For visitors, is fall the new summer?
2021 ROOST visitors survey reveals a return to pre-covid numbers, for the most part.
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Take a number or wait in line?
Park managers aim for ease and access with reservations, but there are trade-offs as well
Word of Life Lodge center of a $21 million project
By James Odato
Developers plan family destination in Schroon Lake
Winter magic, in ice
By Holly Riddle
Ice Castles attraction brings wintertime magic, new tourism opportunity to Lake George
How successful park shuttles could be an example for the Adirondacks
Are hiker shuttles part of the problem or a solution?
Has any park gotten it right? Can we?
As mountain communities grapple with how to best manage increase in visitors, Explorer looks to how other places are dealing By Gwendolyn Craig The Mountain Wanderer book and map store on the Kancamagus Highway in New Hampshire shuttered for three months last year during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Businesses across the country did…
Solutions reporting: Visitor management
The Adirondack Explorer set out during the 2021 hiking season to learn more about visitor management strategies being tried—and some that seem to be working—in other popular recreation areas.
Across the Adirondacks, tourism was up and down this summer
By Mike DeSocio
The good, the bad and the ugly of this past summer season
Lodge at Word of Life in Schroon Lake set to be sold
By James Odato
The shuttered lodge owned by Word of Life in Schroon Lake is under contract to be purchased by a private company next month.
Locals and landlords square off over short-term rentals
Town of Webb officials look to regulate short-term rentals (STRs), while locals worry about Old Forge community becoming a 'party town'