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6,101 mi mapped
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76
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§ Trip essentials
Getting here
Routes, airports, and the drive in
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§ The field guides
23 guides
Family & Special Interest
Adirondack Summer Camps
a parent's field guide.
Overnight, day, and trip camps in the Park — the camp belt, choosing the right fit, costs and financial aid, ACA accreditation, and the questions every parent should ask before they commit.
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Outdoor & Touring
The Adirondack 46 High Peaks Guide
from first summit to all 46.
A complete planning guide: difficulty by peak, common combo days, seasonal realities, and a sortable, filterable table of every summit.
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Outdoor & Touring
Fishing in the Adirondacks
the complete field guide.
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.
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Outdoor & Touring
Rock & Ice Climbing the Adirondacks
a focused field guide.
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.
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Outdoor & Touring
Cycling & Mountain Biking
the complete field guide.
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.
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Outdoor & Touring
Whitewater Rafting the Adirondacks
the complete field guide.
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.
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Outdoor & Touring
The Northville–Lake Placid Trail
the complete thru-hike field guide.
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.
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Outdoor & Touring
Paddling & Kayaking the Adirondacks
the complete field guide.
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.
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Outdoor & Touring
Golf in the Adirondacks
the complete field guide.
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.
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Family & Special Interest
Father's Day in the Adirondacks
the complete field guide.
Bass-harvest opener Saturday, Father's Day Sunday — seaplane rides, the Whiteface auto road, easy summit hikes, Lake George cruises, Olympic sites, a Great Camp tour, and the Park's best steakhouses. Three weekend itineraries to stitch it together.
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Events & Festivals
4th of July in the Adirondacks
the complete field guide.
The 250th Independence Day, a Saturday on the calendar, fireworks over every lake, hometown parades in every hamlet — and a region-by-region atlas of every show, parade, and lakefront celebration across the Park.
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Real Estate
Buying an Adirondack Vacation Home
the complete buyer's guide.
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.
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Practical
Adirondack Gardening
the complete field guide.
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.
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Family & Special Interest
The Adirondacks with kids — every age.
A trip designed for the whole family — toddlers to teens — that everyone will actually enjoy. Family resorts, beaches, easy hikes, rainy-day saves, and a sortable atlas of every kid-friendly thing in the Park.
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Family & Special Interest
Weddings
in the mountains.
Lakefront lodges, mountain chapels, Great Camps, and barn venues — plus the coordinators, photographers, and officiants who know the region.
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Outdoor & Touring
Top Scenic Drives
the complete field guide.
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.
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Outdoor & Touring
Adirondack Beaches & Swimming Holes
the complete field guide.
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.
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Outdoor & Touring
Wildlife Watching
loons, moose, eagles, and the warbler migration.
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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Outdoor & Touring
Horseback Riding in the Adirondacks
the complete field guide.
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.
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History & Heritage
Adirondack History
the complete field guide.
From Champlain in 1609 to today's Forest Preserve. Interactive timeline of 22 load-bearing events across exploration, the Great Camps, the cure cottages, Forever Wild, the Olympic Games, and the conservation arc that built the largest publicly-protected area in the contiguous United States.
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Practical
An Accessible Adirondacks
the complete field guide.
DEC Universal Access trails, John Dillon Park, the adaptive sports programs at Whiteface and Mt. Van Hoevenberg, the visitor centers that work for every body — and a region-by-region atlas of verified-accessible places across the Park.
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Practical
Getting to the Adirondacks
the complete arrival guide.
Five gateway airports, the Amtrak Adirondack line, the I-87 Northway corridor, drive times from every major city in the Northeast, weather realities by season — and an interactive atlas of every way into the Park.
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Seasonal
Spring 2026
What to do, where to stay, and what's reopening across the Park as the snow melts and the calendar fills.
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