The Raquette River threads through the northwest Adirondacks for 146 miles — one of the longest free-flowing rivers in New York and the original highway for guides, loggers, and anyone moving between the string of lakes from Blue Mountain to Tupper to the St. Regents chain. Near Tupper Lake it's wide, slow, and canoeable — classic flatwater paddling with marshy edges, occasional beaver work, and the kind of long sight lines that make it easy to forget you're inland. The river has shaped settlement patterns in the park since before the park existed; most of the northwest hamlets grew up where the Raquette met a road or another waterway. Put in at Axton Landing or the state launch in Tupper for a full day on the water with almost no portages.
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