Study finds Adirondack emergency calls up 54 percent per ranger
By Tim Rowland
November 15, 2019
With more users and more acreage incorporated into the park over the decade, the increase is understandable. But services haven’t kept pace.
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Tim Rowland is a columnist, author and outdoors writer living in Jay.
By Tim Rowland
November 15, 2019
With more users and more acreage incorporated into the park over the decade, the increase is understandable. But services haven’t kept pace.
By Tim Rowland
November 15, 2019
In total, about 90 acres of woods were consumed by the fire, and bordering the burn site are acres and acres of what you would expect: spruce, fir, white pine, maple, birch—but no aspen.
By Tim Rowland
September 20, 2019
The project is taking longer than expected because of the care needed to construct a trail that must stand up to so many hikers.
By Tim Rowland
September 17, 2019
The new trailhead will be located at the Keene end of Cascade Lakes and traverse the face of Pitchoff to access Balanced Rocks, an interesting collection of boulders on a bare nose of Pitchoff’s western flank.
By Tim Rowland
September 16, 2019
Parch Pond offers a picturesque lake framed by mountains and evergreens and a diverse forest east of the Northway and west of Port Henry on Ensign Pond Road. It was once renowned for its 200-foot cliffs that offered challenging rock climbing.
By Tim Rowland
September 3, 2019
Boaters who are still on the lake after the gates have been closed will have access to a call box that will connect them with DEC emergency dispatch for instructions on opening the gate.
By Tim Rowland
August 27, 2019
Concerns of overuse on Lower Saranac are being raised following completion of a bigger state boat launch at Second Pond and the proposed expansion of the Saranac Lake Marina. By a circuitous route, motorboats can also access Lower Saranac from as far away as the marinas on Lake Flower in the Village of Saranac Lake, not to mention from a number of private camps.
By Tim Rowland
August 23, 2019
The campers didn’t have the place all to themselves, but safe to say they had plenty of elbow room. The RV section was full, but RVers, while welcome, are not quite the demographic that the state has bet $25 million on, in hopes that adventurers will use Frontier Town as a base camp for hikes in regional outdoor attractions, such as the Hammond Pond Wild Forest, Boreas Ponds, the Essex Chain and the Upper Works trailhead to the High Peaks.
By Tim Rowland
August 20, 2019
Both parties to a controversial and consequential forest-use lawsuit have appealed a July 3 court ruling that says construction of a planned network of snowmobile trails in the east-central Adirondacks is illegal because it would mow down too many trees on the forest preserve.
By Tim Rowland
July 10, 2019
Adirondack Foothills Trails Alliance has been working to increase mountain biking opportunities in Old Forge, including on the slopes of McCauley Mountain.