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
Adirondack Experience acquires pistol of legendary Long Laker Mitchell Sabattis
‘A Wild Idea’
Book tells the story of the at-times contentious campaign to create the Adirondack Park Agency
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.
Advancing Adirondack inclusivity at John Brown Farm
The state’s early embrace of freedom fighters’ legacy is something to build upon, said Adirondack Diversity Initiative Director Nicole Hylton-Patterson.
Before “forever wild”
Putnam photo collection from 1800s shows frontier lives and clear-cut forests
Safe spaces
Camps home in on diversity as part of overall mission
Leaning in to save lean-tos
A group of volunteers have “rescued” 99 shelters, and plan the 100th this weekend with a relocation from the shore of Lake Colden in the High Peaks Wilderness.
Retiring school mascots
By Mike DeSocio
Adirondack schools move away from Native American team names, although some remain unchanged.