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AdirondackRegion.com is a content business with directories wrapped around it. The directories — lodging, dining, pursuits, mercantile — exist so visitors can find real places run by real people. The editorial — the guides, the seasonal almanac, the history pages — exists because a directory without a voice is just a phone book, and the Park deserves better than a phone book.

We’re honest about scale. We’re a small operation, not a magazine staff, and we use AI tooling for first-pass extraction and editorial cleanup. A human reviews everything before it’s published. When AI-assisted text appears, it has been read, edited, and stood behind by a person.

Display type is set in Fraunces— Undercase Type’s revival of soft-modern slab influences, drawn with an opsz axis that lets headlines breathe at large sizes and tighten at small ones. Body copy is set in Newsreader, a low-contrast text face built for sustained reading on screen. The mono small-caps you see on kickers and metadata is JetBrains Mono, tracked wide. Section marks are typeset Cinzel capitals; the occasional handwritten flourish is Caveat.

The palette is paper, ochre, oxblood, ink, and moss — a field-guide stack borrowed from old USGS plates and the Adirondack 46ers patches. Numerals are old-style. Pages structure with a § kicker, a Fraunces title, an italic subtitle, and a mono-cap dateline.

Ornaments — the diamond, the leaf, the small flourishes — appear sparingly as section dividers. Maps lean on a custom Leaflet style tuned to match the paper substrate.

We don’t use the names of real people on listings without consent. Regulations cite the source — usually NYSDEC, the Adirondack Park Agency, or the High Peaks Wilderness unit management plan — and link out. Sponsorship and affiliate relationships will be disclosed visibly when they exist; today none do.

Corrections are welcome and free. hello@adirondackregion.com for anything that’s wrong.

With gratitude to the institutions whose work the directory stands on: Adirondack 46ers, Inc., the Adirondack Mountain Club, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the Adirondack Park Agency. We are not affiliated with any of them; we just stand on their data and their decades of stewardship.

And to Verplanck Colvin, who walked it first.

Edited and built by Scott Opiela, with AI tooling as named above. Based out of Northville, NY, on the southern flank of the Park.