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Nature & Environment
Staying Grounded: The Ecological and Emotional Benefits of Green Burial
To the question often posed by evangelical preachers “do you know where you’ll spend eternity?” an increasing number of Adirondackers have an answer: in a pine forest by a wetland meadow in Essex.
How Fireflies Find Love with the Language of Light
Yellow-green sparks shimmer among shadowy pines overlooking my backyard on the outskirts of Saranac Lake. It is a warm June evening, and the humid air hangs heavy with the fragrance of mountain maple blossoms and last year’s fallen pine needles. More such flashes beckon from the quiet tree-lined road that circles Moody Pond, and I follow.
A Closer Look at Adirondack Bats
Why should you care about bats? “Besides the fact they’re cute,” says bat researcher Vanessa Rojas, assistant professor at SUNY-ESF Ranger School, based in Wanakena, “the ecosystem services they provide are critical. Bats eat forest defoliators and other pests. I can’t imagine what our forests would be like without them.”
Travel
Best Adirondack Roadtrips for Fall
Outings to some of the prettiest easy-access places in the park, plus hikes, history, pit stops and more.
War Cannon Spirits: A New Adirondack Eatery & Tasting Room
The abandoned Agway in Crown Point, originally an early-19th-century mill, has been dusted off and beautifully restored as War Cannon Spirits, a coffeehouse/bar, restaurant, event space and tasting room for the operation’s farm-to-glass whiskey.
Favorite Adirondack Campgrounds
Choosing a favorite is highly subjective—often a happy blend of personal preferences and family traditions—but what follows is a sampling of likely contenders.
Recreation
Zen and the Art of Discomfort
The Northville-Placid Trail cuts through the West Canada Lakes Wilderness in some of the most remote terrain in the Adirondacks. It’s about as far from human hubbub as one can get. But one rainy July morning, it’s anything but placid.
A Cut Above: Trail-Builder Luke Peduzzi
“I ’m not good with a paintbrush or anything, but I’m pretty good with an excavator.” Luke Peduzzi cracked the beer he’d tucked in his coat pocket at the trailhead. It hissed, shaken from the pedal up. His loyal trail companion, Spud, patrolled the area for the perfect stick—a useful job site skill.
Swede Mountain: A Southern Adirondack Fire-Tower Scramble
More than a century after it was erected on top of Swede Mountain, in Hague, the metal fire tower still stands. In its early days the only folks who scaled it were up there to spot fires; now anyone can climb the 47-foot tower’s seven flights to take in stunning views of Gore and Crane Mountains and Brant Lake.
History
Harold and Faith: A New Exhibit Spotlights Weston’s Muse
His artwork was called “rough and rugged as hickory stumps,” like the man himself. Friends described her as “soft, gentle, like the moss in the woods.” It was a match made in heaven, or at least the Adirondacks.
Billion-Dollar Bet: New York’s Risky Investment in Lake Placid’s Olympic Dream
When I go to see Mike Pratt at the Olympic Regional Development Authority’s glossy new state-funded headquarters in Lake Placid, the first thing he does is spread out photographs of Olympic sports venues and stadiums in Beijing, Berlin and Sarajevo that lie abandoned and in ruins. His message is plain: This almost happened here.
Adirondack Cryptids: Champy vs. Bigfoot
A Captain Crum, who navigated the lake in 1819, told a tale of an almost 200-foot-long black monster with three teeth and a star on its forehead. Sandra Mansi, the photographer behind a hotly debated 1977 image of “Champy,” compared the creature to a dinosaur.
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April 2026
The Wildlife Issue! A peek inside the secret lives of Adirondack moose by Jeff Nadler, wildlife portraits by Pamela Underhill Karaz, an opossum search party led by best-selling author Kristin Kimball, plus loons, turtles, turkeys, chipmunks, coyotes and more.
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