What’s Next for Tupper Lake

What’s Next for Tupper Lake

by | Feb 24, 2022 | April 2022

Illustration by Mark Wilson On a recent trip to Park Street in Tupper Lake, I scored a tasty panini, a pretty pair of beaded earrings, fringed leather booties and a box of maple chaga tea. I’m from the North Country and I’ve known Tupper since I was a kid, but you can...
The Ultimate Staycation

The Ultimate Staycation

by | Oct 29, 2019 | June 2012

For these Tupper Lakers, camp is just across the street Throughout 2019, in celebration of Adirondack Life’s 50th anniversary, we’re sharing an article per week from our archives—one for each year since 1970. In 2012, Lisa Foderaro reported on a community of Tupper...
Ben & Helen

Ben & Helen

by | Jun 27, 2019 | June 2019

Ben Gocker’s From the Library Window   An unlikely collaboration between a young artist and the painter he never met The whitewashed walls in Ben Gocker’s Tupper Lake studio are hung with large wooden boards, each almost entirely covered in small sticks and scrap...
Hammersong

Hammersong

by | Jan 11, 2018 | At Home in the Adirondacks 2017

Photograph by Yvonne Albinowski   Blacksmith Dan King forges works of art for camp or castle Tupper Lake Junction’s Wheel Inn had a reputation—dive bar, strip joint, a place where patrons went at it hammer and tongs on many nights. For the past 10 years master...
Good, Dirty Fun

Good, Dirty Fun

by | Jan 6, 2015 | Guide to the Great Outdoors 2014

For a time—about a minute—I led Tupper Lake’s second annual Warrior Run, held at the Big Tupper Ski Area. A lanky guy danced past at the first ob­stacle, then a man with “RENEGADE” tattooed across his solar plexus. By that time, though, blood roared through my ears and...