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The Sentinel Range Wilderness Area, an Adirondack Park unit of New York's Forest Preserve, is located in the towns of Wilmington, North Elba and Keene, Essex County. It is bounded by NY 86 on the north, NY 73 on the south, and private lands on the east and west.
Most of New York's legally recognized wilderness areas are managed by the state, part of its constitutionally-declared Forest Preserve in the Adirondack and Catskill parks. There is only one wilderness area on federal land protected by the U.S. National Wilderness Act of 1964.
Permissible activities on New York state forest lands include hunting, trapping, fishing, hiking, snowshoeing, cross-county skiing, horseback riding, snowmobiling, and camping, although some properties prohibit some of these activities. [2] Motorized vehicle use is prohibited except for on specified roads and trails.
The McKenzie Mountain Wilderness Area, an Adirondack Park unit of the Forest Preserve, lies in western Essex County in the towns of St. Armand, North Elba and Wilmington.In general, the Saranac River and Franklin Falls Pond border on the north; the Wilmington-Franklin Falls road, the Whiteface Mountain Memorial Highway and the west branch of the Ausable River form the eastern boundary; the ...
Wilmington is a town in northern Essex County, New York, United States located within the Adirondack Park. [3] The population was 1,253 at the 2010 census. [4] The town is named after the town of Wilmington, Vermont. Wilmington is on the county's northern border and is southwest of Plattsburgh. It is in the Whiteface region of the Adirondack Park.
The only significant difference between New York's wilderness policy and the federal government's is that the former limits the classification to contiguous parcels of at least 10,000 acres (40 km 2), instead of 5,000 (20 km 2). Currently, approximately 1.1 million acres (4,400 km 2) of the Forest Preserve is designated as wilderness.
The High Peaks Wilderness Area is the largest wilderness area of the Forest Preserve in the U.S. state of New York.It is located in three counties and six towns in the Adirondack Park: Harrietstown in Franklin County, North Elba, Keene, North Hudson and Newcomb in Essex County and Long Lake in Hamilton County.
New York State Route 431 leads west from NY 86 near the center of Wilmington 8 miles (13 km) nearly to the summit of Whiteface Mountain. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Wilmington CDP has a total area of 8.3 square miles (21.6 km 2), of which 8.3 square miles (21.4 km 2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km 2), or 1.05%, is water.