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Designated NHL. May 23, 1963. 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 × 106 ha), it is the largest park in the contiguous United States.
The Adirondack Mountains (/ ˌædɪˈrɒndæk / AD-i-RON-dak) [1] are a massif of mountains in Northeastern New York which form a circular dome approximately 160 miles (260 km) wide and covering about 5,000 square miles (13,000 km 2). [2] The region contains more than 100 peaks, including Mount Marcy, which is the highest point in New York at ...
Whiteface Mountain is the fifth-highest mountain in the U.S. state of New York, and one of the High Peaks of the Adirondack Mountains, located in the town of Wilmington in Essex County. Set apart from most of the other High Peaks, the summit offers a 360-degree view of the Adirondacks and clear-day glimpses of Vermont and Canada, where Montreal ...
Lake George, 1862, painted by Martin Johnson Heade. Lake George, c.1860, painted by John Frederick Kensett. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza [ 1 ] Lake George, nicknamed the Queen of American Lakes, [ 2 ] is a long, narrow oligotrophic lake located at the southeast base of the Adirondack Mountains, in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York.
The Great Sacandaga Lake (formerly the Sacandaga Reservoir) is a large lake situated in the Adirondack Park in northern New York in the United States. The lake has a surface area of about 41.7 square miles (108 km 2) at capacity, and the length is about 29 miles (47 km). The word Sacandaga means "Land of the Waving Grass" in the native Mohawk ...
168,920 acres (683.6 km 2) Governing body. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The West Canada Lake Wilderness Area is an Adirondack Park Forest Preserve management unit in the State of New York, USA. The area contains 168 bodies of water covering 2,400 acres (9.7 km 2), 78.3 miles (126 km) of foot trails, and 11 lean-tos.
High Peaks Wilderness Area. 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.
The Fulton Chain of Lakes is a string of eight lakes located in the Adirondack Park in upstate New York, United States. The chain is the dammed-up Moose River, and the dam which creates the chain holds back nearly 6.8 billion US gallons (26,000,000 m 3) of water. [1] The lakes are located in Herkimer and Hamilton Counties.