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Woman hikes up a trail during fall wearing a red vest

The Pinnacle: 20 minutes to the top

By Tom French

Short hike offers big views across the St. Lawrence Valley

An architectural rendering of the roughly $23 million dollar Emergency Room at the Clifton-Fine Hospital in Star Lake. The new 10,000 square-foot facility, slated to be open by September, 2025, will replace the 800 square-foot facility built in 1951.

Revolutionizing rural healthcare: Clifton-Fine Hospital’s new ER

By Tom French

New ER upgrades will elevate Clifton-Fine to become first designated Rural Emergency Hospital in New York state

Colvin’s Great Corner, revisited

By William Hill

Retracing a trek to a historic marker on St. Lawrence, Herkimer county lines

An outdoors education

By Betsy Kepes

St. Lawrence University students get outdoors immersion during Adirondack Semester

The best view in St. Lawrence County

By Tom French

Worth the drive, bike and hike to get there

Choose your own waterfall adventure

By Betsy Kepes

Tooley Pond Road in St. Lawrence Co. offers a range of family-friendly hikes, sights

catamount mountain visible through the trees

All-season access to a former fire tower mountain

By Tom French

Colton's Catamount starts at lodge with the same name

Light pours into the hardwood meadow along Wood’s Trail at Higley Flow State Park as a man snowshoes on the trail

Feeling the (Higley) Flow

By Tom French

Wood's Trail offers easy backcountry access in St. Lawrence County

The Peavine Swamp Ski Trail also offers three loops to explore. As we approached the first junction from the south with Loop 3 (and spur to the lean-to), we were relieved to discover someone had already broken trail. The trail signs only give distances to the junctions with the various loops, though an estimated distance for the entire Loop 3 (point to point, not including the hike to the junction at .9 miles from the Ranger School) is 2 1/4 miles. Loop 2, also known as the Christmas Tree Loop, is the longest at 4.2 miles (point to point). Loop 1, near the Route 3 Trailhead, also known as the Balanced Rock Loop is 3 miles, plus the .3 to and from the actual start of the loop.

Peavine Swamp: Ski it while you can

By Tom French

Taking advantage of bomb cyclone snow and seeing old growth of epic proportions

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From backyard to the backcountry: A Ranger School professor’s journey to Wanakena

The Pinnacle: 20 minutes to the top

Revolutionizing rural healthcare: Clifton-Fine Hospital’s new ER

Colvin’s Great Corner, revisited

An outdoors education

The best view in St. Lawrence County

Choose your own waterfall adventure

All-season access to a former fire tower mountain

Feeling the (Higley) Flow

Peavine Swamp: Ski it while you can

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