Paddle through peat swamps where herons hunt and pitcher plants thrive

Approximate by-car estimates from the four metros most visitors come from.
Round out the day. Coffee on the way, where to eat, what else to see.
Claim Dunham Bay Marsh to manage hours, photos, particulars, and respond to inquiries — all from your Desk.

Hardiness zones across the Park, deer-resistant perennials that actually work, native trees worth planting, the vegetables that produce in a 90-day growing season, a beginner's first-year garden, and a region-by-region zone atlas.

Common loons on every paddleable lake, moose at dusk in the Whitney Wilderness, bald eagles year-round on open water, and the spring warbler migration through Bloomingdale Bog — where to look, when to look, and what to bring.
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