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State group privately debates High Peaks crowd solutions that could affect this summer’s visitors
March 9, 2020
The state's High Peaks Strategic Planning Advisory Group believes it could have at least short-term recommendations for this summer.
Essex County to run free High Peaks trail buses this summer
By Tim Rowland
January 6, 2020
The shuttles will operate 16 hours a day and pass every Route 73 trailhead once every half hour.
2019 Adirondack stories of the year
December 24, 2019
Whatever you want to call it -- even if you just call it a lot of people enjoying nature -- the effort to understand and plan for the rising number of people driving to and hiking in the High Peaks dominated discussions among Adirondack Park advocates, municipal officials and resource managers in 2019.
‘Murray’s Fools’ at 150
November 29, 2019
As New York becomes more diverse, as languages other than English are spoken in every New York county, the Adirondack wilderness needs a constituency of everyone.
Keene Valley looks to better educate throngs of High Peaks hikers
By Tim Rowland
November 21, 2019
Many if not most of the hikers arriving in Keene Valley are simply on their own, and that’s led to what officials are calling a crisis of parking and a concentration of too many hikers on too few trails.
A mountain shaped by fire
By Tim Rowland
November 15, 2019
In total, about 90 acres of woods were consumed by the fire, and bordering the burn site are acres and acres of what you would expect: spruce, fir, white pine, maple, birch—but no aspen.
Adirondack advocates and officials seek a plan for high-use trails
By Mike Lynch
November 11, 2019
“I can’t go through another day like this past Saturday," Keene Town Supervisor Joe Pete Wilson said in October. "It’s beyond the capacity of a town of 1,100 to deal with. It’s just beyond our capacity."
DEC launches initiative to tackle High Peaks issues
By Mike Lynch
November 7, 2019
A new task force has been formed to take on issues related to high use in the High Peaks region, the state Department of Environmental Conservation announced Thursday.
Garden parking lot to remain closed until late September
By Mike Lynch
August 20, 2019
The Garden parking lot in Keene Valley will remain closed until at least late September.