Adirondack Explorer

The developers of the proposed Adirondack Club and Resort at Big Tupper were successfully sued by their attorneys and must pay their legal team $9 million, according to court papers. The case against Preserve Associates LLC, also known as Tupper Lake

On May 2, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 231-190 to pass its first climate bill in nearly a decade. Known as the Climate Action Now Act, it urges President Donald Trump to remain in the Obama-era Paris climate accord and take steps to reach

Photographer Carl Heilman takes readers on a journey through his mountains in his newest book, “The Trails of the Adirondacks.” Released this spring by the Adirondack Mountain Club and Rizzoli International publishers, it is part of a series highligh

Adirondack communities are tackling a grocery divide. Drive around the park and, upon quick glance, it appears much of the health and wealth of a community can be determined by the access residents have to groceries in general and in particular fresh

It’s always a bit of a surprise when you look down at a trail register and see “We saw a bear!” scribbled in the notes section of the last entry. That’s what happened when I started my hike at Cook Mountain on a Saturday in early June. Immediately se

Eric Kreckel fixes his stare at the road ahead. He leans over his handlebars and sees black bordered by green. He sees possibilities. “‘Can’t’ isn’t in my vocabulary,” he says. As he trains for his second Ironman Lake Placid this summer, he knows he

For the past 44 years a small group of hardy volunteers has encamped each May on the peninsula at the Crown Point State Historic Site in the shadow of ancient forts—ground where Samuel de Champlain, Benedict Arnold, Ethan Allen and great Native Ameri

Those of us who are of a certain age and rural upbringing are no strangers to mountain biking. Except we didn’t call it mountain biking. We called it, if we called it anything, ripping down a forested hillside at truly stupid speeds, hopping logs, do

The array of Adirondack environmental advocates requires a program for outsiders to keep straight. A dozen major organizations will spend more than $15 million this year—most collected from contributors or members—to help protect ecosystems, waterway

Three thousand lakes and ponds providing the Adirondack Park endless beauty, recreation and, in some cases, drinking water, are in more danger than ever of being contaminated with non-native species that don’t belong in this part of the world. New Yo

Nostalgia is a powerful force. I’ve been avoiding the High Peaks area when choosing hikes to do with my sons, because of hiker traffic. The High Peaks are a magnet for day trippers and hard-core enthusiasts alike, but there are so many other places t

On a bank of the Ausable River’s West Branch, just upstream of its confluence with the East Branch in Au Sable Forks, this spring’s high water deposited a large twisted sheet of rusted steel, looking like a beached whale, opposite the Tahawus Cultura

Who’s there?” The opening line of “Hamlet” was the question my wife, Debbie, and I asked ourselves upon buying a sagging old camp and 18 Adirondack acres along the Saranac River. The property was ecologically diverse. It included upland and wetland,

While climbing Wright to bag my first of the 46 High Peaks, I couldn’t help but notice several pairs of birds, invisible in the lush, hysterically chartreuse leaves of early spring, calling back and forth to each other from what seemed a few inches a

What’s better than the challenge of using one fly to fool and land as many trout as possible over a weekend? Well how about two flies? That’s how Wilmington’s Whiteface Mountain Regional Visitors Bureau has lured generations of anglers over the last

A few years ago, while standing atop Mount Colvin, the temptation to add Nippletop Mountain to an already long day nagged at me. I had never hiked Nippletop, nor Dial Mountain, on the same ridge, a couple of 4,000-footers that had long been on my mus

One of the Adirondack Park’s biggest boosters had never even visited before moving here almost 40 years ago. In fact, her only trip to the U.S. from her home in Nova Scotia before then was her family’s quick drive across the bridge to the U.S. side o

Moriah Town Board Member Matt Brassard spent much of the late spring and early summer knocking on doors in the blue-collar communities of Mineville and Witherbee in the eastern Adirondacks, trying his best to save residents millions of dollars. It wa

The woodlands of eastern North America support the richest diversity of salamanders in the world, with more than a quarter of the 730-plus species. A dozen species occur in the Adirondacks, and one—the small (3- to 5-inch) eastern red-backed salamand

Adirondack paddlers have had much to celebrate in recent years as the state’s acquisition of former Finch, Pruyn lands has opened up spectacular waterways to the public, including Boreas Ponds and the Essex Chain Lakes. But another land deal two deca

The nature writings of Bernd Heinrich are an acquired taste, and one I acquired in a hurry in 1984 when my mother gave me a copy of his first nature book, “In a Patch of Firewood.” Harvard University Press published that engaging collection of tales

It’s hard to beat a campfire on a summer night, but it’s important to consider its impacts on the environment. The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics recommends that people consider whether it’s appropriate to build a fire, whether its allowed,