There were seven protesters from Greater Adirondacks Bioregion Earth First! at Little Green Pond that day. Three of them were floating in inflatabl...

Last summer, a landowner abruptly closed public access to the Chimney Mountain trail, a popular day-hike in the Indian Lake area that crossed a sec...

A seaplane dropped Melanie Sawyer onto a spit of land along northern Saskatchewan’s Reindeer Lake. Sawyer’s challenge, like that of nine other comp...

The Adirondacks, with its varied forests and numerous lakes and streams, is an ideal habitat for the only hummingbird species that breeds in easter...

The spring thaw also brings warmer waters, which happen to be the preferred habitat of an invasive aquatic species that’s sparked a vigorous debate...

On April 27, 1905, a four-man “Army of Liberation” departed from Old Forge for the Fourth Lake of the Fulton Chain, two zinc-lined crates stowed ab...

Illustration by Gwen Jamison Vogel   Barbara McMartin called Canada Lake “one of the prettiest in the Adirondacks.” The prolific author—who wr...

On any given day through the heart of the 20th century, blue-collar workers in Saranac Lake could be found pounding burgers at the Dew Drop Inn on ...

Pâté chinois served in a cast-iron skillet. Chicken, stewed vegetables and gravy over biscuits. Crusty bread. If you’re craving this French-Canadia...

Illustration by Gwen Jamison Vogel   Barbara McMartin called Canada Lake “one of the prettiest in the Adirondacks.” The prolific author—who wr...

On any given day through the heart of the 20th century, blue-collar workers in Saranac Lake could be found pounding burgers at the Dew Drop Inn on ...

Pâté chinois served in a cast-iron skillet. Chicken, stewed vegetables and gravy over biscuits. Crusty bread. If you’re craving this French-Canadia...

By the time I reached the first climb of the Over Easy Mountain Bike Route, the whole canopy bowed with the weight of the rain. My single-track rib...

Standing on a shelf of rock looking toward the High Peaks, I realized my mistake. I had no headlamp, no source of light, and the sky was already a ...

When I told my 16-year-old daughter I was going on a seven-or-so-mile round-trip hike alone last September, she acted like I was marching to my doom.

Harry Greb was one of the world’s greatest professional fighters. He is still regarded as among the most accomplished pound-for-pound pugilists to ...

Adirondack chronicler and biographer Maitland De Sormo described Seneca Ray Stoddard as “gentle, easy-going, (and) unassuming.”

The North Country nukes became front page news, their fearsome firepower aimed at the Russian motherland, but also at the American psyche, which ha...

Harry Greb was one of the world’s greatest professional fighters. He is still regarded as among the most accomplished pound-for-pound pugilists to ...

Adirondack chronicler and biographer Maitland De Sormo described Seneca Ray Stoddard as “gentle, easy-going, (and) unassuming.”

The North Country nukes became front page news, their fearsome firepower aimed at the Russian motherland, but also at the American psyche, which ha...