Deer Mountain rises to 2,201 feet in the northeastern Adirondacks, offering a short climb with open ledges near the summit. The trail from Route 3 runs 1.5 miles one-way — modest effort, solid views of the High Peaks and Dix Range.
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Sunrise from the col, a cairn at the summit, the trail in shoulder-season snow. Your camera roll, our archive.
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What to do, where to stay, and what's reopening across the Park as the snow melts and the calendar fills.
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.
Camps, cabins, and lakefront — what to know about Park-region real estate, financing a second home, taxes and STAR, lakefront vs. mountain vs. in-town, and the surprises a generalist agent won't flag.
