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Mitch Lee: Adirondack Storyteller

By Janet Reynolds

Native Adirondacker cut his teeth telling tall tales from Inlet and beyond

Woods biking to county line monument

In search of a hidden marker

By Tom French

Marker on Herkimer-St. Lawrence county line proves tough one to locate

Remembering an Adirondack legend

By Tim Rowland

Richard Persico led the Adirondack Park Agency through its tumultuous early years

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A bushwhack worthy of a naval hero

By Tim Rowland

Macdonough Mountain lives up to greatness for which it is named.

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Inspired by nature

By Holly Riddle

In 50 years as a working artist, Barney Bellinger has elevated the Adirondacks arts scene.

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More than a parking lot, Upper Works is an experience in itself

By Tim Rowland

A trip down Tahawus road provides peak into Adirondack history, as well as serving as southern High Peaks gateway

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Relic of a revered guide

By Philip Terrie

Adirondack Experience acquires pistol of legendary Long Laker Mitchell Sabattis

Clarence Petty helps a legislative fact-finding team make dinner over a campfire in 1961.

‘A Wild Idea’

By Adirondack Explorer

Book tells the story of the at-times contentious campaign to create the Adirondack Park Agency

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Mountainous obsessions: Verplanck Colvin and his amateur biographer

By James Odato

One man was a self-taught Adirondack surveyor who would have a mountain named after him. The other was his nearly unknown biographer.

Upper Works parking, a High Peaks gateway, gets makeover

By Mike Lynch

Hikers looking to access the High Peaks from the south will be greeted with a new entrance and parking lot this summer.

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