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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 Moose River Plains Wild Forest is a 64,322-acre (100.5 sq mi; 260.3 km 2) tract in the Adirondack Park in Hamilton and Herkimer counties in the state of New York in the United States of America; it is designated as Wild Forest by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. [1]
The Adirondack Mountains form the southernmost part of the Eastern forest-boreal transition ecoregion. [22] They are heavily forested, and contain one of the southernmost distributions of the taiga ecotype in North America. The forests of the Adirondacks include spruce, pine and deciduous trees. Lumbering, once an important industry, has been ...
Moose Mountain is a mountain located in Adirondack Mountains of New York located in the Town of Indian Lake southwest of Indian Lake.
The Moose River is a mountain waterway in Upstate New York which consists of three branches: the North Branch, the Middle Branch and the South Branch. The outlet of Big Moose Lake forms the North Branch in northern Herkimer County .
Big Moose Lake, at the head of the Moose River, is a large lake about five miles (8 km) north of Fourth Lake in the Adirondacks in upstate New York. The lake is within both Herkimer and Hamilton counties, [1] and covers portions of the towns of Webb and Long Lake. Located southwest of the lake is the hamlet of Big Moose. [2]
Jul. 16—On the hottest day of the year so far, Manito Park's water features provided reprieve to park visitors of multiple species escaping Sunday's 97-degree heat. In the pond at Manito Park, a ...
The Adirondack Mountains are sometimes considered part of the Appalachians but, geologically speaking, are a southern extension of the Laurentian Mountains of Canada. The Adirondacks do not form a connected range, but are an eroded dome consisting of over one hundred summits, ranging from under 1,200 feet (366 m) to over 5,000 feet (1,524 m) in ...