This is the latest mural to crop up on this intersection in the past few years — with Nip Rogers and Peter Seward’s mural of the Saranac Lake community in the Rusty Nail parking lot opening in 2022 and Peter Allen’s murals coating the Rusty Nail being an ongoing multiyear endeavor.

Burpoe’s mural actually shares a similar color scheme with these murals.

“I want us to do more,” Burpoe said. “Especially now that I’ve got some paint. I think there’s tons of walls that are ready and primed to have murals.”

He has a dream to replicate Denver, Colorado’s “Crush Walls” festival where artists turn walls in the RiNo neighborhood into canvases for murals.

Michael Burpoe puts some finishing touches on the paint on the new mural he led the creation of on the corner of Broadway and Bloomingdale Avenue in Saranac Lake on Monday. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)

“If we want to say that we’re the arts town, then it’s time for us to be the arts town,” he said.

The landscape of the new mural, with its mountains and lakes, was inspired by Burpoe’s love of fantasy novel maps.

Locals will notice Lake Colby Beach and can identify the roads leading to Lake Placid, Tupper Lake, Lake Clear and Bloomingdale.

A compass rose marks right where the mural is.

The mural is like an album with a host of featured artists. Burpoe’s artistic friends each put their own mark on the painting.

Local artists worked in the rain and shine this week to paint a new mural on the side of 60-62 Broadway in Saranac Lake. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)

Shawn Rohe painted a man and woman tending a campfire.

IPW-101 member Dan King painted the Winter Carnival Ice Palace on the shore of Lake Flower.

Kathy Ford painted a leaping rainbow trout in the bottom left-hand corner, as well as the Burpoe and Williams family crests in the bottom right.

Burpoe’s friends from New York City visited to help. His parents Tim and Sue were there every day in the rain and cold.

Off to the left, Verplanck Colvin and Mills Blake stand on a mountaintop, gazing at the wilderness. The two legendary surveyors of the Adirondacks who first plotted the High Peaks region in the 1800s.

Burpoe moved back to his hometown in September and started working on the plans for the mural in October. This is the first large-scale mural he’s led. His first mural was in the Saranac Lake High School — a big “SL” logo next to gym entrance — but it was painted over last year.

The wall where the mural rests has historically been an artistic wall.

In 1996, local students and community artists created a 15-by-8-foot mosaic on the wall out of pottery shards, glass and rock titled “Museaic” during the “Festival of the Lakes.” It had fallen into disrepair by the time the Williams brothers bought the building last year.

The brothers — Johnny and Jimmy — also own the Bitters and Bones brewery across the street.

On Monday, the group of artists were toasting with the brewery’s new juicy, hoppy IPA, which shares a name with the words Burpoe painted on the bottom of the mural — “Real Home Town.”