Thomas Durant laid the tracks on which we today enjoy riding bikes designed and built by Robert Harte. Fall is the best time to go.

On the 60th anniversary of the National Wilderness Preservation Act, Adirondack Wild observed the legacy of Paul Schaefer and Howard Zahniser.

Veronica Lake, Le Chevalier de La Luzerne, and Friedrich Ryder were among the characters brought to life in this year’s fourth annual history-themed celebration of Halloween.

On Saturday, October 12, we'll have a remarkable opportunity to meet the creative and industrious people who are running sustainable enterprises on the edge of Wilcox Lake Wild Forest.

A new home is being made for the cab of the Crane Mountain fire tower, which the DEC removed by helicopter in 1987.

If you have a boat or a friend who has a boat, you can hike Lake George's highest peak from Black Mountain Point.

For a view of the terrain of the Siamese Ponds Wilderness, it's tough to beat this gem of a mountain that's reached via a trail that runs along Thirteenth Lake.

With some planning, you can combine hikes in the First Wilderness with a range of cultural events taking place as the peak season for fall foliage approaches.

The fall colors are coming. Here are six great trails on which to enjoy the colors of fall.

Shawn and Shana Graham have been hosting rodeos and southern barbecues at the Painted Pony for more than 20 years. When the sun begins to set behind the surrounding mountains, that’s when things start heating up.

The barn Andy LeBlanc built in Thurman for Gary and Wini Martin has become a center for artisans. “It draws the most amazing people,” says Wini.

Paul Schaefer produced two films in the 1970s that document the persistent efforts by New Yorkers to conserve our Adirondack heritage. Their message is as relevant today as ever.

Howard Zahniser, who fought the Black River Wars with Paul Schaefer and succeeded in persuading Congress to pass the Wilderness Act of 1964, had a “tenacity in lost causes,” his son Ed writes n a new memoir.

Thomas Durant built a station on his Adirondack Railroad here because this bridge, built first in 1816 and rebuilt after its destruction by an ice jam in 1843, connected Chester, Johnsburg, Thurman and Warrrensburg and made possible a stagecoach line to camps and resorts on Loon and Schroon lakes.

It happened on August 14, 1901 a mile out of North River. The stage had just left Dunlap’s Hotel and rounded a turn when a masked man jumped out from the woods with a rifle.

This great Adirondack explorer devised a better way to map the Adirondack landscape. Some of the bolts he used to mark transit stations still can be found if you look as hard as Greg Schaefer does.

Working mostly in winter, lumberjacks hauled the logs by sled and stacked them by the Hudson River, waiting for the spring melt that would raise the river and increase its force.

A ‘Pictorial Map of North Creek’ created by a 32-year-old school teacher from New Rochelle has been rediscovered and restored by the North Creek Depot Museum. A new Walking Tour of North Creek will be introduced on Sunday, March 3, at the Tannery Pond Center.

The next few weeks will offer an abundance of opportunities to expand our understanding of how in the midst of the Great Depression the community of North Creek woke to the potential of becoming "America's St. Moritz" and went on to become it.

A dam proposed on the Schroon River early in the 20th century would have raised the level of Schroon Lake 30 feet and combine it with Brant and Paradox Lake. We wondered: Had this dam been built, how would this region look today?