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Fall foliage in the Adirondack mountains, New York
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Adirondacks Active and Adventure Highlights

By Travel Expert: Karen Berger
  • The Adirondacks was the first great preserved wilderness, and it's still the one closest to home for New York's metropolitan hordes.
  • Here you’ll find 3,000 ponds and lakes, 2,000 miles of hiking trail, nearly 100 campgrounds and, of course, the Adirondack Mountains.
  • At the Mount Van Hoevenberg Recreation Area, the site of the 1980 Olympics has been turned into a 20-mile network of connecting cross-country ski trails built to international standards.
  • The famed Northville-Lake Placid Trail is good for hiking, and many of its 133 miles also are suitable for ungroomed, backcountry skiing in the winter.

Hotels

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The Whiteface Lodge
7 Whiteface Inn Lane
Lake Placid, NY 12946
Hotel Class: 5 class stars
Distance: 27.7 Miles
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THE HOTEL SARANAC
100 Main Street
Saranac Lake, NY 12983
Hotel Class: 3 class stars
Distance: 33.9 Miles
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Churchill House Inn
3128 Forest Dale Road
Brandon, VT 05733
Hotel Class: 3 class stars
Distance: 30.0 Miles
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Lake George Steamboat Company
Steel Pier
Lake George, New York 12845
Distance: 44.8 Miles (from destination center)
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Adirondack Museum
Rte. 30 on Blue Mountain Lake
Southern Adirondacks, New York
Distance: 46.1 Miles (from destination center)
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Fort Ticonderoga
On Lake Champlain
Southern Adirondacks, New York Map
Distance: 16.3 Miles (from destination center)
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