In Case You Need Another Reason to Visit the Adirondacks

A great photo by Pierre-Luc Bernier

Outside magazine lists part of the Adirondack portion of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail as one of the best east coast adventures. "...you’d be hard-pressed to find anything better than the 42-mile segment from the town of Long Lake, New York, to the village of Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks. This chunk, on the route of the annual Adirondack Canoe Classic, is accessible and user-friendly, with two portages and a set of locks as it traces Long Lake, the Raquette River, and the three Saranac Lakes. And the sense of wilderness is profound: once you put in, there’s just the densely forested beauty of the ’Dacks, with the High Peaks rising to the east. Lean-tos are scattered along the route" 
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