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 portion of the Adirondack Rail Trail for winter.

New York state residents and visitors are being encouraged to participate by doing any number of environmental stewardship work around their home or vacation spot — cleaning up campgrounds after a busy camping season, planting native plant species, removing invasive species, picking up trash and debris or maintaining hiking trails.

There are also four site-specific cleanup and improvement events in the Adirondack Park on this day — work finishing fences on the rail trail in Saranac Lake, wildflower work at the Adirondack Interpretive Center in Newcomb, raking and campground cleanup at Lake Harris Campground in Newcomb and raking and painting at Rogers Rock Campground in Ticonderoga.

“As record numbers of visitors explore the unparalleled beauty of 6.5 million acres in the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserve, the need for stewardship and conservation is a responsibility we all share to help protect New York’s outdoor spaces for years to come,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement.

The work on the Adirondack Rail Trail is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and is for adults 18 and over as well as high school seniors. The work will entail clear coating and treating the cut ends and top surfaces of new timber rail fences along the open first phase of the trail from Fowler’s Crossing on state Route 86 outside of Saranac Lake through the center of town.

If enough volunteers show up, organizers say they will also tackle the section from Fowler’s Crossing to Lake Placid.

Volunteers can pick up supplies and get instructions at the state DEC offices at 1115 state Route 86 in Ray Brook on that day. A rain date for the work has been set for Sunday.

Kathleen Martens, a consultant with the Adirondack Rail Trail Association, said they expecting around a dozen people to attend. She said DEC brought the idea to ARTA. ARTA has a Volunteer Stewardship Agreement with the DEC, and after years of work to get the rail trail created, is now focused on maintaining and improving it.

Martens said ARTA is planning for more of these stewardship days, including ones for removing invasive species and trail clean-ups. They also hope to start up a trail ambassador program to teach about trail etiquette, which Martens said has been a bit of a problem as people get used to the trail.

To register for the volunteer day at the Adirondack Rail Trail in Saranac Lake go to tinyurl.com/mafzuyxh.

This stewardship day is the third in the new Love Our New York Lands stewardship campaign, which kicked off in April with the Canal Clean Sweep and then I Love My Park Day in May. Coming up is Fish and Wildlife Day on Sept. 28. This campaign is organized by Parks and Trails New York, the DEC, the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and the New York State Canal Corporation.

The event also complements Hochul’s “Get Offline, Get Outside” campaign, which encourages New Yorker kids and families to put down their phones, get off line and touch grass in the interest of mental and physical health.

An overview of the event can be found at ptny.org/lovenylands, where registrations for all the site-specific volunteer days can be found.