Medical Alert: Adirondacks
By Stephen Leon
April 17, 2022
Health care providers explore options to meet needs of park population that includes growing number of part-time residents
Stephen Leon
Stephen Leon, a freelancer based in Albany, covers various issues for Adirondack Explorer. Previously, he was editor and publisher of the Albany alternative newsweekly Metroland. He can be reached at [email protected].
Airbnb reports Adirondack hosts reap record revenue
By Stephen Leon
March 13, 2022
Even as accommodations shift, hotel stays are up, too.
The year without Canadians in the Adirondacks
By Stephen Leon
February 12, 2021
New York's wildland trails, ski slopes and lakes have had less of a Canadian accent with the border closed during a pandemic year.
Adirondack ski areas prepare for a COVID-altered season
By Stephen Leon
November 23, 2020
State guidelines, and the pandemic itself, have affected Adirondack resorts in mostly similar ways, with some variations.
Closures hit some Adirondack businesses hard, but there are silver linings
By Stephen Leon
August 14, 2020
By Stephen Leon When Enchanted Forest Water Safari officials announced the park would not open for the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 crisis, Old Forge area residents and businesses feared that the closure would hit the local economy hard. There would be lost summer jobs, lost sales-tax revenue, and lost business income that would…
A bicyclist’s Adirondack dream
By Stephen Leon
March 4, 2020
“There is such great energy around trails in all parts of the state,” says Robin Dropkin, executive director of Parks & Trails New York.
More Adirondack rails considered for recreation
By Stephen Leon
December 17, 2019
Mixed-use rail trails (bicycling, running, snowmobiling, etc.) have grown in popularity in recent years and are seen as a likely eventual outcome for at least part of the corridor.
Depleted Adirondack Park board leaves questions about management
By Stephen Leon
November 5, 2019
While environmentalists worry about the consequences of a weakened Adirondack Park Agency board, critics suggest that Gov. Andrew Cuomo likes it this way. “The governor is perfectly satisfied with the current status quo."
Ticks spread in the Adirondacks as funding to study them shrinks
By Stephen Leon
August 19, 2019
Soon after he began taking Lee Ann Sporn’s introductory biology course in the fall of 2018, Bryan confided to his professor that he frequently felt sick, as though he was fighting a mysterious disease that wouldn’t go away. A freshman at Paul Smith’s College near Saranac Lake, Bryan sometimes asked during class to be excused, which Sporn later learned was due to fevers that would spike without warning.