Every way to be outside in the Park — hiking, paddling, fishing, climbing, cycling, rafting, golf, the snow sports, plus scenic drives, beaches, wildlife watching, and the touring-by-car classics.
A complete planning guide: difficulty by peak, common combo days, seasonal realities, and a sortable, filterable table of every summit.
Brook trout streams that have been here since the glaciers, lake trout in two hundred feet of cold water, smallmouth on every shoreline — and a sortable atlas of every major water in the Park.
The major crags, the rock and ice seasons, the Chapel Pond and Cascade Pass corridor, Poke-O-Moonshine, and the small but serious community that has been climbing here for sixty years.
The Adirondack Rail Trail end-to-end, road riding the Olympic and High Peaks loops, mountain biking at Whiteface and Hardy Road, the Black Fly Challenge gravel race, the Cycle Adirondacks tour, and a sortable atlas of the major rides in the Park.
The Hudson Gorge out of Indian Lake — the Whitewater Capital of New York — the Class V Moose River in spring, the family-friendly Sacandaga, and the dam-release schedule that keeps the rivers running from April through October.
134 miles of central Adirondack wilderness from Northville to Lake Placid — the oldest long-distance trail east of the Mississippi, established by the Adirondack Mountain Club in 1922. Section-by-section breakdown, every lean-to plotted, resupply logistics, the eight-to-twelve-day thru-hike, and a working atlas of the route.
The largest wilderness canoe area in the Northeast, the Saranac Chain, the Fulton Chain, the Raquette River, the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, and the 90-Miler — plus a sortable atlas of major paddleable waters.
Thirty-two courses inside the Blue Line — Donald Ross's Sagamore on Lake George, Seymour Dunn's Saranac Inn, the Lake Placid Club's three courses, Craig Wood, Whiteface Club, and the working municipal nines of the Park.
The Olympic Byway, the Roosevelt-Marcy Highway, the Adirondack Trail — eight named state byways and twelve regional drives, with the overlooks, roadside attractions, and foliage windows that make them.
Every swimmable body of water in the Park — public beaches, state campground beaches, swimming holes, waterfalls, and the small ponds nobody writes about. From Million Dollar Beach to Moffitt.
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.
Trail rides through wilderness, multi-day pack trips, and the historic dude ranches of the southern Adirondacks — from a one-hour ride at Sentinel View to a week in the saddle at Ridin'-Hy.
