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An Adirondack lean-to or Adirondack shelter is a three-sided log structure popularized in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York which provides shelter for campers. [1] Since their development in the Adirondacks, this type of shelter has seen use in a number of parks throughout the United States, such as Isle Royale National Park in ...
An Adirondack lean-to or Adirondack shelter is a three sided log structure popularized in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York. Lean-to structures offer shelter for campers. [ 5 ] Since their development in the Adirondacks , this type of shelter has seen use in a number of parks throughout the United States, such as Isle Royale National ...
A lean-to shelter is a simplified free-standing version of a wilderness hut with three solid walls and a single- or, in the case of an Adirondack lean-to, offset-pitched gable roof. The open side is commonly oriented away from the prevailing weather. Often it is made of rough logs or unfinished wood and used for camping.
Adirondack lean-to; Bivouac shelter - a tent, or a permanent structure (e.g., a bivacco in the Italian Alps). Bothy - a basic shelter found in rural areas in the United Kingdom, particularly Scotland; Lean-to; Log cabin - small house built from logs; Vernacular architecture - traditional architecture in a particular area
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The area is bounded on the north by Cranberry Lake, a portion of the Oswegatchie River, the road leading to Inlet and private lands; on the east by the Colton town line and private lands in the vicinity of Gull Lake, a road leading to Gull Lake and the Remsen to Lake Placid railroad; on the south by Stillwater Reservoir; on the southwest by the Pepperbox Wilderness Area and on the west by the ...
Camping was permitted anywhere, and some of the sensitive alpine environments in the Adirondack High Peaks were showing the effects. Two temporary state commissions set up to consider the future course of the Adirondacks and Catskills in the early 1970s both strongly recommended that master plans be created for state lands in both parks.