State captures bear that raided Lake Colden campsites
On Monday morning the state captured the large male black bear at Marcy Dam and planned to kill it because of its strong conditioning to human foods.
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High Peaks advisers suggest crowd strategies, hold off on hiker permit plan
The High Peaks Strategic Planning Advisory Group released recommendations for visitor management.
Up, up and away in the High Peaks
The view from the cliff is fantastic. Ridges of green trees roll away toward the horizon, below the dark shadow of more distant mountains. It’s a four-mile hike to get here, which keeps away most climbers.
DEC: Avoid the high-elevation trails
It's dry down here, but wet up there
State group privately debates High Peaks crowd solutions that could affect this summer’s visitors
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
The shuttles will operate 16 hours a day and pass every Route 73 trailhead once every half hour.
2019 Adirondack stories of the year
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
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
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
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.