The Adirondack Forest Preserve as defined by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation: "The Adirondack Mountains of northeastern New York are home to the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, a patchwork of public and private lands protected under state law. More than 2.6 million acres within the park are owned and managed by the state. New York's Constitution states that these public lands in the Adirondack Park must never be developed and "...shall be forever kept as wild forest lands." There are twenty-five Wild Forest areas with 1.3 million acres and seventeen Wilderness areas with 1.1 million acres. In designated primitive areas no motorized vehicles may be used. See the Adirondack Council for additional explanation.
New York counties within the park boundary are: Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, St. Lawrence, and Warren. See the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's Region 5 and Region 6 State Lands. Adirondack, an Iroquois word for the Algonquin tribes, was first applied to describe the area by geologist Ebenezer Emmons when he surveyed the region in 1836-1840. Use the GuideStar Grant Explorer to locate non-profits in the Adiorndack region.
- Adirondack Cabin (2005) - By Robbin Obomsawin
- Adirondack Camps: Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950 (2000) - By Craig A. Gilborn
- Adirondack Furniture and the Rustic Tradition (2000) - By Craig A. Gilborn
- Adirondack Home (2005) - By Ralph R. Kylloe
- Adirondack Style (1998) - By Ann S. O'Leary. You can search inside this book at Amazon.
- Cabin Fever (1998) - By Rachel Carley
- Cabins and Camps (2002) - By Ralph R. Kylloe. You can search inside this book at Amazon.
- Camps in the Woods (1931) - By Augustus D. Shepard with a foreword by Robert W. Chambers; compiled and edited by R.W. Sexton. Illustrations from original drawings prepared in the office of Mr. Shepard, and from photographs by John Wallace Gillies, Architectural Book Publishing Co., [c1931]
- Durant: the Fortunes and Woodland Camps of a Family in the Adirondacks (1981) - By Craig Gilborn
- Gardens Adirondack Style (2005) - By Janet Loughrey
- Great Camps of the Adirondacks (2003) - By Harvey H. Kaiser
- Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks: The Architecture of a Summer Paradise, 1850-1950 - By Bryant F. Tolles, University Press of New England, 2003.
- Rustic Cabin: Design & Architecture (2003) - By Ralph R. Kylloe
- Rustic Furniture Companion : Traditions, Techniques and Inspirations (1996) - By Daniel Mack
- Rustic Revisited: Innovative Design for Cabin, Camp And Lodge (2006) - By Ann Stillman O'Leary
- Abiding Branches - Rustic Furnishings by Anto Parseghian, King Ferry, New York. (315-364-7982)
- Adirondack Museum Rustic Fair - Blue Mountain Lake. Held annually at the Adirondack Museum the first weekend after Labor Day.
- Adirondack Rustic Creations - David Daby, Vermontville, New York (518-891-2557)
- Adirondack Rustic Furnishings - Phil Kellogg, South Glen Falls, New York (518-792-0017)
- Adirondack Rustics Gallery - Barry & Matthew Gregson, Schroon Lake, New York (518 532-0020)
- Adirondack Trading Post - William Betrus, Saranac (518-293-1240)
- Bald Mountain Rustics - Steve Bowers, Keene, New York (518-576-9116)
- Bookman Rustic Furniture - Russ DeFonce, Long Lake (518-624-6015)
- Don Moss Rustic Furniture
- George Jaques Rustic Furniture - Keene Valley, New York (518-576-2214)
- Gone Wild Creations - Antler chandeliers created by Brant G. Davis, Ellicottville, New York (716-699-6300)
- Jason Henderson - Contemporary rustic furniture. Bolton Landing, New York.
- Major Pieces - Jay Dawson, Saranac Lake, New York (518-891-5075)
- Meet the Masters of North Country Folklife - Profile of Tom Phillips, rustic furniture maker (04/06/04). North Country Public Radio, Project of TAUNY (Traditional Arts in Upstate New York).
- Pete Schoonmaker - Gloversville, New York (518-725-4521). Makes a very handsome Adirondack Westport chair in teak-oiled mahogany ($525).
- Ralph Kylloe Rustic Design Gallery - Lake George. Kylloe is an authority on the Indiana Hickory Furniture Movement and is a designer for the Old Hickory Furniture Company in Shelbyville, Indiana.
- Red Truck Clay Works - Located in Chestertown (518-494- 2074) and Blue Mountain Lake (518-352-7611)
- Rustic Cottage - Jeffersonville
- Rustic Homestead - Tom Welch, Minerva, New York (518-251-4038)
- Rustic Show - Danbury, CT. With list of participating artists
- Sampson Bog Studio - Barney Bellinger, Mayfield (518-661-6563). Bellinger will be presenting a lecture on November 15th for the Doyle+Design series at Doyle New York: "Founded by furniture artist Barney Bellinger, Sampson Bog Studio is more than a rustic furniture manufacturer. It is an art studio where bark, twigs and natural materials are gathered into the hands of an individual inspired by the romance and mystery of logging trails, wildlife refuges, fly fishing sites, and the Great Camps of the Adirondacks. Mr. Bellinger's understanding of various woods is part book-learned and part inherited wisdom from a grandfather who worked in lumber camps in the early 1900s and spent cherished time in later years sharing secrets of the woods. Furniture created by Mr. Bellinger has been exhibited at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, the Adirondack Museum, and the Ralph Kylloe Gallery, and appears in the permanent collections of the Orvis Company and the Smithsonian Institution."
- Saranac Hollow Woodworking - Saranac. Owner Hal Moore makes Furniture and sells flooring, doors and lumber.
- Robert Stump Studios
- Thomas W. Brady Furniture Maker - Bolton Landing, New York (518-644-9801)
- Tom Nicholas Custom Woodwork - Schuyler Falls
- Traditional Arts in Upstate New York
- Trout Pond Rustics - Eric Gulbrandsen, Schroon Lake
- William R. Gleaves Woodworking - Northville (518-863-6927)
- Youngs Studio & Gallery - Jay. Sue Burdick Young and Terry Young.
- Adirondack Attic - Andy Flynn "writes a newspaper column, "Adirondack Attic," which runs weekly in five northern New York newspapers. It features stories about artifacts from the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y." Todd Moe talks with Andy Flynn. in New Book Unveils Adirondack Attic Treasures, NCPR, June 08, 2004 (7:04 minutes) and in Adirondack Attic 4, NCPR, July 27, 2007 (5:05).
- Adirondack Museum Antiques Show - Blue Mountain Lake
- Blanchard's Auction Service - Potsdam
- Cherry Gallery - Damariscotta, Maine. "Specializing in quality rustic antiques."
- Follensby Park - Near Tupper Lake
- Hot auction at Follensby Park sells hundreds of antiques - By Heather Sackett, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, August 27, 2007. "The entire contents of the White Birches, the great camp lodge in historic Follensby Park, are now scattered among hundreds of buyers from all over the world....The White Birches lodge was built in 1913 by the Barbour family, and according to Blanchard, since John McCormick bought the property in 1952, the interior of the camp has remained exactly the same as it looked in the brochure put out the year he purchased it."
- Follensby Great Camp contents auctioned - By Kim Smith Dedam, Press Republican, August 26, 2007. "Eight miles and 45 minutes past the auction site, White Birches lodge presides over the five-mile length of Follensby Pond in a 14,500 acre private "park." It is one of the most untouched places on earth.
When they first walked through the door, Blanchard said, it was like stepping back 80 years in time. Nothing had ever been moved."
- Maine Antique Digest
- Old Forge Antique Show & Sale - July 26 & 27, 2008. Sponsored by the Arts Guild of Old Forge (315-369-6411).
- Summer Antiques - Mark Wilcox, Lake Placid.
- Adirondack Design Associates - Saranac Lake architectural firm specializes in the Adirondack style. (Michael L. Bird, A.I.A.)
- Amstutz Woodworking - Upper Jay. Timberframe Architecture.
- Argus Architecture & Preservation - Troy. See their Adirondack Projects
- Bear Creek Carpentry - Mini cabins, small cabins and camping cabins, many available in a pre-fab package.
- Bullock Log Homes - New Lowell, Ontario, Canada
- Crawford & Stearns - Syracuse
- Nils Edward Luderowski Architect - Keene Valley
- SD Atelier Architecture L.L.C. - Saratoga Springs.
- Thru the Woods - The Adirondack Lean-to Company - Wilmington
- Unique Woodworks - Rustic furniture sold by Jeannie and Kevin Ridgeway, Cleveland, New York (315·675·3680)
- Adirondack Architectural Heritage (AARCH) - Has archives of articles by Lee Manchester written for Lake Placid News and Adirondack Life and Past Issues of AARCH Newsletters.
- Santanoni: A Japanese Retreat in the Rustic Adirondacks - By Lee Manchester, Lake Placid News, October 31, 2003.
- Schroon Lake: A Quiet Adirondack Retreat - By Lee Manchester, Lake Placid News, September 5, 2003.
- Visiting historic Placid Lake - By Lee Manchester, Lake Placid News, September 13, 2002. "AARCH takes guests on tour of two classic lake camps."
- The resurrection of Wellscroft by Lee Manchester, Adirondack Life, September/October 2002. "Remote century-old Adirondack manor house, twice abandoned, is slowly being restored by latest owners."
- Historic Willsboro Point - Story and photos by Lee Manchester, Lake Placid News, September 17, 2004. Describes Flat Rock Camp, "the only Adirondack Great Camp still standing on Lake Champlain", Scragwood, Snore House, Old Elm,
- by Lee Manchester, Lake Placid News, August 15, 2000. "This laid-back, isolated Adirondack Great Camp retreat is a haven for dogs and dog lovers on the shores of Placid Lake."
- A Walk Through Historic Keeseville - Words and pictures by Lee Manchester, Lake Placid News, October 8, 2004. With photograph of the very handsome Richard Keese II House, 1760 Main Street (circa 1823).
- The Bridges of Au Sable Valley - By Lee Manchester, Lake Placid News, August 15, 2003.
- Branch & Callanan - Contractor
- William Coulter (1865-1907) - Moss Ledge, Pinebrook, Knollwood, Bull Point Camp, Walter Camp, Prospect Point, Sekon Lodge and Eagle Island on Upper Saranac Lake, Camp Joyland on Lake Placid
- Kirtland Kelsey Cutter (1860-1939)
- Davis, McGrath & Shepard
- George Deis & Son - Contractor
- William G. Distin (d. 1970) - Wonundra, Minnowbrook
- William West Durant (1850-1934) - Camp Pine Knot, Camp Uncas, Sagamore Lodge, Kamp Kill Kare
- W. J. Hammond - Saratoga Springs contractor
- Fred Hess of Old Forge - Contractor
- Benjamin A. Muncil (1867-1930) - Builder - Built Camp Topridge on Upper St. Regis Lake for cereal heiress Margorie Merriweather Post (Brighton, Franklin County). Mrs. Post owned the camp from 1920 to 1973. For additional informaiton on Topridge, see Great Camps, below.
- Augustus D. Shepard (1869-1955) - Designed camps for the Adirondack League Club
- Robert Robertson - Architect (Camp Santanoni)
- Robert F. Stephenson - Architect (Longwood on Spitfire Lake)
- Max Westoff (1870-1954)
- William Sidney Wicks (1854-1919)
Note: Harvey Kaiser's Great Camps of the Adirondacks (2003) is searchable at Amazon.com. (Look for "search inside")
- An Iconic Look in High Demand by Bethany Lyttle, New York Times, February 29, 2008. "...Builders and architects have revived the style, making it possible to purchase a brand new Adirondack-style home, or to remodel and winterize one of the originals with attention to historic detail."
- The Adirondack Camp in American Architecture - Information collected for National Register of Historic Places nominations. 52 p. document by Wesley Haynes, National Park Service, March, 2000. Goes into considerable detail and has an extensive bibliography.
- Out-Twigging the Neighbors; In the Adirondacks, Great Camps Are Sprouting Again by Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, October 23, 1997.
- Albright Camp - Wilmurt Lake. Designed by Green and Wicks, Buffalo
- Boquet Lodge
- Bluff Point - Raquette Lake. Built for Robert Collier
- Camp Fairview - Osprey Island
- Cobblestone - Spitfire Lake, Upper St. Regis. Built for George H. Earle Jr., the father of a governor of Pennsylvania
- Dart Trail - On Beaver Lake, in Lewis County, about 20 miles NE of Lowville (off of the Stillwater Road) in the Town of Watson.
Built by John H. Patterson, founder of National Cash Register. Currently for sale by owner.
- Eagle Island Camp - Saranac Inn
- Echo Camp - Raquette Lake. Owned by Phineas Lounsbury, former Governor of Connecticut
- Katia - Upper St. Regis. Owned by George Earle of Philadelphia
- Kill Kare - Garvan
- Kildare
- Knollwood (1900) - Upper Saranac Lake. Designed by William Coulter for club members (Louise Marshall, Daniel Guggenheim, Elias Ashiel, George Blumanthal, Abram N. Stein and Max Nathan) and built by Branch & Callanan of Saranac Lake.
- Litchfield Chateau (Park) - Southeast of Tupper Lake. Edward Litchfield
- Longwood (1906) - Spitfire Lake. Designed by Robert F. Stephenson
- Minnowbrook (1949) - Blue Mountain Lake. Designed by William Distin
- Moss Ledge - Saranac Inn. Designed by William Coulter
- Nehasane - Built for William Seward Webb
- North Point (1902) - Raquette Lake. Designed by Cutter and Malmgren, Spokane
- Pinebrook - Deseigned by William Coulter for Governor Morton
- Pine Knot - Raquette Lake. Designed by William West Durant
- Pine Tree Point Camp - Upper St. Regis Lake. Constructed by Japanese craftsmen for Frederick W. Vanderbilt family.
- Pratt Camp - Little Moose Lake. Designed by Green and Wicks, Buffalo
- Prospect Point Camp - Saranac Inn
- Sagamore Lodge (1897) - Raquette Lake. Designed by William West Durant
- Santanoni (1893) - Newcomb Lake. Pruyn
- Sekon Lodge (smae as Fish Rock Camp?) - Upper Saranac Lake. Designed by William Coulter for Isaac N. Seligman. See Elijah James Dunn 's Public Gallery for The Guest Book of Fish Rock Camp. 1905-1915. Many of the guests created drawings: Photo 43 and Photo 50. See also Upper Saranac Lake's Fish Rock Camp and Jacob Riis, Adirondack Almanack, September 1, 2009,
The Seligman Scandal, Antisemitism in Saratoga Springs, Adirondack Almanack, September 02, 2009, A Sensation at Saratoga subtitled: New Rules for the Grand Union. No Jews to Be Admitted. Mr. Seligman, the Banker, and His Family Sent Away. His Letter to Mr. Hilton. Gathering of Mr. Seligman's Friends. An Indignation. Meeting to be Held. Judge Hilton's Statement, New York Times, June 19, 1877.
- Three Star Camp - Designed by Davis, McGrath, and Shepard and built for William A. Read on Little Simon Pond near Tupper Lake in 1906.
- Topridge - Built on Upper St. Regis Lake by Benjamin A. Muncil (1867-1930) for cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post. Originally known as Camp Hutridge. Located on Spitfire Lake, in the town of Brighton, Franklin County. Mrs. Post owned the camp from 1920 to 1973. She left it to the State of New York and it was sold it at public auction in 1985 to New Jersey businessman Roger Jakubowski for $911,000. In 1994 it was sold for $975,000. It is currently owned by Texas real estate magnate Harlan Crow, son of Trammell Crow, founder of the Trammel Crow Company which is merging with CB Richard Ellis. (See More Than a Chip Off the Building Block by Allen R. Myerson, New York Times, December 1, 1996 for a short biography of Harlan Crow. ) Architect Richard Augustus Giegengack, who died in 2007, worked on the "restoration, preservation and enhancement" of Topridge. "Mr. Giegengack worked to stay true to the Adirondack style of rustic architecture as he renovated or rebuilt buildings and designed new ones. As described in the January-February 2007 issue of Veranda magazine, he painstakingly rebuilt several architecturally significant structures, including the Honeymoon Cabin and adjacent Honeymoon Bridge, 10 guest cabins, a new boathouse with room for six boats and an open-air chapel. He also designed a treehouse to be used as guest quarters and a whimsical thatched structure called Hagrid's Hut, named for the character in the Harry Potter books." (Richard Giegengack; Designed Prominent D.C. Buildings by Joe Holley, Washington Post, January 17, 2007). Photographs of Topridge by Stan Rumbough can be seen at Portfolios.com.
- Millionaire's Retreat in Adirondacks, Now Owned by State, Facing Insecure Future - By Harold Faber, New York Times, June 5, 1978
- Luxury Camp in the Adirondacks Up for Sale - By Harold Faber, New York Times, August 19, 1984.
- State, Citing Cost of Upkeep, Plans to Sell Mountain Camp - By Harold Faber, New York Times, March 24, 1985
- State Finds No Buyer For Mountain Camp - New York Times, April 28, 1985. "New York State has failed to sell Camp Topridge at a public auction here. Although three prospective buyers showed up at the auction this week, there were no bids when the lavish, rustic retreat in the Adirondacks was put up for sale at a minimum price of $900,000."
- State Sells Its Lavish Camp in Adirondacks for $911,000 - By Harold Faber, New York Times, August 1, 1985. "The purchaser, Roger Jakubowski, 42 years old, of Ocean City, N.J., describing himself as "a hot-dog salesman," said he owned nine restuarants, two motels, several arcades and amusement parlors, a supermarket and a plant that bottles spring water."
- 'Great Camp' in Adirondacks in Passing into Private Hands - By Harold Faber, New York Times, November 14, 1985.
- Out-Twigging the Neighbors; In the Adirondacks, Great Camps Are Sprouting Again by Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, October 23, 1997; and Adirondack Charm: A Touch of Topridge, in the Winter 2001 Sequel which describes Adirondack-style lanterns designed by Dallas artisan Jim Guy for Topridge donated to Paul Smith's College.
- You can search inside the book for Topridge in Harvey Kaiser's Great Camps of the Adirondacks (2003) at Amazon.com. There are photographs of Topridge on pages 208 (dock), 210 (boathouse), 215 (details of dacha), 230 (landscaping).
- Ralph R. Kylloe devotes a chapter (profusely illustrated) to Topridge in his Adirondack Home (2005).
- Another useful source is Google Books where you can seach within the text of millions of books. Try searching for Topridge in American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post by Nancy Rubin.
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- Uncas (1893) - Raquette Lake (Mohegan Lake?). Designed by William West Durant for J. P. Morgan
- Wenonah Lodge - Built for Julius Bache
- Wild Air (Wildair) - Regis. Built in 1892 for Whitelaw Reid, publisher of the New York Herald-Tribune.
- Wonundra (1930) - Upper Saranac Lake. Designed by William Distin
- Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) - Library of Congress collection of measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Search by keyword or browse by subject or geographic location. For example, there are 75 black and white photographs of the Lake Placid Club taken by photographer Edward Hueber in July 1989 and there are over 60 pages of supplementary material on the history of the club, founded in 1895 by Melvil Dewey. Examples:
- Balcony, Forest Lobby, looking east at walls and staircase
- View southeast, north and west facade of Forest Towers
- View northeast, west facade of Lake Forest (original Forest Cottage structure incorporated into renamed structure)
- View north, south and east facade of Lake Forest (original Forest Cottage structure incorporated into renamed structure)
- View southeast, west facade of Lake Forest (original Forest Cottage structure incorporated into renamed structure).
- (The Lake Placid Club filed for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1984 and in 1988 sold its property to to Daedalus, USF& G and Guinness PLC. The new resort, called Gleneagles, was short-lived, and following a series of fires was purchased in 1996 by Placid Gold LLC for 4.7 million. It is now known as the Lake Placid Club Resort. See the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks' An Adirondack Chronology, compiled by Gary Chilson.) See also Preservation League v. Lake Placid Land Corporation - No. 92-CV-148 (N.D.N.Y. Feb. 9, 1993). "Individuals and historic preservation organizations brought this action against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), successor to the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC), to prevent the demolition of the historic Lake Placid Club. In November 1992, plaintiffs won a temporary restraining order preventing a developer from demolishing the club pending the court's hearing on a preliminary injunction. (Advisory Council on Historic Preservation).
- Society of Architectural Historians - Published A Historical Bibliography of the Built Environment in the Adirondack Region of New York State, compiled by Richard Longstreth, 1996, revised 9 May 2009.
- Useful web-based resources for locating Adirondack art and artists include:
- Getty Union List of Artist Names
- Getty Provenance Databases
- SIRIS-Smithsonian Institution Research Information System - Use the following subject headings: Landscape - New York, Landscape -- Mountain -- Adirondack Mountains
- National Portrait Gallery Portrait Search
- Artcyclopedia
- Library of Congress Authorities
- Archives of American Art - Smithsonian Institution. You can search and retrieve a number of Adirondack-related items including transcripts of interviews with Lewis Iselin ("We had a camp in the Adirondacks up at the North Woods Club") and Anna Hyatt Huntington ("Yes, we had about 10,000 acres up to the Adirondacks").
- Adirondack Artists Guild
- Wayman Adams (1883-1959) - He established the Old Mill Art School, Elizabethtown, NY
- John Dodgson Barrow (1824-1906)
- Jossey Bilan (1913 - ) - Keene. Taught at Wayman Adams Art School (Old Mill Art School) in Elizabethtown, New York (established in 1935) , before opening his own school in Keene.
- Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919)
- Paul Bransom (1885-) - Known as the "dean of American animal artists", he had a studio on Canada Lake in Fulton County. See Biographical sketch by by Donald Tuttle. "Paul Bransom first came to the Adirondacks in 1908, when the 22-year-old artist and his wife rented a cottage on Canada Lake for the summer. Next door was the summer camp of Clare Victor Dwiggens, one of America's greatest comic strip artists and creator of the popular panel "School Days."..."In 1917 the prospering Bransom built his own Canada Lake camp near that of the artist Louis Sarka, and year after year since then he has spent his summers in the Adirondacks, gathering drawings and backgrounds which he translated into finished drawings in the winters of New York."
- John Casilear (1811 -1893)
- Samuel Colman (Coleman?) (1832-1920)
- David Coughtry
- Marsha Donahue
- Jeanne Dupre - Constantia (315-623-9033)
- Asher B. Durand (1796-1886)
- John Fitch
- James Whitney Fosburgh (1910-1978)
- Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880)
- James McDonald Hart (1828-1891)
- Sandra Hildreth - Artist specializing in Adirondack landscapes in watercolor and oil. Hildreth is a retired art teacher, and was an Adjunct Professor at St. Lawrence University in Canton. Among her works are:
- High Rock, on the Oswegatchie (2006)
- View from the Bloomingdale Road (2005)
- Madawasca Pond IV (2004)
- Bog River Rocks V (2004)
- Barnum Brook, September (2003)
- South Inlet, Raquette Lake (2003)
- St. Regis Mountain from Jenkins (2002)
- Near Tupper Lake (2002)
- Madawasca Pond (2000)
- Aye Beautiful, Truly Beautiful (Lake Colden) (1999)
- Bakers Clearing, North Woods Club (1999), an oil painting based on a "visit to the North Woods Club, near Minerva, NY, where Winslow Homer spent many of his summers. This same view was painted by Eliphalet Terry, the artist who brought Homer to Bakers Farm in 1859."
- Barnum Pond III (1998)
See also:
- Forever Wild: An Artistic Exploration of Recently Acquired State Lands
- A Personal Exploration of 19th C. & Contemporary Landscape Painting of the Adirondacks and St. Lawrence Valley Region
- A Contemporary View of Historic Landscapes of the Adirondacks & St. Lawrence Valley.
- Winslow Homer (1836-1910) - David Tatham recounts: "On June 1910, at age 74, Winslow Homer made the last of his journeys to the Adirondacks. Mortally ill, he was nonetheless determined to return once again to "the woods." By this he meant the North Woods Club, deep in the forest in the Essex County township of Minerva. He had first traveled to this site forty years earlier when it was little more than a boarding house on a farm cleared from the wilderness. He had returned many times, always to fish and often to paint. In the late 1880s, soon after the club had purchased the farm and its property -- five thousand acres of woodland with seven lakes and ponds -- it welcomed Homer to membership. The boarding house became a clubhouse, a dining hall was added, and in time a few members built cottages nearby. Still, the site remained a clearing in wilderness." From the Illustrated exhibition catalogue for the exhibition Winslow Homer: Masterworks from the Adirondacks, June 21 - September 6, 2004, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY. See Tatham's book Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks. Some of Homer's Adirondack paintings include
- Adirondack Lake (1879)
- An October Day (1889)
- Casting in the Falls (1889) - Owned by the Dallas Museum of Art
- The Red Canoe (1889)
- Log Jam, the Hudson River at Blue Ledge (circa 1889) - Owned by the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach., Florida.
- A Quiet Pool on a Sunny Day (1889) -
- Sunrise, Fishing in the Adirondacks (1889) -
- Mink Pond (1891) - Owned by Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. (Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, IAP 20780001)
- The North Woods (Playing Him) (1894) - Owned by the Currier Museum of Art,
- The Blue Boat (1892) - Owned by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,
- Hudson River Logging (1892) owned by the Corcoran Gallery of Art
- A Brook Trout (1892),
- The Rapids, Hudson River, Adirondacks (1894) - Owned by The Art Institute of Chicago
- The Bass (1900) - Owned by Arizona State University Art Museum. See Links to all works by Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art.
- Charles Cromwell Ingham (1796-1863)
- Margaret Kays
- John F. Kensett (1816 - 1871)
- Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) - See The view from Asgaard : Rockwell Kent’s Adirondack legacy (2000) and Rockwell Kent Papers at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. " Kent purchased Asgaard Farm at AuSable Forks in 1927.
- Pat Kirmer - Keene
- Alexander Lawrie (1828-1917)
- Jonas Lie (1880-1940) - Norwegian-born painter and textile designer lived in Saranac Lake from 1923 to 1925. He was commissioned by Francis P. Garvan to paint Kamp Kill Kare in 1928. A search in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art retrieves a photograph by Peter A. Juley & Son of Lie holding paint brushes in front of a painting (Digital ID: 2537).
A catalog - Jonas Lie (1880-1940) by William H. Gerdts and Carol Lowrey - was created for a exhibition at the Ira Spanierman Gallery, held January 12 to February 25, 2006.
The online exhibition provides 47 online images of his works including:
- Main Camp, Kamp Kill Kare, Raquette Lake, February, 1930 - Owned by Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake.
- Chapel, Kamp Kill Kare, Adirondack Mountains, New York
- Road to the Chapel, Kamp Kill Kare, (Raquette Lake, Adirondack Mountains, New York), 1930
- Adirondack Lake
- Adirondacks Winter, ca. 1921-23 - Private collection.
- Northern Hills (New York), 1922
- Barry Lobdell
- Jervis McEntee (1828 - 1891) - Diary, June 12-August 17, 1851. "He writes of his experiences hunting and fishing in Lewis, Herkimer, and Hamilton counties in the New York Adirondacks with his friends Joe and Puffer. They left from Lowville, travelling on the Beaver River, shot deer and pigeons, fished for Salmon, went sketching, jacklighted deer, celebrated the 4th of July in the woods, and were joined by Brainerd. He also writes of the weather, of the many lakes they traversed, of Blue Mountain, and of trips to various towns for milk and food."
- John Marin (1870-1953)
- Homer Dodge Martin (1836-1897)
- Jacques Gerard Milbert - Itineraire Pittoresque du Fleuve Hudson (1828-29).
- David B. Milne (1882-1953) (see his work in Cybermuse)
- Bruce Mitchell - Keene. See Bruce and Annette Mitchell Heritage Gallery , Keene, New York. (518-576-2289) "My favorite view, after hiking them for 38 years, is Spread Eagle and Hopkins. Before these mountains, it was Pyramid -- before that, Colvin or Big Slide -- but then there is Marcy or Haystack and on and on. My favorite short hikes are Baxter and Jo."
- Robert Monior
- John Adams Parker
- Arthur Parton (1842-1914)
- Frederick Perkins
- Mark Potter (1929-95) - See his work in the Bridgeman Art Library
- Levi Wells Prentice (1851-1935). See Nature staged : the landscape and still life paintings of Levi Wells Prentice (1993)
- Frederic Remington (1861-1909) - See The north country art of Frederic Remington: artist in residence
- Joachim Ferdinand Richardt (1819-1895)
- William Trost Richards (1833-1905) - See In search of a national landscape: William Trost Richards and the artists’ Adirondacks, 1850-1870 (2002)
- Frederick Rondel (1826-1892)
- James N. Rosenberg (1874-1970)
- Vry Roussin - Keene
- Vryling Corscaden Roussin (1944-2004)
- Clayton Seagears (New York Conservationist)
- Roswell Morse Shurtleff (1838-1915) - American painter, born on June 13, 1838 in Rindge, New Hampshire and died in New York City. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1857, studied at Lowell Institute in Boston and at the National Academy of Design, in New York, 1863. "For more than thirty years he has had a studio in New York city, and has spent his summers in the Adirondack mountains, the forests of which have been the subjects of his canvases almost entirely of late." (National Cyclopaedia of American Biography by James Terry White, J. T. White company, 1900, Volume X, p. 379). A search in the SIRIS-Smithsonian Institution Research Information System for Shurtleff retrieves over 65 results and providing the names of museums and galleries that own, or have owned, his paintings (Hudson River Museum, National Academy of Design, T. W. Wood Art Gallery).
- James David Smillie (1807-85)
- William James Stillman (1828-1901) - Landscape painter, photographer and journalist. Born in Schenectady, he produced a series of photographs on the Adirondack region in1859. (Getty Union List of Artist Names)
- Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819-1905) - See Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait: artist in the Adirondack (1986)
- Eliphalet Terry (1826-1896)
- Jim Vosburgh
- William Guy Wall - The Hudson River Portfolio (1821-25).
- Harold Weston (1894-1972) - Artist and photographer. See Wild exuberance: Harold Weston’s Adirondack art (2005)
- Nina Winkel - Keene
- Alexander Helwig Wyant (1836-1892) - Painted Adirondack Lake (Lake George) in 1872.
- Adirondack Architectural Heritage (AARCH) - Annual Adirondack Architectural Heritage Awards
- Adirondack Artists' Guild - Saranac Lake
- Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts - Blue Mountain Lake
- Adirondack Photography Institute - Inlet
- Adirondack Theatre Festival - Glens Falls
- Albany Institute of History and Art - Their collection includes Adirondack paintings. See also Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica.
- Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks - Westport
- Blue Mountain Center - "Working community of writers, artists, activists and musicians."
- Bluseed Studios - Saranac Lake. Performance and exhibition center "offers professional visual and performance artists an affordable working and living space for seasonal residencies."
- Depot Theatre - Westport
- Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation
- Hill and Hollow Music - Saranac
- Lake Placid Center for the Arts
- Lake Placid Institute for the Arts and Humanities
- Lake Placid Sinfonietta
- Lower Adirondacks Regional Arts Council - Glens Falls
- New York Council for the Humanities
- New York Foundation for the Arts
- New York State Council on the Arts
- North Country Folklore - Has a Register of Very Special Places
- Norwood Village Green Concert Series
- Pendragon Theatre - Saranac Lake
- St. Lawrence County Arts Council - Potsdam
- Tannery Pond Community Center Association - North Creek
- Traditional Arts in Upstate New York (TAUNY) - Canton
- UpNorth Music
- Adirondack Almanack
- Adirondack Boys
- Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America - You can browse by state or zip code.
- Black Lawrence Press
- Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza - Albany bookstore has a good collection of New York State Regional Books.
- Book Sale Finder: New York - Gives dates and other details about used book sales run by libraries and non-profit groups
- Hope Farm Press - Regional history publisher has over over 2000 books on all regions of New York State.
- Lost Pond Press - Saranac Lake
- North Country Books
- Purple Mountain Press - Hard-to-find books about New York State
- St. Huberts Press
- Syracuse University Press - See Regional Titles
- The Adirondack Atlas: A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park (2004) by Jerry Jenkins and Andy Keal
- Adirondack camps: homes away from home, 1850-1950 by Craig A. Gilborn
- Adirondack Churches: A History of Design and Building (2006) by Sally E. Svenson
- Adirondack Country (1985) by William Chapman White
- The Adirondack Park: A Wildlands Quilt by Barbara McMartin
- The Adirondack Reader (1983) edited and with Introductions by Paul Jamieson.
- Adirondack Vernacular: The Photography of Henry M. Beach (2003) by Robert Bogdan and Henry M. Beach
- The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness (1998) by Paul Schneider
- At the Mercy of the Mountains: True Stories of Survival and Tragedy in New York's Adirondacks
by Peter Bronski, Lyons Press. 2008. See Perils and tragedies of the Adirondacks are recounted by Michael Virtanen, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, March 1, 2008 (Associated Press story). "‘‘Because the Adirondacks were explored so many years ago, there’s been an assumption they’re mellow mountains,’’ Bronski said recently by phone from his home in Boulder, Colo. ‘‘But it’s still a very wild and rugged place, and it breeds misadventures."
- Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks 1998) by Hallie E. Bond
- Camp Chronicles (1964) by Mildred Phelps Stokes Hooker with introd. and notes by Paul F. Jamieson.
- The Extraordinary Adirondack Journey of Clarence Petty: Wilderness Guide, Pilot, and Conservationist by Christopher Angus and Anne Labastille (Syracuse University Press, 2002). See Clarence Petty, Protector of the Adirondacks, Dies at 104 by Dennis Hevisi, New York Times, 5 December 2009. "Into his late 90s, he spoke at public hearings, gave lectures and typed letters to legislators. His greatest fear was that the park would be nibbled away, lot by subdivided lot, and he vigorously opposed the intrusion of motor vehicles."
- Great Camps of the Adirondacks (2003) by Harvey H. Kaiser
- A History of the Adirondacks (1992) by Alfred L. Donaldson
- High Peaks of Essex: The Adirondack Mountains of Orson Schofield Phelps (1992) - You can search inside this book at Amazon.com. Phelps (1817-1905) was a famous Adirondack guide.
- "A Paradise for Boys And Girls": Children's Camps in the Adirondacks (2006)
- Perspectives on the Adirondacks : a thirty-year struggle by people protecting their treasure by Barbara McMartin
- Township 34; a history with digressions, of an Adirondack township in Hamilton County (1962) by Harold K. Hochschild
- Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks (2005) by Bill McKibben
- Wild Exuberance: Harold Weston's Adirondack Art (2005) by Rebecca Foster and Caroline M. Welsh.
There are 42 campgrounds operated by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) in the Adirondack Forest Preserve. Reservations are made through Reserve America 1-800-456-CAMP (1-800-456-2267).
See Forest Preserve Public Campgrounds and Camping in the Adirondack Park.
- Susan Wheeler in her article Adirondack Camping: Top 10 Hidden Gems, in the May 2001 issue of Adirondack Sports and Fitness, recommends:
- Alger Island (315-369-3224)
- Brown Tract Pond Small and scenic (90 sites) in Adirondack Forest Preserve. No motors allowed. (315-354-4412) Sites 22-29 look like they have lovely views, as do 84-87. Canoe rental, but call to find out when it's available as the canoes are brought from off-site by a commercial provider. Has a new 500 boardwalk for canoe portage.
- Cranberry Lake - Open May through October (315 848-2315). Good waterfront sites are 47, 48*, 61, 64, 92, 93, 98, 111, 117*, 118 and 120. (See Reserve America .) From Cranberry Lake you can canoe the Oswegatchie River for 16 miles.
- Eighth Lake (315-354-41200)
- Forked Lake (518-624-6646)
- Lake Durant - This is a small campground with only 61 sites, many of them waterfront with spectacular views of Blue Mountain. There is no electrical hookup so most of the sites are occupied by tents. Best sites: 10, 16, 17, 26*, 28, 30, 32*, 33, 44, 45, 49*, 50, 1, 52, (518-352-797). Although site 20 is very close to the road, and to other campsites which are large enough for RVs, it has two launching sites, one close to the site and another one out on a point with a small rocky sandy beach with some round rocks to sit on and the giant roots of an uprooted tree.
- Luzerne (518-696-2031)
- Sacandaga (518-924-4121)
- Putnam Pond - Ticonderoga (518-585-7280). "Key start off point for hikers trekking into the Pharaoh Lake Wilderness area." Site 47 has a good view of the pond and is close to the foot trail (see map).
- Meacham Lake (518-483-5116). See also Reserve America.
- Adirondack Canoe Classic - Annual three-day 90 mile race from Old Forge to Saranac Lake, held in early September hosted by the Adirondack Watershed Alliance (518-891-2744), the Central Adirondack Association, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. See:
- The 90-Miler
- Paddlers Swarm the Park for 90-Miler - Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 5, 2008. "This year's paddlers will be able to take advantage of a brand new 500-foot Brown's Tract boardwalk constructed this summer. The boardwalk project was led by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation with the assistance of volunteers from the Adirondack Watershed Alliance, Student Conservation Association and The Northern Forest Canoe Trail."
- 90-mile Adirondack Canoe Classic kicks off today - By Phyl Newbeck, Burlington Free Press, September 5, 2008. "Categories are based on the type of boat (single kayak, double kayak, single canoe, guideboat, war canoe, etc.) and age of the racer. In 2007, a two-person kayak had the fastest time with a total of 12:45:38. The last-place finisher (not counting those who were disqualified for not meeting cut-off points in any of the three legs) was a two-person canoe finishing in 23:41:05."
- Adirondack Canoe Classic set for start, North Country Public Radio, September 8, 2006. Martha Foley interviews the race organizer Brian McDonnell about the race.
- 90-Miler Celebrates its 25th Anniversary - By Jacob Resneck, September 6, 2007, WYZY-FM
- South Glens Falls man marks special year in Adirondack canoe race by Paul Post, The Sagatogian, September 5, 2007. "The race has three legs of 35, 30 and 25 miles with Day 1 going through the Fulton Chain of Lakes to Raquette Lake, ending up in Blue Mountain Lake with four carries totaling 3.5 miles. Day 2 takes paddlers the length of Long Lake, followed by a 1.5-mile carry around Raquette Falls, finishing at the Raquette River boat launch east of Tupper Lake village. The final leg covers Upper, Middle and Lower Saranac lakes and ends in Saranac Lake village."
- Adirondack Guide Boat - N. Ferrisburgh, Vermont
- Adirondacks State Park - Dream Itineraries [for canoe trips] - Gorp. "The most popular Adirondack canoe trip begins at Old Forge (Herkimer County) at the foot of the Fulton Chain of Lakes, and runs through various lakes on up through the upper reaches of the Raquette River."
- Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks - By Hallie Bond, Syracuse University Press, 1998.
- Books
- Adirondack Canoe Waters, North Flow - By Paul F. Jamieson,and Donald Morris, Adirondack Mountain Club, 1988 (third edition, paperback). Paul Jamieson was a professor of English at St. Lawrence University and a fine writer. His autobiography, Uneven Ground, was published by Friends of the Owen D. Young Library at St. Lawrence University in 1993.
- Adirondack Canoe Waters, South & West Flow - By Alec Proskine, Adirondack Mountain Club, c1989. Covers Boreas River, Cedar River, East Canada Creek, Fish Creek, Hudson River, Indian River, Kunjamuk River, Moose River, Sacandaga River, Salmon River, Schroon River and West Canada Creek.
- Full Circle: An Adirondack Canoe Route Traces the Return of the Wild - By Bill McKibben, Nature Conservancy Magazine: Summer 2006. McKibben describes his canoe trip through Round Lake, Little Tupper, Shingle Shanty Brook, Lake Lila, Harrington Pond, Clear Pond, Bog Lake and Lows Lake with brothers Jim and Bill Frenette.
- Grasse River Boatworks - John and Gene Newman, Canton, New York (315-386-1363). Now known as GRB Newman Designs.
- Hacker Boat Co., Inc. - Silver Bay
- Hornbeck Boats - Peter Hornbeck, Simon Gardner and Chad Smith, Olmstedville (518 251 2764).
- Lighter Canoes Pave Way to Remote Waterways - New York Times, July 15, 2007. "Builders have revived century-old Adirondack pack canoes, with more outdoor enthusiasts opting for the smaller, lighter boats that they can carry easily to remote lakes, rivers and streams seldom navigated. Craftsmen also expect to make an inroad on kayaks, which have grown popular while canoes have faded."
- Kayaking in Central New York and the Adirondacks: A Pathfinder - A Bibliography of books on kayaking by Barbara Giardina, a librarian an Onondaga County Public Library.
- Kunjamuk River - Off Route 8 near Speculator
- Little Beaver Guideboat Works - Darlington, Pennsylvania
- The Magnificent Obsession of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail - By Paul Schneider, New York Times, September 10, 2006.
- A Narrows Escape: Hubris, Nemesis, and the Kindness of Strangers - Farwell Forrest describes his experience on the Hudson River Gorge.
- New York State Boat Launch Sites
- New water trails in Adirondacks - By Michael Virtanen, San Jose Mercury News, October 18, 2007. "In one balmy morning, you could paddle through fragrant pine, balsam and hardwood forests on the Bog River to reach the confluence of Round Lake Stream, make some headway up each waterway running low in autumn, meet a Canada goose and then the bear, and return to Bog River Falls." "I think it's one of the most beautiful paddles in Adirondacks, really a special experience," Neil Woodworth, a canoeist and executive director of the Adirondack Mountain Club, had said, recommending it. It's a good place to swim, he said, and he'd seen otters there."
- Northern Forest Canoe Trail - Old Forge to Fort Kent, Maine - 740 miles
- Paddling.Net: New York - The Little Tupper Lake trip (8/12/09 to 8/16/09) where there are 30 designated campsites (reachable by water only). There are some nice photographs of the trip (though a bit heavy on the rainbows) including:
- Storm Coming In
- Camp Site #11
- Camp Site #12
- Untitled
- Untitled
See also Mike McCrea's description of his trip on Northeast Paddlers Message Board. He stayed in campsite #7 - "perched on the side of a peninsula, high on a bluff with views of Little Tupper stretching off towards the Antediluvian Mountains and the outlet of Rock Pond...sports two massive stone chimneys, one atop the bluff and one, strangely, at the water's edge with the hearth facing the water."
- Placid Boatworks - Charlie Wilson and Joe Moore (518-524-2949)
- Public Navigation Rights in New York State: Questions and Answers - Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks. Presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the Adirondacks. Sponsored by the Adirondack Research Consortium, May 25-26, 2005, Hilton Hotel, Lake Placid, N.Y (44p. pdf document).
- Reflections from Canoe Country: Paddling the Waters of the Adirondacks and Canada (1999) - By Christopher Angus
- St. Regis Canoe Area (SRCA) - The Seven Carries Route is a nine mile trip and can be accomplished as a day trip. See Wilderness Paddling in the St. Regis Canoe Area by Rich MacDonald, Adirondack Sports & Fitness, August 2001. See also Cruising the St. Regis Canoe Area by Jacob Resneck, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, June 16, 2007.
- Spencer Boatworks - Saranac Lake
- Trips
- Jones Pond Outlet
- Lake Lila
- Little Tupper Lake - Whitney Wilderness Area. Rock Pond, Hardigan Pond
- Long Pond Mountain - St. Regis Wilderness. Long, Turtle and Hoel Ponds
- Oswegatchie - Inlet. (True wilderness canoe experience. Highly recommended! MVA). See photo taken on August 2, 2007.
- Raquette River
- St. Regis Wilderness Canoe Area - Seven Carries Trip
- Vintage Canoe Works - Buffalo
- Wild, Scenic and Recreational Rivers - List provided by the New York State Department of Conservation. (Cedar River, Cold River, Hudson River, Indian River, Kunjamuk River, Opalescent River, Oswegatchie River, Piseco Outlet, Sacandaga River, West Canada Creek, etc.)
- A Paradise for Boys and Girls: Children's Camps in the Adirondacks - Adirondack Museum.
- Adirondack Camp - Glenburnie. On Lake George, this is one of the oldest camps in the Adirondacks.
- Adirondack Woodcraft Camps - Old Forge
- Aldersgate - Brantingham
- Beaver Camp - Lowville
- Brant Lake Camp - Brant Lake
- Camp Baco - Lake Balfour
- Camp Boyhaven - Middle Grove. Boy Scout Camp, Schenectady County and Twin Rivers Councils.
- Camp Chateaugay - Merrill
- Camp Chingachgook - Kattskill Bay, Lake George. Operated by the Capital District YMCA
- Camp Colby -Saranac Lake. Operated by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for youth who are 12 to 14 years old.
- Camp Dudley - Westport. YMCA. "The oldest camp for boys." (See Camp Dudley, the story of the first fifty years, edited by Minott A. Osborn, Huntington Press, 1934)
- Camp Eagle Island - Upper Saranac Lake run by the Girl Scouts of Greater Essex and Hudson Counties. See also Friends of Eagle Island
- Camp Echo Lake - Warrensburg
- Camp Forestcraft - Upper Saranac Lake
- Camp Fowler - Speculator. Operated by the Synod of Albany, Reformed Church in America.
- Camp Gorham - Eagle Bay. Operated by the YMCA of Greater Rochester
- Camp Guggenheim - Lower Saranac Lake. Operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg.
- Camp Jeanne D'Arc - Chateaugay Lake
- Camp Northwood - Remsen
- Camp-of-the-Wood - Speculator. Christian family resort and conference center.
- Camp Owlyout - Dance camp run by Alys Bentley located on Chateaugay Lake.
- Camp Portaferry - Lake Portaferry. Hiawatha Seaway Council, Boy Scouts of America
- Camp Regis - Paul Smith's
- Camp Russell - Woodgate. Operated by Revolutionary Trails Council, Boy Scouts of America.
- Camp Treetops - Lake Placid. Run by the North Country School.
- Camp Turk - Woodgate. Operated by the Grand Lodge of the State of New York.
- Camp Wakpominee - Fort Ann. Twin Rivers Council, Boy Scouts of America
- Camp Walden - Diamond Point.
- Camp Woodland - Constantia. Owned by the Hiawatha Seaway Council
- Camp Woodsmoke - Lake Placid
- Cedarlands Scout Reservation - Long Lake
- Deerfoot Lodge - Speculator. Christian Camp for Boys.
- Double H Ranch - Lake Luzerne. A Hole in the Wall camp. Newman's special camps, started in state, go global, Michael Hill, Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), August 22, 2006.
- Floodwood Mountain Scout Reservation - Altamont. Northern New Jersey Council Boy Scouts of America.
- Forest Lake Camp - Warrensburg.
- Hidden Lake Camp - Lake George. Operated by Girl Scouts, Mohawk Pathways Council
- Long Lake Camp for the Arts - Long Lake.
- Massawepie Scout Camps - Massawepie Lake. Operated by the Otetiana Council (Rochester and Monroe County) of Boy Scouts of America. "3769 acres, with 20 miles of trails, 16 outpost camps, and 8 canoeable lakes and ponds."
- North Country Camps - Keeseville. Consists of Camp Lincoln for boys and Camp Whippoorwill for girls.
- Northern Frontier - North River. Operated by the Christian Service Brigade.
- Oswegatchie Camp
- Pack Forest - Warrensburg. Operated by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for teens who are 15 to 17 years old.
- 4-H Camp Overlook - Mountain View
- 4-H Camp Sacandaga - Speculator. Currently for sale.
- Pack Forest - Warrensburg
- Point O'Pines Camp for Girls - Brant Lake
- Pok-O-MacCready Summer Camp - Willsboro.
- Raquette Lake Camps
- The Ranch - Lake Placid Academy
- Read Scout Reservation - Brant Lake
- Sabattis Scout Reservation - Hiawatha Seaway Council
- Sacandaga Bible Conference - Broadalbin
- Southwoods - Paradox
- Unirondack - Beaver Lake. Unitarian Universalist Camp and retreat Center
- Woodworth Lake Scout Reservation
Note: - A useful for source for the history of private preserves and clubs in the Adirondacks is the Annual Report, Part 2 New York (State) Forest Commission, 1894. A copy owned by the University of Michigan has been digitized and the full-text is available in Google Books. Page 154 provides a list of private preserves. Here is a sample excerpt:
The large territory owned by private clubs should also be taken into consideration. These private preserves contain, in the aggregate, about 940,000 acres, and as their interest are wholly dependent on preservation it would be unnecessary to raise money at present to purchase that area. If, however, the acquisition of their lands should be deemed advisable, their purchase could be deferred, at least, until the remainder of the territory shall have been acquired. One of these private corporations, that of the Adirondack League Club, covering 116,000 acres, has offered through a member of its executive committee to enter into a contract as provided by the law of 1892, in which the State grants exemption from taxes provided the land owner will agree to restrict all timber cutting to certain species and to a minimum diameter of twelve inches on the stump.
- Adirondack League Club - Established in 1890, the club owns over 35,000 (possibly as many as 50,000) acres in the towns of Webb and Ohio, including Bisby Lake, Little Moose Lake, Honnedaga Lake, Sand Lake, Woodhull Lake, Canachagla Lake and over 20 miles of the Middle Branch of the Moose River. For a book on the history of the club, see The Adirondack League Club, 1890-1990, edited and compiled by Edward Comstock, Jr., with Mark C. Webster, Old Forge: Adirondack League Club, c1990. Address: P. O. Box 8, Old Forge, NY 13420 (315-369-3025). Augustus D. Shepard designed many of the club's buildings (see his Camps in the Woods, with Illustrations from original drawings prepared in the office of Mr. Shepard, and from photographs by John Wallace Gillies, published in 1931 by the Architectural Book Publishing Co.)
The ALC was involved in a lawsuit over river access rights. For more information see Adirondack League Club v. Sierra Club, 1998 N.Y. Int. 162 (December 17, 1998) (Cornell Legal Information Institute) and Public Navigation Rights in New York State.
Club property for sale ($4,300,000) on Little Moose Lake: A 'Rustic' Hideaway , TheStreet.com, June 8, 2006. "The Rocky Point property includes a summer lodge totaling 6,100 square feet, which houses full-timbered ceilings, half-timbered walls with bead board paneling and hardwood floors." The property is located on Little Moose Lake and includes a boathouse and dock. You can find out more about the property at Landvest and the New York Times.
- Adirondack Mountain Club - "Non-profit membership organization that protects wild lands and waters through a balanced approach of conservation and advocacy, environmental education, and responsible recreation." Founded in 1922, there are 26 regional chapters. The Laurentian Chapter provides information about the Stone Valley Trail in Colton.
- Seasonal Outings,
- Chapter Outings Schedules
- Adirondak Loj at Heart Lake
- Johns Brook Lodge
- Online store
- Adirondack Mountain Club Records, 1922- . Held by the New York State Library. Provides historical background on the lcub.
- Adirondack Mountain Club Glens Falls-Saratoga Chapter - Has an outings schedule
- Appalachian Mountain Club - New York-North Jersey Chapter - Provides activity schedules/ Has a Canoe and Kayak Committee, Paddle Splashes Newsletter archives and river level information (Ausable, Beaver, Black, East Canada Creek, Grass, Moose, Oswegatchie, Raquette, Sacandaga, Saranac, St. Regis, and West Canada Creek.)
- Ausable Club - St. Huberts. Also known as the Adirondack Mountain Reserve. The club allows public access and parking to the following destinations: Basin Mt, Mt. Skylight, Mt. Marcy, Mt. Haystack, Blake Mt., Mt. Colvin, Nippletop, Dial Mt., Bear Den Mt., Beaver Meadow Falls, Snow Mt., Lower Wolf Jaw, Upper Wolf Jaw , Armstrong, Gothics, Saddleback Mt., Rainbow Falls, Noonmark and Round Mt. Parking lot is off Route 73, opposite the lot for Roaring Brook Trail, and is 5.9 miles north of the intersection of Route 9 and 73 in Underwood.
- Adirondacks Purchase Completes Public Holding of High Peaks Area - by Harold Faber, New York Times, September 6, 1977. "The land is being sold by the Ausable Club, a summer vacation retreat for the well-to-do, for $744,800, or about $80 an acre."
- Beaver River Club
- Bisby Club - Founded in 1878. See The Bisby Club's Resort; Grant Sport in the Woods of Herkimer County. How the Bisby Lakes Were Discovered. Gen. Husted in His Forest Home. Plenty of Fish and Game, New York Times, June 8, 1890. ""One day late in the Fall of 1819, an old hunter and trapper, while paddling on Woodhull Lake, in the northern part of Herkimer County, heard the peculiar cry which the loon utters on the water."
- Brandreth Park - 1851
- Crater Club - Established by John Bird Burnham in 1901
- Gooley Club - Sportsman's Club owns 15,000 acres in southern Essex County, adjacent to the North Woods Club. See map of their holdings
- Kildare
- Lake Placid Club - Created in 1895. Originally known as Placid Park Club. See below for photographs
- Maple Lake Club - 1892
- Morehouse Lake
- Moose Pond Club - Minerva. Annual Report, Part 2 New York (State) Forest Commission, 1894, p. 180.
"Moose Pond Club. This club owns 656 acres in Township 26, Totten and Crossfield Purchase. It includes Lots 44, 45, the northwest corner of 52, and the northeast corner of 53. The land is in the town of Minerva, Essex County. Within this preserve are Moose, Little Trout, and Bissell Ponds.
The officers of the club are: President, William H. Faxon, Chestertown, N.Y.; vice-president, Hon. L. W. Emerson, Warrensburgh, N.Y.; secretary and treasurer, A. H. Thomas, Warrensburgh, N.Y.
The membership of the club is limited to twenty.
Moose Pond has been noted for years for the large size of the speckled or brook trout which abounds in its waters. On the third of August, Mr. A. H. Thomas, of Warrensburgh, N.Y., caught twelve speckled trout in this pond which weighed twenty-nine pounds and fourteen ounces. The smallest weighed one pound eight ounces; the largest one weighed four pounds two ounces. Mr. Thomas states that these twelve trout were not selected from a bit catch; he caught the twelve, and no more, on that day. He caught them on the afternoon of a bright, clear day, using a piece of sunfish for bait, and fishing with his hook in about twenty-five feet of water.
The members have erected a new, comfortably-furnished club-house, twenty-six by thirty-six feet, with a kitchen eighteen by eighteen. The property is in charge of Mr. John Thornton, the gamekeeper."
- Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne Park (Nehasane) Association - Private Preserve. J. Watson Webb's camp, Forest Lodge on Lake Lila. His Adirondack Railroad, built in 1891-1892, ran from Utica to Montreal and opened up the region to tourism. The state acquired Nehasane Park in 1979. The historic Nehasane Train Station still exists.
Gifford Pinchot's Breaking New Ground describes the circumstances behind the publication of his The Adirondack Spruce in 1898. Pinchot had developed a working plan for the management of the forests in Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne Park. This was the first American book on forest management. (You can search within the book at Amazon.com.)
- North Woods Club - Created in 1886 (originally known as the Adirondack Preserve Association), and still in existence. Winslow Homer was a member. (See below for more on his Adirondack paintings)
- Preston Ponds Club - Founded in 1876, in 1877 it became the Adirondack Club and in 1898 the Tahawus Club.
- Putnam Camp - 1876. Sigmund Freud stayed here in September, 1909. See Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam and the Purpose of American Psychology (2006) by George Prochnik. "Of everything I experienced in America, this is probably the strangest," Freud wrote of Putnam Camp.
- Ragged Lake Rod and Gun Club - Belmont. See p. 189, Annual Report, Part 2, New York (State) Forest Commission, 1894 "There are twenty members all of whom, with one exception, reside in Syracuse, N.Y."
- Santa Clara Preserve
- Sumner Park
- Tahawus Club - Earlier known as the Adirondack Club (see Preston Ponds Club)
- Wilmurt Lake (Wilmurt Club) - See A New Fishing Club, New York Times, June 10, 1885.
- Simpson, C. R. The Wilderness in American Capitalism: The Sacralization of Nature. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 5, 4:555-576.
- Underwood Club - Underwood, Route 9, just north of Northway exit 30 (New Russia)
- Adirondack Communities and Conservation Program: Linking Communities and Conservation Inside the Blue Line - By Heidi Kretser. Wildlife Conservation Society Working Paper No. 16, June 2001. This 64 page report (in pdf format) discusses Clifton & Fine in St. Lawrence County, Johnsburg in Warren County, Altamont in Franklin County. There's also an April 2003 Working Paper on All-Terrain Vehicles in the Adirondacks. See also Adirondack Communities and Conservation Program
- Adirondack Council - "Not-for-profit environmental organization that has been working since 1975 to ensure the ecological integrity and wild character of the Adirondack Park." Issues annual State of the Park reports which "detail how the actions of local, state and federal leaders helped or harmed the Adirondack Park throughout the year."
- Adirondack Ecological Center - State University of New York College of Environmental Forestry facility in Newcomb
- Adirondack Ecological Center - State University of New York College of Environmental Forestry facility in Newcomb. Has information on the Huntington Wildlife Forest donated by Archer and Anna Huntington.
- Adirondack History Journal's List of Environmental Organizations Protecting the Adirondacks
- Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies - Has an Index to Abstracts
- Adirondack Lakes Survey Corporation - Inventory more than 1,000 lakes and pond for invasive fish, acidification, and other environmental, geological and biological characteristics
- Adirondack Park Agency - See Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan and 2005 State Land Classification & Reclassification Description.
- Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP)
- Adirondack Research Consortium - Sponsors the Annual Conference on the Adirondacks
- Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks - With
Archived Articles,
An Adirondack Chronology by Gary Chilson, a list of
Oldest and Rarest Books at Adirondack Research Library, information on the
Forest Preserve Initiative, with a list of
units including the Bog River Flow and the Raquette-Boreal Unit.
- Blue Mountain Wild Forest Unit Management Plan - 149 page document created by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, May 1995.
- Adirondacks Are His Life, All 101 Years and Counting - Article about Clarence Petty, now 101 years old. New York Times, January 21, 2007. Ross Whaley, chairman of the Adirondack Park Agency said of Petty: "He is strong of position and opinion, but it's a marvelous combination of philosophy backed by empirical knowledge. Here's a guy who has walked a good share of the Adirondacks and knows enough biology to know where it's resilient and where it's sensitive."
- Au Sable River Association
- Boquet River Association
- Clean Air Regulation Near National Park - Neil Woodworth addressed Environmental Protection Agency officials (starting at 84:00) on behalf of Hikers for Clean Air, April 21, 2001.
- Cranberry Lake Biological Station - Field campus of the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science Forestry at Syracuse.
- For Sale by James Howard Kunstler, New York Times, June 18, 1989, p. SM22. "Developers are grabbing huge chunks of the Adirondacks, and Albany's bumbling has already put 100,000 acres in jeopardy." In 1985 Roger Jakubowski purchasd the Marjorie Merriweather Estate near Saranac Lake for less than a million dollars. In 1988 & 1989 more than 100,000 acres of Adirondack land was sold for private develoment. Pulp and paper companies were the major sellers and one of the major buyers was the Patten Coprporation and Properties of America. In 1988 Henry A. Lassiter purchased 96,000 acres from a timber company (the holdings of the Diamond International Corporation, acquired in a hostile takeonver by Sir James Goldsmith).
- Eddy Foundation - Essex, N.Y., foundation run by Jamie Phillips (518-962-4762). "A fund with $3 million in assets that has bought 27 parcels (about 2,000 acres) in the wildway." (Wild at Heart, by Tracy Frisch, Adirondack Life, September/October 2007).
- Empire State Forest Products Association (ESFPA) - With Members List
- New York State Department of Health Public Water Supply Contact Information - Contact information for
Clinton
Essex,
Franklin,
Fulton,
Hamilton,
Herkimer,
Lewis,
Oneida ,
St. Lawrence,
Warren
counties.
- The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 - "Documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and motion picture footage drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress." Of particular interest is Wild northern scenes; or, Sporting adventures with the rifle and the rod. By S.H. Hammond, New York, Derby & Jackson, 1857. "This work by an Albany attorney and avid sportsman is one of the first significant American statements of the value of wilderness. Celebrating the Adirondack region as a resource for human health, rejuvenation, and recreation, it offers a series of reminiscences demonstrating the pleasures of sport, comradeship, conversation, and natural beauty in a place "which civilization with its improvements and its rush of progress has not yet invaded" (p. vii)." Also in the collection:
The home book of the picturesque: or, American scenery, art, and literature. Comprising a series of essays by Washington Irving, W.C. Bryant, Fenimore Cooper...etc., New-York, G.P. Putnam, 1852; On the duty of governments in the preservation of forests. By Franklin B. Hough, Salem, Salem press, 1873;
- Little Moose Field Station - Cornell
- Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
- Milking Wind, Instead of Cows - OnEarth Podcast 34, July 30, 2007. Interview with Bill Burke, Lewis County dairy farmer.
- New York Flora Atlas (NYFA) - "Joint effort between the New York Flora Association, the New York Natural Heritage Program, the New York State Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and other partner herbaria with the goal to provide users with a comprehensive searchable database of the vascular and non-vascular plants of New York State." Lists plants by county.
- New York League of Conservation Voters
- New York Rivers United
- New York Times - Free archives from 1987. See:
- HAVENS | Essex, N.Y.; Lake Views And Charm Enough For Pataki - By Fred A. Bernstein, New York Times, October 13, 2006.
- Conservancy Buys Large Area of Adirondack Wilderness by Anthony DePalma, June 19, 2007. "The last big piece of privately owned timberland in the Adirondacks — a craggy 161,000-acre wilderness of hardwood forests, 80 mountain peaks, 70 crystal-clear lakes and ponds, undammed rivers, white water gorges and secluded bogs — has been sold for $110 million to the Nature Conservancy, in a move intended to protect the land from future development."
- Northern Forest Alliance
- Tug Hill Plateau
- Oswegatchie Great Forest & Boreal Heritage Reserve
- Northern Forest Center - Concord, New Hampshire
- Notes on the Adirondack Blowdown of July 15th, 1995: Scientific Background, Observations, and Policy Issues - Jerry Jenkins, Wildlife Conservation Society Working Paper Series. See their Adirondacks.
- Open Space Institute - Acquired the 10,000 acre Tahawus Tract in 2003 for $8.5 million from NL Industries. See Historic Tahawus Tract press release from the Adirondack Park Agency.
- Paul Schaefer, 87, Adirondack Expert - Obituary, New York Times, July 21, 1996. See Governor Announces $100,000 For Adirondack Research Library at the Paul Schaefer House , Press Release, June 30, 2005. "Paul Schaefer was one of the leading conservationists of the 20th century, working tirelessly for the protection of his beloved Adirondacks throughout his long and distinguished career," Governor Pataki said."
- Preliminary Guide To Environmental Documentary Sources in New York State - New York State Archives.
- Ranger School - SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Wanakena.
- Residents' Committee to Protect the Adirondacks - Their Library of publications includes:
- The Park Report, October 2004
- APA Must Develop a Clustering Policy for Resource Management and Rurual Use Areas (March 21, 2005)
- Sagamore Institute, Inc. - 9 Kiwassa Road, Saranac Lake NY 12983 Michael Wilson Phone: 518-891-1718 Email: mwilson@northnet.org
- Trust for Public Land - See New York State Projects for information on the Otterbrook property, the Goodman Parcel, and the Blue Mountain Lake parcel.
- Wilderness Society
- Land Acquisition for Tug Hill and Adirondack Park
- Wildlife Conservation Societ: Adirondacks
- Adirondack Birding Festival - June 20-22, 2008 at Long Lake, Inlet, Indian Lake and Speculator. "Hikes, canoe trips, walks, seminars, exhibits and lectures."
- Adirondack Canoe Classic - Annual three-day 90 mile race from Old Forge to Saranac Lake, held in early September hosted by the Adirondack Watershed Alliance (518-891-2744), the Central Adirondack Association, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. See:
- The 90-Miler
- Paddlers Swarm the Park for 90-Miler - Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 5, 2008. "This year's paddlers will be able to take advantage of a brand new 500-foot Brown's Tract boardwalk constructed this summer. The boardwalk project was led by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation with the assistance of volunteers from the Adirondack Watershed Alliance, Student Conservation Association and The Northern Forest Canoe Trail."
- 90-mile Adirondack Canoe Classic kicks off today - By Phyl Newbeck, Burlington Free Press, September 5, 2008. "Categories are based on the type of boat (single kayak, double kayak, single canoe, guideboat, war canoe, etc.) and age of the racer. In 2007, a two-person kayak had the fastest time with a total of 12:45:38. The last-place finisher (not counting those who were disqualified for not meeting cut-off points in any of the three legs) was a two-person canoe finishing in 23:41:05."
- Adirondack Canoe Classic set for start, North Country Public Radio, September 8, 2006. Martha Foley interviews the race organizer Brian McDonnell about the race.
- 90-Miler Celebrates its 25th Anniversary - By Jacob Resneck, September 6, 2007, WYZY-FM
- South Glens Falls man marks special year in Adirondack canoe race by Paul Post, The Sagatogian, September 5, 2007. "The race has three legs of 35, 30 and 25 miles with Day 1 going through the Fulton Chain of Lakes to Raquette Lake, ending up in Blue Mountain Lake with four carries totaling 3.5 miles. Day 2 takes paddlers the length of Long Lake, followed by a 1.5-mile carry around Raquette Falls, finishing at the Raquette River boat launch east of Tupper Lake village. The final leg covers Upper, Middle and Lower Saranac lakes and ends in Saranac Lake village."
- Adirondack Marathon
- Adirondack Museum Rustic Fair - Blue Mountain Lake. Held annually at the Adirondack Museum the first weekend after Labor Day.
- Adirondack Paddlefest
- Ford Ironman Triathlon - Lake Placid
- Great Adirondack Birding Celebration - June 6-8, 2008 at the Adirondack Park Agency Visitor Interpretive Center at Paul Smiths. "Trips, lectures, and Teddy Roosevelt Birding Challenge."
- Great Adirondack Trail Run
- ididaride! Adirondack Bike Tour - 75-mile loop beginning in North Creek or 20-mile option with shuttle to Indian Lake back to North Creek.
- Hendrickson Hatch Fly Fishing Tournament - Malone. May 31 - June 1, 2008.
- Ironman North America - Lake Placid, July 22, 2007.
- Lake Placid Horse Shows
- North Country Community radio (NCPR) Community Calendar
- Norwood Village Green Concert Series
- Old Forge Antique Show & Sale - July 26 & 27, 2008. Sponsored by the Arts Guild of Old Forge (315-369-6411).
- Ranger School Events - Wanakena
- Saranac Lake Winter Carnival
- An Adirondack Chronology - Education Committee, Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks
- Adirondack Community College - Queensbury. The Hill Collection is a "research collection of over 1,400 historical books, serials, pamphlets, letters, clippings, manuscripts and other material. Its primary focus is the regional history of the Glens Falls area (Warren, Washington and Saratoga Counties, the Revolutionary and French and Indian Wars). The material dates from the mid eighteenth century to the present." You can search for these titles in the Library Catalog (advanced search- limit by collection: Hill Collection).
- Adirondack Yesterdays: A Guide to Adirondack Historic Sites - Adirondack Regional Tourism Council
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers - Library of Congress site allows you to "search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." Currently viewable in full-text are newspapers from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia. Among New York Newspapers are New-York tribune, The Evening World, and The Sun.
- Upstate Forests Swept by Flames: Fires Now Threaten Camps and Homes - New-York Tribune, October 20, 1908, page 1. "Boyce's handsome camp at Ingram Lake was destroyed yesterday, together with a large adjoining tract of virgin timber" and "They included fires at Chain Lake and on the road to the North Woods Club about twenty miles from here where from three hundred to four hundred acres are in flames.
- Church of the Good Shepherd - Raquette Lake. There are Photos
- Cornell Library New York State Historical Literature - "Collection of selected monographs, pamphlets and other materials with expired copyrights chosen from from the Cornell Library's extensive collection of New York State Literature."
- Cornell University Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections - Adirondack-related materials include:
Guide to the Anne LaBastille Papers, 1963-2000,
Guide to the New York State College of Forestry Pamphlets, 1898-1933, and
Guide to the Stuart Stein papers, [ca. 1960-1995].
- Early Canadiana Online - "Full text online collection of more than 3,000 books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century. The collection is particularly strong in native studies, travel and exploration, and the history of French Canada."
- Fort Klock Historic Restoration and Indian Castle Church - Provides full text of A History of Herkimer County (1856) by Nathaniel S. Benton (but you'll probably need to enlarge the font in your browser to read it). Other Contents offered at the site include The Life and Adventures of Nat Foster, Trapper and Hunter of the Adirondacks (1897) by A. L. Byron-Curtiss and maps, photographs and articles on the region.
- Franklin B. Hough Papers, 1840-1885 - Finding Aid, New York State Library. Hough lived in Lowville, NY. "His writings were numerous and varied, commencing with a Catalogue of the Plants of Lewis County, New York, in 1846, he soon followed by histories of successively - St. Lawrence, Franklin, Jefferson, and Lewis counties; he was called "the pioneer author of county histories of New York."
- Fuller Albright Papers (1900-1969) Finding Aid - Papers in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Center for the History of Medicine at Harvard University. Fuller Albright (1900-1969) was an endocrinologist whose family summered on Wilmurt Lake. "His childhood and youth were passed in that period of peace, prosperity, and general optimist that came to an end with the outbreak of World War I. His father was an industrialist, art patron and philanthropist. His mother, a Fuller from Lancaster, Massachusetts,, embodied the finest traditions of the New England culture. It was a large, happy, and close-knit family in which parents and children shared much of their lives together, , whether at the great house in Buffalo, the long summer vacations at the family camp in the Adirondacks [Wilmurt Lake], the winter holidays at Jekyll Island, or on the 'Grand Tour' or Europe." "He was never so happy as when casting a trout fly in an Adirondack lake." (p. 7) (From Biographical Memoirs V.48, 1976, National Academy of Sciences.) For more on Wilmurt Lake fishing see A New Fishing Club, New York Times, June 10, 1885. See also “Another early source that demonstrates the ubiquitous presence of brook trout prior to the influence of man is Wallace's Guide to the Adirondacks, by Edwin R. Wallace (1884). In his colorful description of attractions in the Wilmurt Lake and West Canada Lake area (private and public lands which border the Ferris Lake unit), and the Ferris Lake area itself, he states the following, “ From Wilmurt Lake is is 1.5 E. (trail) to Big Rock Lake (1.5 x .75) which affords beautiful scenery, fair trout-fishing and good deer-hunting. Thence it is 2.5 m. N.E. by blind trail over a mountain to Metcalf Lake (2 x 1/3), discovered half a century ago by Col. Metcalf, the chum of Nat. Foster and Jack Wright. As an exception to the general rule, this lake contains no speckled trout.” Ferris Lake Wild Forest Draft Unit Management Plan, October, 2006.) See pages 46-47 in Descriptive guide to the Adirondacks, (land of the thousand lakes) and to Saratoga Springs; Schroon Lake; Lakes Luzerne, George, and Champlain; the Ausable Chasm; the Thousand Islands; Massena Springs; and Trenton Falls, by Edwin R. Wallace, Syracuse, N.Y: W. Gill, 1894 in the New York State Historical Literature collection at Cornell.
- Hamilton County, NY - NY Gen Web. Useful maps, and diverse historical and genealogical information. There are Vital Records and Misc Records which include diaries, deeds, newspaper articles, business directories, interviews and memoirs.
- Glenmore - East Hill of Mt. Hurricane near Keene Valley. Known as the Glenmore Summer School for the Culture Sciences, it was founded by Thomas Davidson (1840-1900) in 1889 or 1899
- Hamilton County, NY - NY Gen Web - Provides a lot of information on the history of Hamilton County. Has a list of pre-1880 Adirondack Hotels gathered by Larry Miller.
- Hamlets of the Adirondacks: History, Preservation and Investment - Roger Trancik, Urban Design Consultant, Ithaca, New York, 1983.
- Harold Hochschild (1892-1981) - Founder of the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake. His papers are owned by the Museum.
- Hotel Ampersand - Saranac Lake. Other historic hotels include Miller's, Saranac Inn, Paul Smith's, Wawbeek Lodge (opened in 1889), Mirror Lake Hotel, Grand View, Stevens House, Martin's, Bartlett's, and Prospect House.
- The Intimate History of the Rise and Fall of the New York State College of Forestry at Cornell University - Memoir by B. [Bernhard] E. Fernow, 13pp., circa 1903. From the Bernhard Eduard Fernow [1851-1923] papers at Cornell University.
Fernow was the Director of the New York State College of Forestry, the founder and editor of Forestry Quarterly and its successor, the Journal of Forestry and the author of Economics of forestry; a reference book for students of political economy and professional and lay students of forestry, , a book in the Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920, a collection in the Library of Congress. See also Guide to the New York State College of Forestry Pamphlets, 1898-1933 and the New York State Archives Environmental History Collection
- Making of America - Digital library of primary sources consists of books and journal volumes between 1850 and 1877. The University of Michigan "collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints" and the Cornell collection "provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles." You can browse periodical titles at Cornell and Michigan. Here are some Adirondack titles:
- The Adirondack; or, Life in the woods (1853) - By Joel Tyler Headley. There is also an 1869 edition.
- Adventures in the wilderness: or, camp-life in the Adirondacks (1869) - By William Henry Harrison Murray (1840-1904)
- Adventures in the wilds of the United States and British American provinces - By Charles Lanman (1819-1895). See Adirondac Mountains (p. 217-228), The Adirondac Hunter (pp. 229-237), and Lake Champlain (pp. 238-243).
- From New York to Montreal by Benjamin Clapp Butler, New York, American News Co., 1873.
- Lake George: its scenes and characteristics, with glimpses of the olden times (1868) - by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) DeCosta (1831-1904).
- Under the trees (1874) - By Samuel Irenæus Prime (Chapter XV, p.92-136, The Adirondacks)
- Trappers of New York : or, a biography of Nicholas Stoner & Nathaniel Foster; together with anecdotes of other celebrated hunters, and some account of Sir William Johnson, and his style of living by Jeptha Root Simms, Albany, J. Munsell, 1850.
- Woods and waters: or, The Saranacs and Racket (1860) - By Alfred Billings Street
You can also browse and search periodical titles at Cornell and Michigan. See all titles below. Selected articles of Adirondack interest include:
- How we met John Brown by R. H. Dana, Jr., The Atlantic monthly, Volume 28, Issue 165, July 1871, pp. 1-9.
Cornell journal titles:
- The American Missionary (1878 - 1901)
- The American Whig Review (1845 - 1852)
- The Atlantic Monthly (1857 - 1901)
- The Bay State Monthly (1884 - 1886)
- The Century (1881 - 1899)
- The Continental Monthly (1862 - 1864)
- The Galaxy (1866 - 1878)
- Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1899)
- The International Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1852)
- The Living Age (1844 - 1900)
- Manufacturer and Builder (1869 - 1894)
- The New-England Magazine (1831 - 1835)
- The New England Magazine (1886 - 1900)
- New Englander (1843 - 1892)
- New Englander (1892)
- The North American Review (1815 - 1900)
- The Old Guard (1863 - 1867)
- Punchinello (1870)
- Putnam's Monthly (1853 - 1870)
- Scientific American (1846 - 1869)
- Scribner's Magazine (1887 - 1896)
- Scribner's Monthly (1870 - 1881)
- The United States Democratic Review (1837 - 1859)
Michigan journal titles:
- American Jewess 1895-1899 - Hosted on behalf of the Jewish Women's Archive. See About The American Jewess Project
- Appleton's (1869-1881) (2 series)
- Catholic World (1865-1901)
- DeBow's (1846-1869 + 1952 index) (3 series)
- Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry (1888-1897) - Hosted on behalf of the Library of Congress
- Journal of the United States Association of Charcoal Iron Workers (1880-1891)
- Ladies Repository (1841-1876) (3 series)
- The Old Guard (1864)
- Overland Monthly (1868-1900) (2 series)
- Princeton Review (1831-1882) (3 series)
- Southern Literary Messenger (1835-1864 + 1936 Contributor index)
- Southern Quarterly Review (1842-1857) (3 series)
- Vanity Fair (1860-1862)
- New York Times Articles - via ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851 - 2003)
- A Week in the Wilderness: Second Letter: Incidents and Observations on Raquette Lake, New York Times, June 26, 1855, p. 2.
- Letters from Summer Resorts: Life in the Adirondack - August 5, 1858. Away to the Woods--The Route from Westport--Disheartening Start--My Companions--Anticipating Dinner--F.'s Eagerness to be After the Trout-A Watt-street Brker Fly-fishing in his Room--Crossing the Mountain--Scotts - Lower Saranac Lake, Friday, July 9, 1858. "There were three of us. Two gentlemen from New-York accompany me in this trip; one, a young married man...the other, what spinsters call "An old bachelor." He is an Englishman..." This series of articles are signed 'H', probably Samuel H. Hammond (1809-1878), Albany attorney and author of Wild northern scenes; or, Sporting adventures with the rifle and the rod, New York, Derby & Jackson, 1857. The full text of this book can be found in The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920. It begins "My Dear R: It is now some ten years since I dedicated to you a series of letters written from the Adirondack region." (Hammond dedicated Wild Northern Scenes to John H. Reynolds, Esq. of Albany.) Hammond also wrote
Country margins and rambles of a journalist, New York, 1855 (also available in Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875); and
Hunting adventures in the northern wilds; or, A tramp in the Chateaugay woods, over hills, lakes and forest streams, New York, 1856.
- Life in the Adirondack: Number Two, New York Times, August 9, 1858, p. 2. "The Adirondack Peaks--Magnificent Prospect--Mount Tahawan--The Indian Pass--New Route--A high Precipice--Attractions for Travelers--A Buckwoodsman--Homesick--Strength of Habit" (Lower Saranac, Saturday, July 10). He mentions Mount Tahawus, Mount McMartin, White-Face, Mount Macintyre, Indian Pass, Martin's, Scott's
and Number Three "The Lower Saranac--Weather-bound--Boy Drowned--Democratic Guides--An Original Sam's Ideas of Bostonians--Best Way for Camping Out--Pleasant Aquaintances--Arrival of a Camping Party of Ladies--Their Appearance" (Lower Saranac, July)
- Life in the Adirondack, New York Times, August 13, 1858, p. 2. "Colby Pond--Going after Butter in the Woods--An Odd Team--Trout Fishing in Coldbrook--Lake Trout--Exciting Struggle between a New-York Lady and a Fifteen-Pounder" (Lower Saranac, Monday, July 12) and "Outfit for the Woods--A Bear and Panther Swimming in the Lake--Out of Saranac--Round Lake--Over the Rapids--Bartlett's" (Round Lake, Bartlett's, Tuesday, July 13). "The outfit Martin gave us rather surprised me. It is some twelve years since I was in these woods and I was not prepared for the march of civilization."
- Life in the Adirondack: Number Six, New York Times, August 23, 1858, p. 2. "Upper Stream--A Fine Echo--Fishing at Buoys--Ampersand--Trout Fishing--A Crooked Stream--Slaughtering Deer--Great Trout Fishing--Raquette River--Down the Raquette" (Rackett River, Thursday, July 15)
- Life in the Adirondack: Number Seven, New York Times, August 24, 1858, p.2. "Raquette River--Plumb gut Route--A Backwoodman's Trick--Dinner in the Woods--Backwoods' Hospitality--Keeping Open One-e--A Good Rifle-Shot--Shot at a Deer" (Raquette River, Monday, July 16)
- Life in the Adirondack: Number Eight, New York Times, September 4, 1858, p.2. "Hunting Deer with Jacks--Description of a "Jack"-A "Slue"--Queer Challenge from a Night Sentinel--Floating up the "Slue"--Singular Encounter with an Indian at Midnight--Return Without Deer-Reasons for Ill-Luck." (Raquette River, Saturday, July 17)
- Life in the Adirondack: Number Nine, New York Times, September 6, 1858, p.2. "____In parve"--A Backwoodsman's Interest in the Outside World--Fellow Campers--Big Tupper's Lake--Gallant Leap of a Deer--Buttermilk Falls--"Cold Spring"--Trout Fishing ruined by the Storm--A Weasel Impaled on a Buck's Horn--Bog River" (Loon Pond, Sunday, July 18)
- The Adirondacks: Camping on Fish Creek Abundance of Good Fishing Life on the Raquette River. New York Times, June 7, 1873, p.2
- The Adirondacks: A Perpetual Camp Life. New York Times, August 11, 1875, p. 2 "The Beauties of Keene Flats--Camp Life Pure and Simple--Guests who Have Resources in Themselves and have "A Right Good Time"--Old Washburn's Idea of a Picnic" ((Keene Flats, Tuesday, August 3, 1875).
- Search On Mountains and Lakes: the numerous Adirondack Resorts Now Ready to Receive the Summer Visitor, New York Times, June 27, 1897, p. 20
- Indications of an Early Season in Adirondack Camps, New York Times, June 7, 1903, p. 26
- Rustic Adirondack Retreat: White Pine Camp, one of the last of the 'great camps,' evokes a time when the wilderness was enjoyed in grand style Adirondacks, Carol Mauer, New York Times, July 4, 1999, p. 134.
- NYPL Digital Gallery - Contains numerous postcards depicting Adirondack scenes.
- New York State Archives Digital Collections - "The Digital Collections provide a gateway to a variety of rich primary source materials held by the State Archives, State Library, and State Museum. Through the collection, you can access photographs, textual materials, artifacts, government documents, manuscripts, and other materials."
Adirondack images in the collection include:
- Adirondack guides posing with gear (1886) - "Adirondack Guides Mitchell Sabattis, Farrand Austin and Johnnie Keller with sports Harry Graves, Edward Graves and Bob Adams posing with their gear and guns on the grounds of Holland's Blue Mountain House, at Blue Mountain Lake in the Adirondack Mountains."
- Baker Cottage, Dwelling Place of Robert Louis Stevenson (1912)
- Building a guide boat (before 1911) - Old Forge
- Camp Cornell (1927) - "...Owned by logging company Finch Pruyn and Company near Newcomb in the Adirondack Mountains. The site was known as Camp Cornell, and hosted annual Cornell Forestry students while they toured Adirondack lumber camps and observed logging operations."
- Crib supporting log Slide at Cranberry Lake (1915)
- Dinner (1922) - "Reynolds family eating dinner on porch of their rustic, called "Camp Arondack," (not Adirondack) on Fourth Lake in the Adirondack Mountains."
- Echo Camp (1916) - "Exterior of Echo Camp, built in 1883 for the governor of Connecticut. The Camp, built in the Great Camp style, was located on the shores of Raquette Lake in the Adirondack Mountains region."
- Elk Lake (1937) - "View of Nippletop and Dix Mountains from Elk Lake in the Adirondack Mountains. Photograph is part of a photo-diary created by Nash to record his numerous hikes in the region."
- Hikers at Johns Brook Lodge, trail to Mr. Marcy (1930)
- John's Brook Lodge (1937)
- Logs and Lumber at Tupper Lake Mill
- Lower Ausable Lake, Adirondacks. (May 1920)
- Lumbermen in the Adirondacks (ca. 1899)
- Panoramic view of ruins of Fort Ticonderoga from the south - 1880-1910?
- Ranger's Cabin, Azure Mt. - Side view of handsome cabin. There's also a Front View
- Ranger's Camp, Fish Creek Pond
- Rap-Shaw Fishing Club - Near Big Moose Lake. One of the men in the picture may be Arthur Burdick, a Fulton Chain guide.
- Spruce Logs above Dam in Boreas River - ca.1901-1920
- View of Sagamore Lodge from Sagamore Lake (1899) - "Sagamore Lodge and kitchen from Sagamore Lake. Sagamore Lake was originally called Shed Lake and renamed Sagamore by Durant. Sagamore Lodge, begun in 1895 was Durant's last building. The camp was sold to Alfred G. Vanderbilt in 1901. The camp is located in Raquette Lake in the Adirondack Mountains."
- View of the Village of Saranac Lake [before 1911]
- Wawbeek Lodge on Upper Saranac Lake - Before 1911
- Northern New York Historical Newspapers - Northern New York Library Council. Searchable "indexed access to selected historical newspapers from our service area: Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego and St. Lawrence counties."
- Oxbow - Caroline Charlotte Bonaparte Benton moved to Oxbow in July, 1839 after marrying Zebulon Howell Benton, the son of a local physician. She was the "fille illégitime" of Joseph Bonaparte and Annette Savage. Joseph Bonaparte, once King of Spain, was a brother of Napoleon Bonaparte.
- Penny Postcards - USGenWeb Archives. You can browse New York postcards by county.
- Panoramic Photographs - American Memory, Library of Congress. Adirondack photographs of exceptional detail and clarity, most taken in 1911 by H. M. Beach of Remsen, New York. Examples include:
- 7th Lake House - Fulton Chain
- Black Bear Mountain - Fulton Chain
- The Forge House - Old Forge
- Bald Mountain House - Old Forge
- The Glennmoore - Big Moose
- Lake View Lodge - Big Moose
- Birds eye view from Bald Mountain - Fulton Chain
- East Mountains, Lake East Mountains - Lake Placid
- Grand View Hotel looking N.E. - Lake Placid
- The Hermitage - Lake Placid
- Panoramic view of Lake Placid (1913),
- Mirror Lake - Lake Placid - By Chester D. Moses
- Stevens House and Mirror Lake - Lake Placid
- Lake Placid Club, Mirror Lake shore - Lake Placid
- Lake Shore Drive, Mirror Lake from L.P.C. [Lake Placid Club] - Lake Placid
- Wawbeek - Upper Saranac Lake
- Birds eye view, Saranac Inn
- Camp Mondawmin (1920) - Schroon Lake. By R. H. Cassens
- OAIster - "Collection of previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources..that are easily searchable by anyone."
- Philosophers' Camp on Follensby Pond - Protected by the The Nature Conservancy. See their map and slideshow. "In 1857 the artist, journalist and photographer William James Stillman (1828-1901) camped in the Adirondacks with friends. In 1858 James Russell Lowell, Louis Agassiz, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stillman and six others established a camp, known as the Philosophers' Camp, at Follensby Pond. In 1858 Stillman and others bought 22,500 acres near Ampersand Lake and founded the Adirondack Club. (Alternate spellings for Follensby: Folingsby's, Follensbee, Follansbee). "In 1858 or 1859 a band of eminent literary men, comprising Agassiz, Emerson, Lowell, Holmes, Stillman, Wyman, Hoar, Howe, Binney and Woodman established thier "Philosophers' Camp" on the distant shores of this sequestered sheet. "Follansbee Water" writes Mr. Stillman in the Century, Sept. 1893, "was then a rare and beautiful piece of untouched nature. They subsequently exchanged this location for that of Ampersand Pond." (p. 449, Descriptive guide to the Adirondacks (1894) by Edwin R. Wallace)."At the termination of the carry [Cold Brook to Ampersand Pond], once stood the celebrated "Philosopher's Camp," the summerhome, constructed many years ago at an expense of great hardship by Wm. F. Martin for Agassiz and his companions. This association was a gathering of congenial spirits , among whom were Emerson, Lowell, Judge Hoar, Dr Jeffries Wyman, Dr. Estes Howe, John Holmes, W.J. Stillman, Amos Binney and Horatio Woodman" (p. 256). Stillman wrote about The Adirondack Club in two chapters of his Autobiography of a Journalist (2 vols Houghton Mifflin, 1901). He also wrote about it in Autobiography of W. J. Stillman, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 85, Issue 511, May, 1900, pp. 613-628,
and in The Philosophers' Camp. Emerson, Agassiz, and Lowell in the Adirondacks, The Century, Volume 46, Issue 4, August 1893, pp. 598-606. There is a description of the camp on pages 258-262 in Thomas Wentworth Higginson's Oldport Days (1873) in (Making of America Michigan).
In The Adirondack; or, Life in the woods (1869) b y J. T. Headley, Chapter XLIX, pp. 422, Chapter contents: Philosopher's Camp - Lake Ampersand - Agassiz buys a Township - Forms A club - Puts up a House - Description of it - Loses his Land - Abandons his Household Gods - Trip to it - Its Lonely Situation - Hunt after a Boat - Night in Camp - Poor Luck in Hunting though Deer Plenty - A Lonely Sabbath - A Boy Kills a Deer - A Disappointed Hound - An exciting Deer-Chase - Home Again.
Camp of the Adirondack Club, Follansbee Lake and
the Philosopher's Camp in the Adirondacks, both painted by William J. Stillman in 1858, are owned by the Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Massachusetts. You can search the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to find Stillman's Study on Upper Saranac Lake (1854) (1977.842. Currently not on view. Provenance/Ownership History: The artist; to Charles Eliot Norton; to Miss N. Norton, his daughter; to Dr. J. Sydney Stillman, 1958; to MFA, 1977, gift of Dr. J. Sydney Stillman.)
- Small-Town America Stereoscopic Views from the Dennis Collection, 1850-1920 - American Memory, Library of Congress. Stereoscopic views of Saranac Lake by Seneca Ray Stoddard.
- Summer Brook Farm - Utopian community established in by Prestonia Mann Martin. See Mastrianni, Enid, Summer Brook: Prestonia Mann Martin's Mountain Utopia, Adirondack Life, 31 (July/Aug. 2000) 36-41. Maxim Gorky wrote his novel "Mother" here during the summer of 1906.
- Town of Webb Historical Association
- Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 - Searchable Library of Congress collection offers many images of New York State, including many by the photographer William Henry Jackson (1843-1942).
- A Walk Through Historic Keeseville - Words and pictures by Lee Manchester, Lake Placid News, October 8, 2004. With photograph of the very handsome Richard Keese II House, 1760 Main Street (circa 1823).
- Note: Subject headings to search for include
- Adirondack Park (N.Y.)
- Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
- Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Biography.
- Adirondack Mountains Region -- Biography
- Natural history -- New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains
- Adirondack Museum Library and Research - Provides access to online catalog.
- Adirondack Research Library - Niskayuna
- Adirondack Community College Library - Queensbury
- American Antiquarian Society - Search their catalogs
- Clarkson University Library - Potsdam
- Clinton, Essex, Franklin Library System
- Clinton Community College Library - Plattsburgh
- Jefferson Community College - Watertown
- Lake Placid Public Library
- Libweb - Library WWW Servers
- Library of Congress Online Catalogs
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections - Library of Congress
- North Country Library System
- Northern New York Library Network (NNYLN)
- Online Catalog
- Membership Directory
- Information about Member Libraries
- Archives Associate Newsletter
- Directory of Archival and Historical Document Collections
- North Country Digital History
- Northern New York Historical Newspapers
- Newsletter Archive
- Open Worldcat
- Paul Smith's College Joan Weill Library
- Pierpont Morgan Library Archives - In their collection is: Guest books : Camp Uncas, 1900-1943 which "contain the signatures of guests and the dates of their visits to Camp Uncas, J.P. Morgan's camp located on Lake Mohegan in the Adirondacks. Some entries include brief summaries of the day's activities." Also in the archives is Fishing record : Camp Uncas, 1920-1942. "Contains an account of the number and type of fish caught at Camp Uncas, J.P. Morgan's camp located on Lake Mohegan in the Adirondacks. Entries are sporadic and only take up 7 of the book's 200 pages." You can search Corsair, the online catalog.
- Saranac Lake Free Library
- St. Lawrence University Libraries
- SUNY Cortland Memorial Library - Search the Library Catalog, a good resource for Adirondack material. Search for Adirondack as a key word or subject. You'll find, for example, 16 titles authored or coauthored by Barbara McMartin. The Adirondack collection is strong because SUNY Cortland owns Camp Huntington on Raquette Lake. Originally known as Camp Pine Knot, it was built by William West Durant in 1877 and sold to railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington in 1895. Huntington donated it to the college in 1947.
- SUNY Plattsburgh Feinberg Library
- Adirondack Center for Writing - Paul Smith's College. They provide a list of publishers and Adirondack Literary Awards
- Adirondack Review - "Independent on-line quarterly of literature and the arts published by Black Lawrence Press. With full-text archives back to Summer 2001.
- Amateur Athletic Foundation - In their Digital Archives are popular sports of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as contemporary research journals. A search for Adirondacks, for example, locates the following articles in Outing (1883-1902) all in pdf format. (Locate these full-text articles via their Search page.)
- A Winter Ascent of Tahawus by C. Grant La Farge, Outing, April, 1900, Vol. XXXVI, No. 1, p. 69-75.
- The Sporting Clubs In The Adirondacks by Seaver Asbury Miller, Outing, August, 1898, Vol. XXXII, No. 5, p. 475-482. "Among the important private preserves of the Adirondacks is Brandreth Park, which is probably the oldest in the State of New York, having been in the possession of its present owners since 1851. It is situated in the town of Long Lake, Hamilton County." (p. 476)
- Afoot in Natures Game Preserves: The Adirondack Park Region by Leonidas Hubbard, Outing, November, 1899, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, p. 196-201.
- Striped Bass in Summer-Adirondack Fishing by William C. Harris, Outing, August, 1902, Vol. XXXX, No. 5, p. 640-642.
- Picnicking in the Adirondacks by J. Osgood, Outing, July, 1889, Vol. XIV, No. 4, p. 284-288.
- A Damp Journey on a Down Grade by Ralph K. Wing, Outing, November, 1888, Vol. XIII, No. 2, p. 117-124.
- The Adirondack Forests, Outing, April, 1885, Vol. VI, No. 1, p. 77-83.
Articles from contemporary journals include:
- Urban Man Confronts the Wilderness: The Nineteenth-Century Sportsman in the Adirondacks by Philip G. Terrie, Journal of Sport History, 1978, Vol. 5, No. 3, p. 7-20.
- The Adirondack Guide: The Wilderness Representative of Invasion and Invitation in an Imagined Community by Peter M. Hopsicker, North American Society For Sport History. Proceedings And Newsletter, 2003, p. 15-16.
- BlueLine - SUNY Potsdam "literary magazine dedicated to the spirit of the Adirondacks."
- Cornell University Library: New York State Historical Literature - "Collection of selected monographs, pamphlets and other materials with expired copyrights chosen from from the Cornell Library's extensive collection of New York State Literature."
- The Adirondacks, illustrated with photographs and maps (1917) - By Thomas Morris Longstreth
- The Adirondacks, Illustrated (1881) - By Seneca Roy Stoddard
- Descriptive guide to the Adirondacks, (land of the thousand lakes) and to Saratoga Springs; Schroon Lake; Lakes Luzerne, George, and Champlain; the Ausable Chasm; the Thousand Islands; Massena Springs; and Trenton Falls (1894) - Edwin R. Wallace describes travel by train in the Adirondacks. Contents:
- Chapter I: John Brown Tract, Oswegatchie and Grass River Regons (Pages 25-174)
- Chapter II: St. Regis and Chateaugay Woods, and Saranac Lake Region. (Pages 175-210)
- Chapter III: Saranac Lake and Adirondack Mountain Regions (Pages 211-338)
- ChapterIV: Adirondack Mountain, Hudson River, Raquette and Long Lake Regions (Pages 339-412)
- Chapter IV: Tagoga, Pleasant and Piseco Lake Regions (Pages 413-425)
- Chapter VI: The Raquette Waters (Pages 426-465)
- Chapter VII: Camp-Life, General Outfit, and Expenses; Game Laws, Woodcraft; Hotel Directory, &c. (Pages 466-508)
- Gallica - Text and image digitization project undertaken by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. You can search (recherche) for keywords (recherche libre). Search for Saranac, Raquettes, Adirondacks, Ticonderoga, Georges, Champlain, Hudson, Saratoga, Abenaquis
Titles of interest include:
- Au milieu des bois: scènes américaines (1882) by Bénédict-H. Révoil (1816-1882). See Chapter 8, p. 68: Le lac Saint-Régis. ,
Chapter 10, p. 86 "Les sources du Saranac", Chapter 24, p.215 Le village Au Sable. - Keeseville
- The letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his family and friends (1901) - 2 volumes (Chapter IX : The United States Again, Winter in the Adirondacks p. 57)
- Google Books
- The Adirondacks: Illustrated by Seneca Ray Stoddard (1844-1917). 19th edition, Glen Falls: Published by the Author, 1889.
- Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrums - Digital Library at the Lower Saxony State and University Library, Göttingen, consists of over 2800 volumes, including a good collection of early travel books. Among the Adirondack-related titles is:
- The Adirondacks illustrated (1907) - By Seneca Ray Stoddard
- Appleton´s hand-book of American travel (1871) - By Edward Hagaman Hall. Northern and eastern tour, pp. 52-62.
- Making of America - Digital library of nineteenth century books and journals. This digitization project was undertaken at both the University of Michigan and Cornell University with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Search both collections; the Michigan collection consists of imprints between 1850 and 1877 and "currently contains approximately 9,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints" and the Cornell collection, which covers the period of 1840 - 1900 "provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles." You can browse periodical titles at Cornell and Michigan. A few of the Adirondack-related items are listed below:
- The Adirondack; or, Life in the woods (1853) - By Joel Tyler Headley. There is also an 1869 edition.
- The Adirondacks Verified - By Charles Dudley Warner. This six article series appeared in the Atlantic monthly, January through June, 1878. You can access all the articles in full-text. Go to Browse Cornell University's MoA Journal Collection. The first article in the Adirondacks Verified series, How I Killed a Bear is one of the selections in Paul Jamieson's Adirondack Reader.
- Adventures in the wilderness: or, camp-life in the Adirondacks (1869) - By William Henry Harrison Murray (1840-1904)
- Lake George: its scenes and characteristics, with glimpses of the olden times (1868) - by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) DeCosta (1831-1904).
- The life and adventures of Nat Foster, trapper and hunter of the Adirondacks (1897)- by Arthur Lester Byron-Curtiss
- Under the trees (1874) - By Samuel Irenæus Prime (Chapter XV, p.92-136, The Adirondacks)
- Woods and waters: or, The Saranacs and Racket (1860) - By Alfred B. Street
- Stoddard, Seneca Ray - Author of The Adirondacks, Illustrated (1874). See Jeffrey Horrell's Seneca Ray Stoddard: Transforming the Adirondack Wilderness in Text and Image (2000). Horrell is Dean of Libraries and Librarian of the College at Dartmouth.
- Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 - Collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography which attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. Project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (2,109 unedited, 778 fully edited and encoded) by 1,394 authors. You can search the full-text. Wright "listed a total of 2,923 titles in adult fiction, including "novels, novelettes, romances, short stories, tall tales, tract-like tales, allegories, and fictitious biographies and travels, in prose" (from the introduction), and inventoried 18 American libraries for holdings. This compilation is part of his three-volume set listing American fiction from 1774 through 1900, and is still considered the most comprehensive bibliography of American adult fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries." Adirodack-related titles include
- Adventures in the Wilderness, or, Camp-life in the Adirondacks (1869) by W. H. H. Murray (1840-1904);
- I Go A-fishing (1873) by William Cowper Prime (1825-1905);
- The Romance of American Landscape (1854] by T. Addison Richards (1820-1900);
- Woods and Waters, or, The Saranacs and Racket (1860) by Alfred Billings Street (1811?-1881);
- The Forest (1852) by J. V. Huntington (1815-1862);
- Country Margins and Rambles of a Journalist (1855) by S. H. Hammond (1809-1878);
- Summer Gleanings, or, Sketches and Incidents of a Pastor's Vacation (1852) by John Todd (1800-1873);
- Absolutely Adirondacks - Moody Pond rentals (Saranac Lake)
- Adirondack by Owner
- Adirondack Hotel - Long Lake (518-624-4700)
- Adirondack Rock & River Guide Service Lodging - Keene (518-576-2041)
- Adirondak Loj - Lake Placid. Adirondack Mountain Club property.
- Alpine Club of Canada - They have a property in the Adiorndacks - Keene Farm near Keene, New York, "a 105 acre property of meadow and woodland provides both camping facilities and a large cabin that accommodates up to 32 people." See An Historical Perspective on the Keene Farm by Gordon Weetman
- Ampersand Bay Resort and Boat Club - Saranac Lake (518-891-3001)
- Bark Eater Bed & Breakfast - Keene (518-576-2221)
- Bearhurst Lakeside Cottages - Speculator (518-548-6427)
- Big Moose Inn - Eagle Bay
- Boathouse Bed & Breakfast - Bolton Landing (518-644-2554). Built in 1914 by speed boat racer George Rice.
- Branch Farm Bed & Breakfast - Saranac Lake (518-891-0869)
- Camp Colby Cabins - Saranac Lake
- Camp Solitude - Built in 1896 as Camp Brenwolde by B. I. Ward (Summer: 518-523-3190 Winter: 609-876-5322). See Camp Solitude by Lee Manchester, Lake Placid News, August 15, 2000. "This laid-back, isolated Adirondack Great Camp retreat is a haven for dogs and dog lovers on the shores of Placid Lake."
- Cochran's Cabins - Saranac Lake
- Covewood Lodge - Big Moose Lake
- Crowne Plaza Resort and Golf Club - Lake Placid (518-523-25560)
- Dartbrook Lodge - Keene (518-576-9080)
- Doctor's Inn - Saranac Lake B & B
- Dolly Family Lodge - Elizabethtown (518-796-8051)
- 1870 Bed and Breakfast - Indian Lake (518-648-5377). Owner Bill Zullo received an award for "long-term stewardship" in 2006 from Adirondack Architectural Heritage.
- Elk Lake Lodge - North Hudson. Featured in the April 2002 Outside Magazine.
- Essex Inn - Essex
- Falls Brook Yurts - Minerva (518-761-6187)
- Fern Lodge - Chestertown (518-494-7238)
- Fogarty's Bed & Breakfast - Saranac Lake (518-891-3755 and 800-525-3755)
- Four Peaks Backcountry Camps - Jay
- Friends Lake Inn - Chestertown (518 494-4751)
- Garnet Hill Lodge - Four season Adirondack Inn in North River. (800-497-4207)
- Garrett Hotel Group - Burlington, Vermont, company, owned by David Garrett, owns the Lake Placid Lodge and manages The Point.
- Glen Lodge B & B - Warrensburg (800-867-2335 and 518-494-4984)
- Golden Arrow Lakeside Resort - Lake Placid (800-582-5540)
- Harbor Hill Inn & Cottages - Saranac Lake. Owned by Denise and Wayne Bujold.
- Hedges - Blue Mountain Lake
- Hemlock Hall - Cottages, motel & lodge rooms, Blue Mountain Lake.
- Hilton Lake Placid Resort - (518-523-4411)
- Holl's Inn - Inlet. (315-357-2941 and 315-733-2748)
- Hotel Saranac - Saranac Lake (800- 937-0211)
- Indian Lake Chamber of Commerce - Has useful lodging information
- Inn at Whiteface - Wilmington (518-946-2232)
- Inn on the Library Lawn - Westport (518-962-8666) or (888-577-7748)
- Interlaken Inn - Lake Placid (800-428-4369)
- Irondequoit Inn - Piseco (518-548-5500)
- Johns Brook Lodge - Adirondack Mountain Club property.
- Keene Valley Lodge - (518-576-2003)
- Lake Placid Lodge
- Lapland Lake - Northville (518-863-4974)
- Lodge on Lake Clear - Lake Clear (518-891-1489). Also known as Hohmeyer's Lake Clear Lodge
- Minnowbrook Conference Center - Blue Mountain Lake. Owned by Syracuse University.
- Mirror Lake Inn - Lake Placid (518-523-2544)
- Nehasane Properties - Long Lake. Owned by S. Watson Webb. "A luxurious wilderness lodge within Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne, Partlow offers a unique vacation. The lodge has 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, fully equipped kitchen and laundry room. The Great Room has a massive fireplace rising high into the post and beam cathedral ceiling. A screened porch affords panoramic views of the lake and mountains. The Boat House is equipped with 2 row boats, 2 canoes, docks, and a swimming raft. The second floor is a guest cabin which can sleep 4-6."
- Normandie Beach Club - Westport, on Lake Champlain. (518-962-4750)
- Norridgewock Hotel - Beaver River
- Northbrook Lodge - Paul Smiths. 16 rooms in 5 cottages on a 10 acre peninsula (518-327-3379)
- Packbasket Adventures Bed & Breakfast - Wanakena (315-848-3488)
- Paradox Lodge - Lake Placid (518-523-9078 or 877-743-9078)
- The Point - "Exclusive, uniquely American resort deep in the heart of New York's 6-million-acre Adirondack Park" (on Upper Saranac Lake). Originally called Camp Wonundra, it was constructed between 1930 and 1933 by architect William Distin for William Rockefeller, great-nephew of John D. Rockefeller.
- Lake Placid Lodge - Sister property of The Point. See Call of the Wild by Eliza Scott Harris, Departures, September 2002.
- Rockledge Cabins - Lake Clear - "in the heart of the St. Regis canoe area" - (518-891-9685)
- Sagamore - Raquette Lake
- The Sagamore - Bolton Landing on Lake George
- Silver Spruce Inn - Schroon Lake (518-532-7031)
- South Meadow Farm Lodge - Lake Placid
- Sunday Pond Bed & Breakfast - Saranac Lake (518-891-1531)
- Timberlock - Sabael (518-648-5494)
- Trail's End Inn - Keene Valley
- Turner Camps - Old Forge
- Van Auken's Inne - Thendara
- Waldheim - Cottages on Big Moose Lake, Eagle Bay (315-357-2353)
- Wawbeek - Upper Saranac Lake resort. (Note: The Wawbeek has been purchased and is no longer in operation - see Historic Wawbeek lodge to be torn down - North Country Public Radio, 02/22/08 and Plan suggested as Wawbeek deadline arrives by Kim Smith Dedam, Press Republican, April 03, 2008.
- Wellscroft Lodge - Upper Jay
- White Pine Camp - Great Camp served as President Coolidge's 1926 Summer White House (and from 1949 to 1983 as housing for Paul Smith's College students).
- Whiteface Lodge - Lake Placid. "This 94-suite lodge takes the great camp motif into the modern era: 28-foot cathedral ceilings, locally handcrafted furniture, and cast-iron fireplaces are unmistakably Adirondack, but luxe touches, like radiant-heat floors and Jacuzzi tubs, go behond the rustic." (Adirondack Peaks, National Geographic Traveler, July/August, 2008, p. 62)
- Woods Inn - Inlet
- Vacation Rental
- Adirondack By Owner - Has vacation rentals listed by region including Saranac Lake, Old Forge, Tupper Lake, and Lake Placid.
- Adirondack Country Homes Realty
- Adirondack Real Estate - Rob Grant & Associates, Saranac Lake
- Christmas and Associates - See New York Cabin Rental
- Century 21 High Peaks Realty - Offices in Lake Placid, Saranac Lake, and Tupper Lake
- Gillis Realty - Tupper Lake
- Julie Liddle's Private Adirondack Vacation Rentals
- Kathy Gagnon & Associates - Keene. Offers vacation rentals
- S. Curtis Hayes
- Cherrie Sayles
- Adirondack Explorer - Non-profit, bimonthly magazine. Sample articles are available online.
- Adirondack Life
- Adirondack Park E-Magazine
- Adirondack Review - "Independent on-line quarterly of literature and the arts published by Black Lawrence Press. With full-text archives back to Summer 2001.
- Adirondack Sports and Fitness - Monthly magazine provides access to some of its Back Issues and has good articles on hiking including Gill Brook, Fish Hawk Cliffs & Indian Head, More than Mountains: Fall Hiking & Backpacking in the Foothills of the Dix Range, and Hiking Catamount Mountain.
- Cottage Life - Canadian magazine has searchable index to back issues and provides selected articles in full-text. For example, there are tips on Closing up the Cottage, How to Cut Down a tree and Cottage Insulation Retrofit.
- Paul Smith Sequel - Available in full-text form 1999.
- Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles - From the Search Page you can view the full-text of Outing from 1883 to 1899.
- Earth Observatory - NASA
- Fall Color Surrounds Montreal - October 6, 2005. See also Peak Color: Leaf Peeping from Space, Adirondack Life, October 2007.
- Historic USGS Maps of New England & New York - University of New Hampshire Library. Has Image Map
- Au Sable Forks
- Big Moose
- Blue Mountain
- Boonville
- Cranberry Lake
- Dannemora
- Elizabethtown
- Harrisburg-Stony Creek
- Highmarket
- Indian Lake
- Lake Bonaparte
- Lake Luzerne
- Lake Placid
- Lake Pleasant
- Long Lake
- Loon Lake
- Lowville
- Lyon Mountain
- McKeever
- Mooers
- Mount Marcy
- Newcomb - Blue Ledge (or Blue Ledges) is on this map (southeast corner)
- North Creek
- Number Four
- Ohio-Wilmurt
- Old Forge
- Oswegatchie
- Paradox Lake
- Piseco Lake
- Raquette Lake
- Remsen
- Russell
- Santa Clara
- Santanoni
- Saranac
- Schroon Lake
- St. Regis
- Thirteenth Lake
- Tupper Lake
- West Canada Lakes
- Whitehall
- Princeton GIS Center - Provides access to many maps of the region including:
- Adirondack and Thousand Islands Section - Scarborough's official road map of the State of New York, 1916.
- Ausable Quadrangle - US Geological Survey, March 1903. On bottom left: "Engraved by U.S.G.S. Jan. 1895"
- Big Moose Quadrangle - US Geological Survey, July, 1903
- Blue Mountain Quadrangle (Hamilton County) - US Geological Survey, July 1903
- Bolton Quadrangle (Washington County, Warren County) - US Geological Survey, 1900
- Boonville Quadrangle (Oneida County, Lewis County) - US Geological Survey, August, 1904
- Brier Hill Quadrangle (St. Lawrence County) - US Geological Survey, 1906
- Broadabin Quadrangle (Saratoga County, Fulton County) - US Geological Survey, July, 1902
- Canton Quadrangle (St. Lawrence County) - US Geological Survey, November, 1911
- Chateaugay Quadrangle
- Churubusco Quadrangle
- Cranberry Lake Quadrangle - US Geological Survey, 1921
- Childwold Quadrangle - US Geological Survey, 1920
- Dannemora Quadrangle (Clinton County) - US Geological Survey, June, 1913
- Elizabethtown Quadrangle (Essex County) - US Geological Survey. At bottom of map: "Engraved January 1894"
- Fort Ann Quadrangle (Washington County) - US Geological Survey, 1893
- Geologic map of the Lowville Quadrangle - New York State Museum, 1917
- Geologic map of the Oswegatchie Quadrangle - New York State Museum, 1929
- Geologic map of the Piseco Lake Quadrangle - New York State Museum, 1934
- Geologic map of the Remsen Quadrangle - New York State Museum, 1907
- Geological reconnaissance map of parts of St. Regis and Saranac quadrangles - New York State Museum, 1916
- Hammond Quadrangle (St. Lawrence County, Jefferson County)
- Glens Falls Quadrangle (Warren County, Washington County) - US Geological Survey, May 1897. [1927 reprint]
- Gouverneur Quadrangle -
- Highmarket Quadrangle (Lewis County - US Geological Survey, March, 1906
- Indian Lake Quadrangle (Hamilton County) - US Geological Survey, April, 1902
- Lake Bonaparte Quadrangle - US Geological Survey, 1916
- Lake Placid - US Geological Survey, September, 1898
- Lake Pleasant Quadrangle - US Geological Survey, February, 1907
- Long Lake Quadrangle - US Geological Survey, November, 1904
- Loon Lake Quadrangle (Franklin County) - US Geological Survey, August 1908
- Lowville Quadrangle (Lewis County) - US Geological Survey, 1911
- Luzerne Quadrangle (Warren County, Saratoga County) - US Geological Survey, June, 1903
- Lyon Mountain Quadrangle (Clinton County, Franklin County) - US Geological Survey, December 1912
- McKeever Quadrangle (Herkimer County, Lewis County, Oneida County) - US Geological Survey, June 1912
- Malone Quadrangle (Franklin County) - US Geological Survey, 1917
- Moira Quadrangle
- Map of the Adirondack Wilderness - S. R. Stoddard, 1881
- Mooers Quadrangle (Clinton County) - US Geological Survey, January, 1899
- Mt. Marcy Quadrangle (Essex County) - US Geological Survey, June, 1902
- Newcomb Quadrangle (Essex County, Hamilton County) - US Geological Survey, October, 1901
- Nicholville Quadrangle (St. Lawrence County, Franklin County) - US Geological Survey, 1919
- North Creek Quadrangle (Warren County) - US Geological Survey, July 1897
- Number Four Quadrangle (Herkimer County, Lewis County) - US Geological Survey, January, 1915 (Towns of Webb, Watson, Croghan showing Jake's Pond, Beaver River, Beaver Lake, Middle and West Branch Oswegatchie). Lower left corner of map reads "Engraved June 1914" and "Surveyed in 1910-1912". You can purchase an Aeromagnetic map of the Number Four quadrangle, Herkimer and Lewis Counties, New York (1965) for $7.00, plus a $5.00 handling charge from the USGS Publications Warehouse (ISBN: 0607735090 Item No. 22521).
- Ogdensburg Quadrangle (St. Lawrence County) - US Geological Survey, 1905
- Old Forge Quadrangle (Herkimer County, Hamilton County) - US Geological Survey, March, 1901
- Orwell Quadrangle
- Paradox Lake Quadrangle (Warren County, Essex County) - US Geological Survey, July, 1897
- Piseco Lake Quadrangle (Herkimer County, Hamilton County, Fulton County) - US Geological Survey, December, 1906
- Plattsburg Quadrangle (Clinton County) - US Geological Survey, November, 1906
- Potsdam Quadrangle
- Port Leyden Quadrangle (Lewis County, Oneida County) - US Geological Survey, 1907.
- Raquette Lake Quadrangle (Hamilton County) - US Geological Survey, July, 1903
- Remsen Quadrangle - US Geological Survey, April, 1900
- Russell Quadrangle (St Lawrence County) - US Geological Survey, 1915
- Saint Regis Quadrangle (Franklin County) - US Geological Survey, February, 1905
- Santa Clara Quadrangle (Franklin County) - US Geological Survey, 1923
- Santanoni Quadrangle (Essex County, Franklin County) - US Geological Survey, March, 1904
- Saranac Quadrangle (Essex County, Franklin County) - US Geological Survey, June, 1904
- Schroon Lake Quadrangle (Essex County, Warren County) - US Geological Survey, July, 1897
- Stark Quadrangle (St. Lawrence County) - US Geological Survey, 1921
- Stony Creek Quadrangle (Saratoga County, Fulton County, Hamilton County, Warren County) - US Geological Survey, 1910
- Thirteenth Lake Quadrangle (Hamilton County, Warren County, Essex County) - US Geological Survey, April, 1898
- Ticonderoga Quadrangle (Essex County, Addison County [?], Washington County) - US Geological Survey, December, 1902
- West Canada Lakes Quadrangle (Hamilton County) - US Geological Survey, June, 1903
- Whitehall Quadrangle (Washington County, Warren County) - US Geological Survey, July, 1902
- Wilmurt Quadrangle (Herkimer County, Hamilton County) - US Geological Survey, April 1902
- Adirondack Museum - Blue Mountain Lake. With Special Events
- Adirondack Park Visitor Interpretive Centers - Paul Smiths & Newcomb
- Essex County Historical Society / Adirondack History Center Museum - Elizabethtown
- Hyde Collection - Glens Falls
- John Brown Farm and Gravesite - North Elba, Essex County
- Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks - Tupper Lake. Also known as the Wild Center. See The Adirondacks Under Glass, Lisa W. Foderaro, New York Times, July 7, 2006.
- Six Nations Indian Museum - Private museum operated by Ray, Christine, and John Fadden. Onchiota (518-891-2299)
- Up Yonda Farm Environmental Education Center - Bolton Landing (518-644-9767)
- Whiteface Mountain - You can ride the Cloudsplitter Gondola to the summit of Little Whiteface ($8 per person)
- Adirondack Daily Enterprise - Saranac Lake. See Adirondack Gadabout: Hollywood movie magic in the Adirondacks by Joe Hackett, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 8, 2007. "Indian actors from the Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga and Seneca Nations descended on Elk Lake last week for the filming of a documentary, titled “First Nations...The docu-drama is one in a series of 12 that documents the stories of Indian Nations across the country. It will be the premier series on the Discovery Channel in the 2009 season, beginning with the Iroquois story. Produced by Think Films, a motion picture company based in Washington, D.C., it is directed by Joe Becker and produced by Stephanie Antosca. Think Films is the producer of the highly acclaimed “The West Wing” series, as well as a number of documentary films and television projects."
- Adirondack Echo - Old Forge
- Adirondack Express - Old Forge weekly
- Adirondack Explorer - "Regional newspaper devoted to exploring, explaining, extolling, protecting and unifying the Adirondack Park."
- Adirondack Express - Old Forge
- Boonville Herald
- Champlain Channel - WPTZ-TV Plattsburgh
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers - Library of Congress site allows you to "search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." Newspapers from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia are currently available. Among New York Newspapers are New-York tribune, The Evening World, and The Sun.
- Upstate Forests Swept by Flames: Fires Now Threaten Camps and Homes - New-York Tribune, October 20, 1908, page 1. "Boyce's handsome camp at Ingram Lake was destroyed yesterday, together with a large adjoining tract of virgin timber,,.included fires at Chain Lake and on the road to the North Woods Club about twenty miles from here where from three hundred to four hundred acres are in flames.
- Denton Publications - Publishes:
- Adirondack Journal - Warrensburg, Lake George news
- News Enterprise - North Creek
- North Countryman -
- Glens Falls Post Star
- Gloversville Leader-Herald
- Hamilton County News
- Malone Daily Telegram
- Lake Placid News
- Lowville Journal & Republican
- Massina / Potsdam Courier-Observer
- Malone Telegram - Weekly classifieds
- Mountain Lake PBS - WCFE-TV PBS Plattsburgh. See their Local Productions, especially People Near Here.
- New York Times - Free archives from 1987. See
Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site by Richard Perez-Pena, New York Times, September 18, 2007. "In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free."
- Testing All Skill Levels in the Adirondacks - New York Times, May 23, 2009. "Established in 1957, Catharsis was one of the few easier technical routes in the 6-million acre Adirondack Park that got a five-star rating in the 2008 climbing guide “Adirondack Rock.” Rating it 5.5 for difficulty, Jim Lawyer and Jeremy Haas called the 490-foot climb one of the Adirondacks’ best moderate slab routes “with clean rock and good exposure.”
- State to Preserve Heart of Adirondacks - By Anthony dePalma, New York Times, February 15, 2008. " New York State will buy more than 57,000 acres that had been owned by Finch, Pruyn & Company since the Civil War and add it to the existing forest preserve, which is off limits to development or timber cutting but open for public recreation. In addition, the state will buy conservation easements on 74,000 more acres of woodlands formerly owned by Finch, Pruyn (pronounced PRINE) and now controlled by the conservancy."
- Weather for Ice Fishing Is Late in Adirondacks - By Lisa W. Foderaro, February 19, 2007.
- Day Trips: Where the Old Forest Roots Survive - By John Motyka, September 12, 2003. "Roaring Brook Falls is, by most accounts, a classic old-growth site. To get there, start at a small parking area tucked into a dip in the road on New York Route 73 some 17 miles southeast of Lake Placid and marked by a trailhead sign for Giant Mountain."
- Houses on Quiet Water: Kayaks, Canoes and Tranquillity - As told to Amy Gunderson, March 11, 2005.
- From the Water's Edge - By Marek Fuchs, October 8, 2004.
- Living Here; On an Adirondack Lake Where the Light Is Soft an the Wind Stops - Interview by Trish Hall, April 5, 2002.
- Out-Twigging the Neighbors; In the Adirondacks, Great Camps Are Sprouting Again by Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, October 23, 1997.
- Travel Advisory: Remote Hudson By Wooden Boat - By Bill McKibben, August 22, 1993.
- Building Boom in Adirondack Park Tests Laws to Preserve Wilderness By Elizabeth Kolbert, August 4, 1987.
- The Challenge of Mount Marcy - By James Howard Kunstler, March 18, 1986.
- Adirondack Survivors: Rustic 'Grand Camps' - By Michael Decourcy Hinds, August 27, 1981.
- North Country Public Radio Online News - Over 900 audio files of stories going back to 1998. Includes a portion of Brian Mann's 2004 interview with Barbara McMartin of Canada Lake who died on September 27, 2005. McMartin was an environmentalist and Adirondack expert who wrote more than 20 books about the region. In the nine minute audio clip Discovering Adirondack Old Growth Forests Martha Foley talks with naturalist Bruce Kershner.
- Northern New York Historical Newspapers - Northern New York Library Council. Searchable "indexed access to selected historical newspapers from our service area: Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego and St. Lawrence counties."
- New York Newspapers Advertising and Marketing Executives - Has links to member newspapers.
- Ogdensburg Journal
- PBS: The Adirondacks
- Plattsburgh Press Republican - "Online Community and News Resource for Clinton, Essex and Franklin Counties of Northeastern New York."
- St. Lawrence Plain Dealer - Weekly classifieds
- Saratogian - Saratoga Springs
- Syracuse Post Standard
- Mission: Lean-to Rehab by David Figura, Syracuse Post Standard, December 26, 2008.
- Utica Observer Dispatch
- Watertown Daily Times
- WCAX Channel 3 (CBS) - Burlington, Vermont
- WNBZ 1240 AM - Saranac Lake
- WPTZ News Channel 5 (NBC)
- WVNY Channel 22 (ABC)
- WFFF Channel 44 (Fox) - Burlington, Plattsburgh, Montreal
- WAMC/WCEL
- WBTZ(FM) Plattsburgh - 99.9 FM
- WICY
- WIPS 1250 AM
- WIRY
- WNBZ - Saranac Lake. AM 1240. Has a Daily Noon News Report and a High Peaks Journal.
- WYZY-FM - Plattsburgh
- Adirondack Connections - Tupper Lake (518 -359-2911)
- Adirondack Sport Shop - Fran Betters. Wilmington (518-946 - 2605)
- Adirondack Paddle 'n' Pole
- Adirondack Rock and River Guide Service - Keene. Ed and Ann Palen (518-576-2041)
- Adirondack Lakes and Trails Outfitters - Saranac Lake (800-491-0414)
- Adirondack River Outfitters - Black River, Hudson River Gorge, Moose River and Sacandaga River (800-525-7238)
- Adirondack White Water Rafting - Offers Hudson River Gorge trip, a class IV run through a walled gorge and one of the best rafting experiences in the East.
- Adventure Sports Center - Adirondack Community College, Queensbury (518-743-2250)
- Alpine Sport Shop - Saratoga Springs (518-584-6290)
- Beaver Brook Outfitters - Wevertown (888-454-8433)
- Blue Mountain Outfitters - Blue Mountain Lake (518-352-7306)
- Hickok's Boat Livery - Tupper Lake (518-891-0480)
- Hudson River Professional Outfitters Association
- Edward Kanze - Bloomingdale. "Author, naturalist, wilderness guide, and photographer..."
- Hudson River Rafting Company
- Jones Outfitters - Lake Placid. Fly fishing and paddle sports. (518-523-3468)
- McDonnell's Adirondack Challenges - Lake Clear (518-891-1176)
- Mac's Canoe Livery - Lake Clear. (518-891-1176)
- Middle Earth Expeditions - Lake Placid (518-523-9572)
- Mountainman Outdoor Supply Company - Old Forge and Inlet
- Ndakinna Education Center - Greennfield Center. Offers wilderness based programs "focusing on regional Native American understandings, Adirondack culture, wilderness skills and awareness of the natural world."
- New York State Outdoor Guides Association - Lake Placid (866-469-7642)
- Northern Waters Guide Service - Malone (518-483-6333)
- Northwoods Wilderness Guide Service - Schroon Lake
- Packbasket Adventures - "Old fashioned Adirondack Lodge and Guide Service" located in Wanakena (315 848-3488)
- Raquette River Outfitters - Tupper Lake (518-359-3228). Owned by Rob Frenette.
- St. Regis Canoe Outfitters - Saranac Lake and Lake Clear (518-891-1838)
- Tickner's Canoe Rentals - Old Forge (315-369-6286)
- Wild Waters Outdoor Center - Warrensburg (1-800-867-2335). They offer rafting trips on the Sacandaga River and the Hudson River Gorge. Farwell Forrest describes his Hudson River Gorge trip in
A Narrows Escape: Hubris, Nemesis, and the Kindness of Strangers. See USGS Real-Time Water Data for Hudson River at North Creek
- Wilderness Learning Center - Survival school in the Adirondacks (Chateaugay) run by Marty Simon and John Gibbons, grandson of Euell Gibbons.
- Adirondack Park Visitor Interpretive Centers - Paul Smiths & Newcomb
- Bay Pond Park - 21,000-acres. Protected by a Nature Conservancy-held conservation easement.
- Brandon Park - 27,000 acres. Protected by a Nature Conservancy-held conservation easement given in 1978 by Wilhemina du Pont Ross.
- Windfall Pond
- DEC Region 5 - Eastern Adirondacks. Franklin, Clinton, Essex, Hamilton, Warren, Fulton, Saratoga and Washington counties. Has information on the Hudson Gorge Primitive Area
- DEC Region 6 - Western Adirondacks. Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida and St Lawrence counties.
- Nature Conservancy: Adirondacks - The areas they have protected include
- Bog River
- Chaumont Barrens Preserve
- Clintonville Pine Barrens
- Coon Mountain Preserve
- Everton Falls Preserve
- Follensby Pond
- Gadway Sandstone Pavement Barrens
- Lake George: Cook Mountain Preserve
- Lake Lila
- Little Tupper Lake
- Lyon Mountain
- Massawepie Mire - One of the largest bogs in the Northeast
- Santanoni Preserve
- Shelving Rock Falls
- Silver Lake Bog Preserve
- Spring Pond Bog Preserve - Contains New York State's second largest open expanse of peatland.
- Valcour Island
- State Forests (not all within Adirondack Park)
- Bombay State Forest - Franklin County
- Cadyville State Forest - Clinton County
- Dannemora State Forest - Clinton County
- Deer River State Forest - Franklin County
- Dunkin's Reserve State Forest - Clinton County
- Franklin 10 State Forest - Franklin County
- Lake Desolation State Forest - Saratoga County
- Lassellsville State Forest - Fulton County
- Macomb Reservation State Forest - Clinton County
- Moon Pond State Forest - Clinton County
- Peck Hill State Forest - Fulton County
- Rock State Forest - Clinton County
- Rockwood State Forest - Fulton County
- Saint Regis State Forest - Franklin County
- Spring Brook State Forest - Clinton County
- Terry Mountain State Forest - Clinton County
- Titusville Mountain State Forest - Franklin County
- Trout River State Forest - Franklin County
- Wilderness Areas
- Blue Ridge Wilderness Area - Hamilton County
- Dix Mountain Wilderness Area - Essex County
- Giant Mountain Wilderness Area- Essex County
- High Peaks Wilderness Area
- Hoffman Notch Wilderness Area - Essex County
- Jay Mountain Wilderness Area - Essex County
- McKenzie Mountain Wilderness Area - Essex County
- Pharaoh Lake Wilderness Area - Essex, Hamilton and Warren Counties
- Pigeon Lake Wilderness Area - Hamilton County
- Sentinel Range Wilderness Area - Essex County
- Siamese Ponds Wilderness Area - Hamilton and Warren Counties
- Silver Lake Wilderness Area - Hamilton County
- West Canada Lake Wilderness Area - Hamilton County
- William C. Whitney Wilderness Area - Hamilton
- Wildlife Management Areas
- - Ausable Marsh Wildlife Management Area - Clinton County
- Carters Pond Wildlife Management Area - Greenwich, Washington County (446.5 acres)
- East Bay Wildlife Management Area - Whitehall, Washington County (38 acres)
- Kings Bay Wildlife Management Area - Champlain, Clinton County (421 acres)
- Lake Alice Wildlife Management Area - Chazy, Clinton County (1,468 acres)
- Lewis Preserve Wildlife Management Area - Altona, Clinton County. (1,356 acres)
- Montys Bay Wildlife Management Area - Beekmantown in Clinton County (216 acres)
- Parcel 45 Wildlife Management Area -
- Pauline Murdock Wildlife Management Area - Elizabethtown, Essex County (68.5 acres)
- Putts Creek Wildlife Management Area - Crown Point, Essex County (113 acres)
- Wickham Marsh Wildlife Management Area - Chesterfield, Essex County (862 acres)
- Wild Forests - There are twenty-seven areas designated as Wild Forests (although there seem to be 30 listed below!) in the Adirondack Forest Preserve totaling 1.3 million acres. (See also Unit Management Plans for State Forest Land.)
- List of State Forests by Region
- Aldrich Pond Wild Forest
Black River Wild Forest -
- Blue Mountain Wild Forest - With Management Plan (1995)
- Chazy Highlands Wild Forest
- Cranberry Lake Wild Forest
- Debar Mountain Wild Forest
- Ferris Lake Wild Forest - See also Ferris Lake Wild Forest Draft Unit Management Plan, October, 2006.
- Fulton Chain Wild Forest -
- Grass River Wild Forest
- Hammond Pond
- Horseshoe Wild Forest
- Hurricane Mountain Wild Forest
- Independence River Wild Forest
- Jessup River Wild Forest
- Lake George Wild Forest
- McKenzie Mountain Wild Forest
- Moose River Plains Wild Forest
- Raquette Boreal Wild Forest - With Raquette Boreal Draft Unit Management Plan (September 2006)
- Raquette Reservoirs Wild Forest
- Raquette River Wild Forest
- Saranac Lakes Wild Forest
- Sargents Ponds Wild Forest
- Shaker Mountain Wild Forest
- Split Rock Wild Forest
- Taylor Pond Wild Forest
- Vanderwacker Mountain Wild Forest
- Watson's East Triangle Wild Forest
- White Hill Wild Forest
- Wilcox Lake Wild Forest
- Wilmington Wild Forest
- Henry M. Beach (1863-1943) - See Adirondack Vernacular: The Photography of Henry M. Beach (2003)
- Carl Heilman II - Brant Lake
- Carrying antique Adirondack images to the global market By Erika Lorentzsen, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, October 2, 2007. Postcards by H.M. Beach, J.S. Wooley, Kolecker, McCormac, Cole Porter and Seneca Ray Stoddard are sought after today. "In order for a card to be valuable, often there needs to be an Adirondack guide in the shot." [Story is no longer available but you can contact her - elorentzsen - at adirondackdailyenterprise.com or 315-891-2600 ext 25.]
- Jim Lanthier - Lanthier, a photographer and rustic furniture maker has digitized thousands of photos by Kathleen Bigrow. See 50 years in photographs by Brittany Bombard, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 8, 2007. " A collection of more than 300,000 photos by one of the Adirondacks’ best-known photojournalists, Kathleen Bigrow - images that document five decades of the region’s history, particularly of Tupper Lake - are in the process of being digitally archived for future generations."
- Eliot Porter Collection Guide - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. In 1963 Harold Hochschild
of the Adirondack Museum asked Eliot Porter to photograph the Adirondack Park. These photographs appeared in Forever Wild: The Adirondacks.
- Gary A. Randorf (1937 - )
- Nathan Farb Studio - Located in Jay. There is a photo of Blue Ledges.
- Seneca Ray Stoddard - See Seneca Ray Stoddard : transforming the Adirondack wilderness in text and image (1999)
- Adirondack Country Homes Realty
- Adirondack Real Estate - Rob Grant & Associates, Saranac Lake
- Adirondack Waterfront Real Estate - Lake Placid.
- Annie McKinley
- Bird's Adirondack Real Estate - Old Forge
- Century 21 High Peaks Realty - With locations in Lake Placid, Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake
- Gillis Realty - Tupper Lake
- Kathy Gagnon & Associates - Keene. Offers vacation rentals
- Landvest
- Merrill L. Thomas, Inc. - Lake Placid
- Timm Associates - Blue Mountain Lake and Old Forge
- Adirondack Dining
- Buffalo Head Restaurant - Forestport (315-392-6607)
- Daikers - Old Forge
- Deer's Head Inn Restaurant - Elizabethtown
- Farmhouse Restaurant - Lake George. Located at the Top of the World Golf Resort (518-668-3000). "We've stocked our kitchen with produce from our own farm, and artisan breads from our neighbors, filled our wine celler and bar with New York wines and local briews, and created a friendly, casual atmosphere." [We enjoyed the food, service, ambiance and view at this restuarant and highly recommend it. MVA, August 25, 2007]
- Kanu - At the Whiteface Lodge in Lake Placid
- Lake Placid Pub & Brewery - (518-523-3813)
- Misty Mountain Bakery Cafe - Indian Lake (former Mountain Chalet Cafe) (518-648-0242)
- Seventh Lake House - Route. 28, between Inlet and Raquette Lake (315-357-6028)
- Sherwood Forest Bakery - Wells (518-924-7825). Stephen and Alice O'Connor, owners.
- Tip-a-Canoe Restaurant - Keene (518-576-9092)
- Turtle Island Cafe - Willsboro
- Adirondack Chairs
- Adirondack Craft - Saranac Lake
- Adirondack Mountain Club Store
- Adirondack Rugs - Lake Placid
- Adirondack Rustics Gallery - Schroon Lake (518 532-0020)
- Adirondack Store - Lake Placid & New Canaan, CT
- Adirondack Wood - "Directory of New York's Adirondack-based wood product manufacturing companies and the wood products they produce: from Adirondack chairs to fine furniture and pallets to pack baskets..."
- Adirondack Woodturner - Ken Gadway, Morrisonville (518-643 8427)
- Alpine Sport Shop - Saratoga Springs (518-584-6290)
- Arden Creek Designs - Saranac Lake
- Bookstore Plus - Lake Placid (518-523-2950)
- Cherry Gallery - Damariscotta, Maine. "Specializing in quality rustic antiques."
- C.W, Rustic Designs - Christopher Wager, Gloversville (518-661-6697
- Fact & Fiction Bookshop - Saranac Lake (518-891-8067)
- Ferguson Decoys - Woodville
- Ferris Studios - Boonville
- George Jaques Rustic Furniture - Keene Valley. Other Adirondack furniture craftman include David Garrett, Bruce Gunderson, Larry Hawkins, Tom Phillips (Tupper Lake 518-359-9648), Barry Gregson, Barney and Susan Bellinger, Ralph Kylloe, Bill Coffey.
- Havlick Snowshoe Company - Mayfield (518-661-4644)
- Hoss's Country Corner - Long Lake
- Hudson River Trading Company - North Creek
- Jim Illingworth Millwork - Adams. Custom windows, doors and moldings.
- Jon & Carla Magoun - South Paris, Maine. Rustic lake & lodge vintage canoes and boats (207-743-2040)
- Lake Placid Rug and Home - Lake Placid
- Moose Creek Ltd.
- Mountaineer - Keene Valley
- Mountainman Outdoor Supply Company - Old Forge and Inlet
- New York Folklore Society - Has Online Shopping
- Old Adirondack - Willsboro. Handcrafted cedar furniture.
- Old Forge Hardware
Old Hickory Furniture Company - Shelbyville, Indiana. Manufacturer of Adirondack style furniture.
- Ralph Kylloe Rustic Design Gallery - Lake George. Kylloe is an authority on the Indiana Hickory Furniture Movement and is
a designer for the Old Hickory Furniture Company in Shelbyville, Indiana.
- Ray Brook Frog - Rustic furniture, lighting, rugs, accessories, custom designs.
- Red Fox Books - Glen Falls (518-793-5352)
- Rustic Videos - Jim Howard & Charlie L. Sabattis
- Sampson Bog Studio - Barney Bellinger, Mayfield (518-661-6563). Bellinger will be presenting a lecture on November 15th for the Doyle+Design series at Doyle New York: "Founded by furniture artist Barney Bellinger, Sampson Bog Studio is more than a rustic furniture manufacturer. It is an art studio where bark, twigs and natural materials are gathered into the hands of an individual inspired by the romance and mystery of logging trails, wildlife refuges, fly fishing sites, and the Great Camps of the Adirondacks. Mr. Bellinger’s understanding of various woods is part book-learned and part inherited wisdom from a grandfather who worked in lumber camps in the early 1900s and spent cherished time in later years sharing secrets of the woods. Furniture created by Mr. Bellinger has been exhibited at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, the Adirondack Museum, and the Ralph Kylloe Gallery, and appears in the permanent collections of the Orvis Company and the Smithsonian Institution."
- Saranac Hollow Woodworking - Saranac. Owner Hal Moore makes Furniture and sells flooring, doors and lumber.
- Swallowtail Studio - Jay. Wayne Ignatuk "designs and builds custom furniture influenced by the "arts & crafts" movement while allowing the trees' subtle curves to effect the design." (518 946-7439)
- Tom Nicholas Custom Woodwork - Schuyler Falls
- Thomas W. Brady Furniture Maker - Bolton Landing (518-644-9801)
- William R. Gleaves Woodworking - Northville (518-863-6927)
- Youngs Studio & Gallery - Jay. Sue Burdick Young and Terry Young.
- Cascade Cross Country Ski Center - Lake Placid (518-523-9605)
- Dewey Ski Center - Harrietstown. X-C ski and snowshoe
- Gore Mountain - North Creek
- Lake Placid Olympic Region - Information about Cross-Country Skiing and Bobsled & Luge Rides.
- Lapland Lake Nordic Vacation Center - Northville (518.863.4974)
- Mount Pisgah Veterans Memorial Ski Center - Saranac Lake (518-891-0970)
- Northville-Placid Trail
- National Sports Academy (NSA) - Lake Placid. Founded in 1977 by SUNY Cortland graduate David M. Wenn. NSA is a "private college preparatory school that provides potential Olympians the opportunities to train in their sports utilizing the Olympic venues..."
- Oak Mountain Ski Resort - Speculator (518-548-3606)
- Snow Ridge - Turin
- Stephens Pond, Cascade Pond and Tirrell Road
- Titus Mountain - Seven miles south of Malone
- West Mountain Ski Resort - Glens Falls (518-793-6606)
- Whiteface Mountain - Wilmington
- Whortleberry Pond
- Adirondack Association of Towns and Villages
- Adirondack Base Camp
- Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) - "14-county association in New York’s North Country that is committed to economic improvement."
- Adirondack Region - Adirondack Regional Tourism Council
- Adirondack Regional Airport - Saranac Lake. Served by Big Sky Airlines
- Adirondacks.com
- Adirondacks Speculator Region Chamber of Commerce
- Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Tourism (CAST)
- Central Adirondack Association - Has information on members
- Fulton County
- Franklin County Tourism - Has information on the Great Adirondack Birding Celebration June 6-8, 2008 at the AOA Visitor Interpretive Center at Paul Smiths.
- Hamilton County - Has information on the Adirondack Birding Festival June 20-22, 2008 at Long Lake, Inlet, Indian Lake and Speculator. "Hikes, canoe trips, walks, seminars, exhibits and lectures."
- Indian Lake Chamber of Commerce - Has useful lodging information
- Insider's Guide to the Adirondacks
- Lake Placid - Guide to the area
- Lake Placid/Essex County Convention and Visitors Bureau
- Newcomb
- Old Forge - Town of Webb Visitor Information Center
- Olympic Regional Development Authority - Lake Placid
- Paul Smith's College - They have a Weather Station. The Sequel, a quarterly publication for the Paul Smith's College community, has archives back to 1999.
- Plattsburgh North Country Chamber of Commerce
- Raquette Lake Navigation Company
- Saranac Lake - Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce
- Schroon Lake Chamber of Commerce
- Town of Gouverneur
- Tupper Lake - Official website of the Tupper Lake Chamber of Commerce
- Whiteface Mountain
- Adirondack Expeditions
- Adirondack Forty-Sixers Records, 1933-2004 - "Organization that was begun in 1936 by Ernest R. Ryder and Edward L. Hudowalski as a social club for those individuals who had successfully climbed to the summit of the forty-six peaks in the Adirondack Mountain Range that are four thousand feet or higher in elevation. It was originally known as the Troy Forty-Sixers, as the founders and other early members were residents of that city and surrounding communities. In 1948 it was formally incorporated as the Adirondack Forty-Sixers in an effort to secure a larger geographic base from which it could attract new members. Today, it has members from almost every state and some foreign countries, though the large majority is from New York and other northeastern states. The organization meets several times a year offering special programs not only on mountain climbing, but also on such topics as history, ecology, and geology of the Adirondacks. In addition, they hold an annual business meeting to recognize new members, elect officers, adopt a budget, and consider other organizational matters. The annual business meeting is generally held in May. There is also a special category known as the Winter 46ers to recognize individuals who have climbed all the high peaks during the winter months when weather conditions make the task especially difficult." [Catalog Notes, Manuscripts and Special Collections, New York State Library]
- Adirondack Forty-Sixer Page - Official site. See also list of the 46 Adirondack High Peaks.
- Adirondack Forum - With Archive
- Adirondack Journey - Online guide book and photo journal for hikers.
- Adirondack Mountain Club
- Adirondack Trails: Central Region. Editied by Laurence T. Cagle
- Adirondack Park Trails Illustrated Map Series - Waterproof and tear-resistant topagraphic maps ($11.95 each) are published by the National Geographic Society in corporation with the Adirondack Moundain Club. There are five maps in the series:
- Adirondack Park: Lake Placid / High Peaks (#742). See also National Geographic Online Store
- Adirondack Park: Lake George / Great Sacandaga (#743) See also National Geographic Online Store
- Adirondack Park: Northville / Raquette Lake (#744). See also National Geographic Online Store
- Adirondack Park: Old Forge / Oswegatchie (#745). See also National Geographic Online Store
- Adirondack Park: Saranac / Paul Smiths (#746). See also National Geographic Online Store
- Adirondack Sports and Fitness - Monthly magazine provides access to some of its Back Issues and has good articles on hiking and canoeing including:
- As Wild as it Gets: Oswegatchie River and Wolf Pond in the Five Ponds Wilderness
- Gill Brook, Fish Hawk Cliffs & Indian Head
- More than Mountains: Fall Hiking & Backpacking in the Foothills of the Dix Range
- Kayaking & Canoeing: Raquette Lake to Blue Mountain Lake
- Hiking Catamount Mountain
- Adirondack Trail Information - New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
- Blue Ledge - Dennis Aprill describes this hike in his Outdoor Perspective column, Hikes and trails off the beaten path can be adventurous, April 21, 2002, Plattsburgh Press-Republican. See Also the ADK's Blue Ledges - An Interesting Spot Along the Wild Hudson. Aprill also recommends Coon Mountain, outside Wadams in Essex County and Silver Lake Mountain in
Try the low peaks this fall.
- Hiking in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains: A Pathfinder - A bibliography of books on hiking by Renate Dunsmore, a librarian at Onondaga County Public Library.
- Indian Lake Chamber of Commerce - Provides information on hiking.
- North Country National Scenic Trail - "Premier footpath that stretches for about 4,600 miles linking communities, forests, and prairies across seven northern states." One of the New York trails includes 10 miles running parallel to the Black River Feeder Canal from Boonville to Forestport. There's information on the New York trails.
- Northville-Placid Trail - Created by the Adirondack Mountain Club in 1922, this north-south trail runs from Sacandaga reservoir to Lake Placid - 133 miles - and is maintained by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. See GORP - Northville-Placid Trail for detailed descriptions of the various sections. The shore of Moose Pond is a good camping spot. ADK's guidebook, Adirondack Trails: Northville-Placid Trail, is an excellent resource. Dave Nethaway's The Northville-Placid Trail is also useful.
- Northern Forest Canoe Trail - Old Forge to Fort Kent, Maine - 740 miles
- Saratoga Sport and Social Club - "Mission is to promote a sense of community between outdoor enthusiasts, clubs and businesses. Since its inception in the winter of 2005, over 300 members have expanded their circle of friends, found adventure hiking, skiing, biking, kayaking and climbing among other pursuits."
- Views from the Top - Has information on Current New York Trail Conditions
- Eastern Clinton County, NY - National Weather Service
- Eastern Essex County, NY - National Weather Service
- McCauley Mountain Webcam - Old Forge
