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Outdoors

Stewardship Day is Saturday

SARANAC LAKE — The state is promoting its first-ever Adirondack and Catskill Park Day on Saturday as a time to enjoy the outdoors while giving back to state lands. There are a few site-specific projects planned, including one that will focus on preparing the railings of the Saranac Lake ...

State spends millions for forest ranger overtime

In early March, spring teased hikers at trailheads, but winter still reigned on Adirondack peaks. In three days, hikers on four of the state’s tallest mountains called for help. Rob Praczkajlo answered them all. “I can’t stand when I miss an incident,” the 51-year-old forest ranger ...

Gasoline-fed Goose Island wildfire injures campers

SARANAC LAKE — Firefighters knocked down a wildfire started by an out-of-control campfire on Lower Saranac Lake's Goose Island on Tuesday night in the Saranac Lake Islands Campground and Day Use Area. The Saranac Lake Volunteer Rescue Squad assessed one camper for burns on his legs and ...

Second phase of Adirondack Rail Trail now complete

LAKE CLEAR — Around 60 people, many of them wearing helmets, filled a clearing at a junction of the Adirondack Rail Trail near Little Green Pond on Monday to mark the official opening of the second phase of the 34-mile trail — a former railroad corridor connecting the villages of Tupper ...

90-Miler returns Sept. 6

SARANAC LAKE — While Labor Day will draw the busy summer season to a close, the Tri-Lakes region has one more surge in activity on the books: The 90-Miler. The race attracts more than 600 paddlers from Old Forge to Saranac Lake in early September every year. Formally known as the Adirondack ...