The DEC will host guided First Day Hikes on New Year’s Day to celebrate the start of 2026 in nature.

It can be tough this time of year to find parking at some of the busier Adirondack trailheads. There were two shuttle systems for hikers that helped ease those parking problems, but one won’t be ...

LAKE PLACID — Most days this summer, long before the sun peeks out over the tops of the Adirondack Mountains, the parking lot at the Adirondack Loj trailhead is full. The spots in the gravel lot, some ...

More than five hours from the hustle and bustle of Manhattan in the Adirondack Mountains is one of the most thrilling hikes New York State has to offer. The Adirondacks are known as one of the best ...

Winter hiking in the Adirondacks offers unique beauty and quieter trails, but proper preparation is essential for safety, according to Daria Stacy, Education Director with the Adirondack Mountain Club ...

“It’s real simple: There’s a guaranteed view,” said Jim Schneider, one of the creators of the Adirondack Mountain Club Fire Tower Challenge – more commonly known as the Adirondack Fire Tower Challenge ...

Welcome the new year in the great outdoors with a First Day hike at the Adirondack Interpretive Center (AIC) in Newcomb. The AIC, part of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), ...

"Few fully understand what the Adirondack wilderness really is. It is a mystery even to those who have crossed and recrossed it by boats along its avenues—the lakes—and on foot through its vast and ...

This month the Alzheimer’s Association’s Northeastern New York chapter is organizing a hiking challenge to raise money and awareness, spotlighting the more than 6 million Americans living with the ...

Americans are living — and working, and playing, and battling illness — longer. In the first part of our special series on aging, we meet an avid hiker who has hiked all of New York’s highest peaks, ...