A washout at Hoel Pond earlier this spring left the tracks of the Remsen-Lake Placid Corridor hanging in mid-air. (Enterprise photo — Justin A. Levine)

SARANAC INN — Earlier this spring, a small stream flowing out of the St. Regis Canoe Area caused a major washout under the railroad tracks of the Remsen-Lake Placid Travel Corridor. The state — which owns the corridor — has no set time frame for repairs, but a spokeswoman said a fix is in the works.

The state Department of Transportation oversees the corridor, which bisects the Adirondack Park from the southwestern part to Lake Placid.

“NYSDOT was notified of the washout on May 6th and has been working to design a repair,” DOT spokeswoman Jennifer Post wrote in an email. “Once that’s completed, a contractor will make the repair as expeditiously as possible.”

The stream that caused the washout feeds into Hoel Pond from Summit Pond, as identified by a reader using a map from 1900.

The northern end of the corridor is currently idle north of Big Moose, regardless of the washout. Snowmobilers use the corridor in the winter, and the Adirondack Scenic Railroad used to use this part of it to move equipment between Utica and Lake Placid from 2000 to 2016, when it operated tourist trains in summer and fall between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid. But the railroad’s permit from the state only allows operations at the southern end of the line this year.

This is not the only part of the state-owned travel corridor where deteriorated track conditions have been reported. Also, the status of the tracks as a whole is up in the air. DOT and the state Department of Environmental Conservation are expected to release a unit management plan this summer that is likely to call for removal of the tracks between Lake Placid and Tupper Lake in favor of a multi-use trail.

A previous iteration of the UMP, which was shot down in court, also called for the state to upgrade the tracks from Big Moose to Tupper Lake for passenger and tourist train service north from Utica.