by Niki Kourofsky | May 9, 2019 | Travel
photograph by Daesha Devón Harris An Adirondack landmark gets a stylish update This 14-acre spread perched on Fourth Lake between Old Forge and Inlet has been welcoming guests since 1896—first as Camp Onondaga, then as various iterations of the North Woods Inn....
by Tamara Wilm Johnson | Feb 28, 2019 | February 2019, Travel
photograph by Carrie Marie Burr Northville’s Finn-tastic ski resort In Fall 2013, my boyfriend, Keith, and I arrived at Lapland Lake Nordic Vacation Center in the southern Adirondacks for the first time. We were greeted by a black-and-white cat, Little...
by Olivia Dwyer | Jan 3, 2019 | At Home in the Adirondacks 2018
photograph by Carrie Marie Burr A million-dollar renovation transforms a Piseco Lake inn The Irondequoit Inn sits on a small rise at Piseco Lake’s northern end. Eight wooden steps lead from hillside to front porch. When I arrive for my first visit on a fall...
by Niki Kourofsky | Sep 20, 2018 | August 2018, Travel
More than a century of family and fun at The Waldheim on Big Moose Lake Big Moose Lake was nowhere near the path of totality for the Great American Eclipse. But the group that gathered at the Waldheim during 2017’s touchstone event surely wouldn’t have traded places...
by Kenneth Aaron | Jul 18, 2018 | June 2018, Travel
Postcard courtesy of the Saranac Lake Free Library The return of a landmark Lore has it there are ghosts at Hotel Saranac. But if you’re trying to get in touch with the past at the hotel, you don’t need a team of paranormal investigators. You just need to take...
by Olivia Dwyer | Nov 9, 2017 | At Home in the Adirondacks 2017
New Life for a historic High Peaks Inn Below Sentinel Mountain’s jagged profile on Keene’s northern border, where Limekiln Road meets Alstead Hill Road, there’s a farmhouse painted the color of freshly churned butter. The surrounding acreage has...
by Annie Stoltie | Nov 25, 2013 | December 2013
Photograph courtesy of The Point At the end of twisty Beaverwood Road, The Point’s twiggy gate swings open. You’re told, “This is your camp. You’re the Rockefellers.” And it feels that way: the champagne placed in your hand as you tour the Upper Saranac Lake...