Adirondack Life photography contest

Pitchoff Mountain, nine miles east of Lake Placid, has two distinct personalities.

Last spring, six paddlers representing three Haudenosaunee nations—two Mohawks from Akwesasne, two Oneidas and two On...

When I told my 16-year-old daughter I was going on a seven-or-so-mile round-trip hike alone last September, she acted...

I learned about the state-run campsites on the islands peppering Lake George, which—for $28 a night—allow us commoner...

By the time I reached the first climb of the Over Easy Mountain Bike Route, the whole canopy bowed with the weight of...

Kora offers time-travel to the Gilded Age. You no longer have to ring a bell for service, but somehow, someone there ...

I went searching for the ghosts of Hope Falls while unboxing some old books last year in my Maryland basement, partic...

Scott van Laer, a recently retired Department of Environmental Conservation forest ranger, knows a thing or two about...

The clear pools dotting Gill Brook are popular places to cool off on the way to or from other hot spots in the Adiron...

There are a half-dozen summits known as the Saranac Six scattered among the lakes of the northern Adirondacks. Each t...

On a rainy night in May 1945, at age 48, Quintal died unexpectedly on the northern shore of the Upper Hudson River, n...

To be sure, there is perhaps no better place to see peregrines strut their stuff than in the Adirondacks.