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By Tim Rowland
July 19, 2024
Neighborhood House in Keene Valley hopes to draw attention to aging population in the Adirondacks
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By Tim Rowland
July 19, 2024
Neighborhood House in Keene Valley hopes to draw attention to aging population in the Adirondacks
By Tim Rowland
May 17, 2021
The state Department of Environmental Conservation provided a written statement confirming that it will work with the local governments to create a shuttle system with restroom and parking in 2022 to "play a critical role in helping to manage sustainable visitation in the High Peaks."
By Tim Rowland
May 11, 2021
Controversial delineators on Route 73 in Keene Valley may not be permanent, depending on the results of an ongoing experiment to manage an abundance of hiker traffic, said DEC officials at a meeting Monday night in Keene.
By Tim Rowland
May 8, 2021
By Tim Rowland Someone who was apparently displeased with the state decision to cordon off parking areas on Route 73 to hiker traffic vandalized a section of “delineators,” metal pickets that were pounded into the pavement last month to prevent access to highway pull-offs. Social media photos showed the delineators bent to the ground, and…
By Tim Rowland
January 6, 2020
The shuttles will operate 16 hours a day and pass every Route 73 trailhead once every half hour.
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.
By Mike Lynch
September 24, 2019
A key gateway to the High Peaks will reopen to motor vehicles on Friday. The popular Garden parking lot in Keene Valley has been closed since the spring due to a bridge replacement project on Johns Brook Lane.
By Mike Lynch
August 20, 2019
The Garden parking lot in Keene Valley will remain closed until at least late September.