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Dannemora escape story reads like fiction

Writer Michael Benson tells the story of the 2015 prison breakout in the northern Adirondacks by inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt in his book, "Escape from Dannemora."
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Saranac Lake 6ers guide

The Adirondack Explorer staff hiked the Saranac Lake 6 and prepared this guide containing trail descriptions, maps, and photographs.
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Alewives pose challenge to Champlain salmon restoration

Scientists are trying to understand how salmon are impacted by alewives, an invasive species that has become a main source of food for salmon, a keystone predator that eats smaller fish.
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Rebirth of a fire tower

Thanks to volunteers, Stillwater Mountain’s 47-foot edifice is open to the public again. By JOHN PITARRESI Cathy Percy stands in the cabin of the Stillwater Mountain Fire Tower. She and her visitors are forty-seven feet above the footings set into the bedrock at the top of the mountain. The peak itself is a modest 2,264 feet above sea level, but from the cabin, you can see forever in every direction. Outrageous. Jaw-dropping. Stunning. It is difficult to find just the right words to describe the...
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Beds at Boreas Ponds?

Environmental groups are alarmed by a conceptual proposal floated by the Cuomo administration to establish lodging facilities near Boreas Ponds—in an area they believe should be classified as “untrammeled” Wilderness.
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Boreas dam drives debate

The Adirondack Park Agency held public hearings on Boreas Ponds at eight different locations around the state in November and December. Hundreds of people spoke, offering a potpourri of opinions. But one constant was a sea of green T-shirts bearing the slogan “I Want Wilderness.”
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From the Archives: An Interview with George Canon

Former Explorer Publisher Dick Beamish interviewed longtime Newcomb supervisor George Canon for the November/December 2007 issue. Canon died Sunday, June 18, at the age of 77.
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Biking the Barns in the Champlain Valley

Champlain Valley’s many quiet, country roads are ideal for cycling, so it’s no surprise that the Adirondack North Country Association chose the region for a new annual event called Bike the Barns.
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History Of The Stillwater Mt. Fire Tower

The famed surveyor Verplanck Colvin built the first tower on Stillwater Mountain way back in 1882. The hole that once… >>More

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Welcome To View Finder

This winter, I visited the St. Regis Fire Tower in Paul Smiths with Doug Fitzgerald, who is co-chair of Friends… >>More

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Alewives pose challenge to Champlain salmon restoration

Scientists are trying to understand how salmon are impacted by alewives, an invasive species that has become a main source… >>More



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Hull Falls In Slow Motion

Hull Falls is on the East Branch of the Ausable River in Keene in the Adirondack Park. >>More

News Releases

ADK Updates Northville-Placid Trail Guidebook

Lake George, N.Y.—ADK has released the fifth edition of its Adirondack Mountain Club Northville-Placid Trail in time for the Northville-Placid… >>More

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Lake George ‘Million Dollar Beach’ Closed Again by E coli

After several false starts this season, Million Dollar Beach in Lake George is closed again — just two weeks from… >>More

Outdoor Recreation

Rangers Find Boy Missing Overnight Near Schroon Lake

Forest Rangers found a 10-year-old Sunday morning in good health after he went missing overnight in the Pharaoh Lake Wilderness.… >>More

Environment

Glamping at Boreas Ponds: Not Your Grandfather’s Cabin Tents

At the Boreas Ponds classification hearing held in Albany on December 7, 2016, Ross Whaley reminded the audience that public… >>More

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Pollinator Project Passing Out 30,000 Wildflower Seed Packets

ADKAction has spent the past three years helping spread the word out about the importance of milkweed. With the distribution… >>More

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Beds at Boreas Ponds?

Environmental groups are alarmed by a conceptual proposal floated by the Cuomo administration to establish lodging facilities near Boreas Ponds—in an area they believe should be classified as “untrammeled” Wilderness.
Read more

From the Archives: An Interview with George Canon

Former Explorer Publisher Dick Beamish interviewed longtime Newcomb supervisor George Canon for the November/December 2007 issue. Canon died Sunday, June 18, at the age of 77.
Read more

Biking the Barns in the Champlain Valley

Champlain Valley’s many quiet, country roads are ideal for cycling, so it’s no surprise that the Adirondack North Country Association chose the region for a new annual event called Bike the Barns.
Read more

Dannemora escape story reads like fiction

Writer Michael Benson tells the story of the 2015 prison breakout in the northern Adirondacks by inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt in his book, "Escape from Dannemora."
Read more

Saranac Lake 6ers guide

The Adirondack Explorer staff hiked the Saranac Lake 6 and prepared this guide containing trail descriptions, maps, and photographs.
Read more

Boreas dam drives debate

The Adirondack Park Agency held public hearings on Boreas Ponds at eight different locations around the state in November and December. Hundreds of people spoke, offering a potpourri of opinions. But one constant was a sea of green T-shirts bearing the slogan “I Want Wilderness.”
Read more

Alewives pose challenge to Champlain salmon restoration

Scientists are trying to understand how salmon are impacted by alewives, an invasive species that has become a main source of food for salmon, a keystone predator that eats smaller fish.
Read more

Rebirth of a fire tower

Thanks to volunteers, Stillwater Mountain’s 47-foot edifice is open to the public again. By JOHN PITARRESI Cathy Percy stands in the cabin of the Stillwater Mountain Fire Tower. She and her visitors are forty-seven feet above the footings set into the bedrock at the top of the mountain. The peak itself is a modest 2,264 feet above sea level, but from the cabin, you can see forever in every direction. Outrageous. Jaw-dropping. Stunning. It is difficult to find just the right words to describe the...
Read more