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The Adirondack Park is a park in northeastern New York protecting the Adirondack Mountains. The park was established in 1892 for "the free use of all the people for their health and pleasure", and for watershed protection. [2] At 6.1 million acres (2.5 × 10 ^ 6 ha), it is the largest park in the contiguous United States. [3]
The Adirondack Mountains ( / ˌædɪˈrɒndæk / AD-i-RON-dak) [1] are a massif of mountains in Northeastern New York which form a circular dome approximately 160 miles (260 km) wide and covering about 5,000 square miles (13,000 km 2 ). [2] The region contains more than 100 peaks, including Mount Marcy, which is the highest point in New York at ...
View of Fourth Lake from Bald Mountain. The Fulton Chain of Lakes is a string of eight lakes located in the Adirondack Park in upstate New York, United States. The chain is the dammed-up Moose River, and the dam which creates the chain holds back nearly 6.8 billion US gallons (26,000,000 m 3) of water. [1]
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Severe Weather. The Northville–Lake Placid Trail, also known as the NPT, [1] is a lightly travelled foot trail that runs 138 miles (214 km) through the Adirondack Park in northern New York State. It was laid out by the Adirondack Mountain Club in 1922 and 1923 and is maintained by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Darkness descended, the air caught a quick chill, and a near-night sky appeared in Old Forge, one of the lucky places in New York to fall under the shadow of a new moon during the Great American ...
1957. Grant Cottage State Historic Site is an Adirondack mountain cottage on the slope of Mount McGregor in the town of Moreau, New York. Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, died of throat cancer at the cottage on July 23, 1885. The house was maintained as a shrine to U.S. Grant following his death by the Mount McGregor ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 17:58, 12 December 2007: 936 × 768 (100 KB): Jackaranga {{Information |Description= Locator map showing Adirondack and Catskill Parks in NY |Source=self-made from Image:Adirondack Park map with Blue Line.svg, originally from Image:New York blank.svg |Date= 20071212 |Author= [[User:Jackaranga|Jackaran