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Bridging the outdoors: Diversifying the Adirondack experience

By David Escobar

Adirondack museum provides beginner’s guide to outdoor recreation at “Xperience for All” event

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Preserving history: Inside Adirondack Experience’s treasure trove

By Zachary Matson

Step into history with the Adirondack Experience museum's special collections

Museum digitizing renowned Adirondack guideboat collection

By Zachary Matson

The Adirondack Experience Museum is creating a digital archive of the uniquely Adirondack vessel.

Long Lake Town Historian Hallie Bond stands in green grass with mountains behind her.

How will climate change alter history?

By Chloe Bennett

An Adirondack historian is researching how climate change will affect culture and history for a statewide climate assessment 

Aerial shot of bobsled run at Mount Van Hoevenberg

A scarred landscape

By Philip Terrie

Aerial photographs document humans' impact on Adirondacks

mushrooms

Mushroom mania hits the Adirondacks

By Tim Rowland

Adirondack Experience museum celebrates wild world of fungi and the healing properties of mushrooms.

Rainstorm viewed from Cascade Mountain.

Across the Adirondacks, tourism was up and down this summer

By Mike DeSocio

The good, the bad and the ugly of this past summer season

Christine Campeau

Christine Campeau: Passionate about Adirondack history

By Tracy Ormsbee

Christine Campeau, school programs manager at the Adirondack Experience for more than two decades teaches children about Adirondack history.

Adirondack Experience, Wild Center partner on diversity efforts

By Gwendolyn Craig

The two Adirondack attractions are working to make the area more welcoming for people of color.

Grants to help diversify two Adirondack destinations

By Gwendolyn Craig

The Adirondack Experience museum in Blue Mountain Lake and The Wild Center in Tupper Lake are partnering in the research project and training program. It will involve diversity training for staff and interviews with people of color in focus groups that are within driving distance from the destinations.

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