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In line with Governor Cuomo’s directive for New York State to PAUSE amidst the COVID19 pandemic and Adirondack Mountain Club Executive Director Michael Barrett’s urging to”hike locally and individually,” the Northville Placid Trail Challenge is suspended until further notice. This action was taken by the ADK Schenectady Chapter, which manages the challenge. While the trail remains…
A “glamping” destination—that is a fancy form of camping—is coming to Lake Luzerne. The Adirondack Park Agency has approved Huttopia's application.
A number of businesses are closing in response to the coronavirus, and Hotel Saranac is the latest. The hotel hopes to reopen later in the year.
By Melissa Hart
Saranac Lake resident Gail Brill wanted to do something to help out during the COVID-19 crisis. So she put her creative skills to work, mobilizing a team of sewers scattered around the Tri-lakes area. They’ve been keeping busy sewing and distributing cloth masks to frontline workers around the region. Read about it in the Adirondack…
Recent Forest Ranger Actions From the Department of Environmental Conservation: Town of Indian LakeHamilton CountyWilderness Rescue: On April 4 at 6:20 p.m., Hamilton County 911 transferred a call to DEC’s Ray Brook Dispatch reporting a family of hikers from Johnstown took the wrong trail while visiting Rock Lake in the Blue Mountain Wild Forest area. Dispatch…
Michael Barrett talks about his new role as the executive director of the Adirondack Mountain Club, and what's next for the organization.
New York is undergoing its third Breeding Bird Atlas, a five-year citizen science project that helps track our avian neighbors across the state.
By Mike Lynch
The state Department of Environmental Conservation offered recommendations for using trailhead registers during the COVID-19 outbreak.
A clause in the legislation allows Robert Mujica, the state budget director, to kill the bond act before it heads to a public vote if the current economic tailspin means conditions aren't right this fall.
By Tim Rowland
By Tim Rowland The timing of his tenure as Region 5 director for the Department of Environmental Conservation is not lost on Robert Stegemann. “I came in with Hurricane Irene and I’m going out with the coronavirus,” he said. But in between it was quite a run, a decade that is likely to be noted…