outdoor recreation

I have never been a long-distance hiker. Planning and commitment are needed to tackle the big peaks, and if I’m hones...

The Adirondack Park is dotted with lakefront beaches that have it all: playgrounds, lifeguards and, often, big crowds...

I first fell in love with the Adirondacks through the watercolors of Winslow Homer.

Early last spring, in places where it was normally loud, it was often nearly silent. There was little automobile traf...

For Mike and Marci Phinney, the lake house they built in Hague isn’t just their dream home, it’s a showcase of the ki...

On the evening of January 2nd, Lake Placid attorney Amy Quinn took her dogs for a walk in her quiet neighborhood behi...

"Adirondackers are made of sterner stuff,” my mother would say as we passed Glens Falls, heading up to visit family. ...

The boy slipped. There had been a big rain the night before, so the river was higher than usual. In an instant he was...

Who says you need train tracks to have a train? Though Inlet’s nearest railroad—the Raquette Lake Railway, which ran ...

To the Native American Algonquins and Iroquois, this rugged region was slim pickings and hence it came down through h...

Nathan Farb says he has only recently figured out how to finish the multimedia “vision quest project” that he’s been ...

"I tell my kids,” says Tom Conrad, “that when smelt are running, it’s a signal of spring, when everything wakes up af...