Hike Belfry Mountain
Belfry Mountain is a short hike to a small mountain with firetower with a big view in the Town of Moriah in the Champlain Valley Belfry Mountain 0.45 miles (0.9 miles round-trip) Hammond Pond Wild [...]
Hike Baxter Mountain
The hike up Baxter Mountain is short and easy and leads to a beautiful summit with a series of lookouts with sweeping views of the High Peaks Baxter Mountain 1.5 miles (3 miles round-trip) Hammond [...]
Hike Bald Mountain (Giant Mountain Wilderness)
Bald Mountain is a challenging hike with numerous small lookouts that leads to sweeping views of Giant Mountain and Rocky Peak Mountain Bald Mountain 3.9 miles (7.8 round-trip) Giant Mountain Wilderness Elizabethtown, Essex County Hiking, [...]
Hike Baldface Mountain
Baldface Mountain is a short paddle across Indian Lake to a short hike to an open mountain summit with sweeping views of Indian Lake and surrounding mountains Baldface Mountain 0.8 miles (1.6 round-trip) Indian Lake, [...]
Hike Baker Mountain
Baker Mountain is an short 0.9-mile hike to rocky outcrops with sweeping views of the Village of Saranac Lake and the surrounding lakes and mountains Baker Mountain 0.9 mile (1.8 round-trip) North Elba, Essex County [...]
Hike Auger Falls
Auger Falls is a short hike to a beautiful ravine and waterfall south of Speculator Auger Falls 0.4 mile (0.8 round-trip/1.2 mile loop) Wells, Hamilton County Siamese Ponds Wilderness Hiking, Snowshoeing Level of Difficulty: Easy [...]
Oral Arguments at the Court of Appeals was the Last Stop in PROTECT’s 8-Year Legal Fight to Defend Forever Wild
Oral arguments were made on March 23, 2021 at the New York Court of Appeals in lawsuit by Protect the Adirondacks against the Department of Environmental Conservation and Adirondack Park Agency over alleged heavy tree [...]
New York State Assembly and State Senate Release Budgets with Big News for Adirondack Park
The New York State Assembly hit a home run in its fiscal year 2021-22 New York State budget with the historic increase of the Environmental Protection Fund. The New York State Senate hit one out of [...]
Thoughts on the High Peaks Strategic Planning Advisory Committee final report
New High Peaks Advisory Group report calls for broad, long-term reforms of Forest Preserve management. The eagerly awaited final report of the High Peaks Strategic Planning Advisory Group (HPAG) is out. It was worth the [...]
Adirondack Park Agency Large-scale Subdivision Application process fails its first test
The APA gets low marks for its inability to meaningfully improve or change a 34-lot subdivision in the southern Adirondacks. After 2-year review, the project is barely changed from the original submission. A proposed 34-lot [...]