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Outdoors

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 ...

Experts: Smoke hazards are difficult to predict

SARANAC LAKE — Smoke from Canadian wildfires made a return to the Tri-Lakes region for much of last week. Experts say that while the area should not expect any smoke the rest of this week, predicting when the next spell of poor air quality will occur remains difficult. A key to ...