Adirondacks
The Adirondack Park is both the largest and the first government-protected park in the contiguous United States. It covers a vast expanse—bigger than New Hampshire—of rugged, thickly wooded, mountainous terrain in northeast New York State.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Lake Placid and Lake George.
Lake Placid
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Lake Placid is a village of 2,400 people in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, near the center of the town of North Elba and named after an adjacent lake.
Lake George
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Nestled in the pristine Adirondacks, Lake George is a year-round tourist destination. It is 45 minutes outside of Saratoga Springs and 1 hour north of Albany, and is worth the effort it takes to get there.
Saranac Lake
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Saranac Lake is a village in the Adirondacks in New York state. It lies in the towns of Harrietstown, St. Armand, and North Elba, inside the boundaries of Adirondack State Park.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Wilmington and Ticonderoga.
Wilmington
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Wilmington is a town of 1,100 people in the Adirondacks near Lake Placid, New York. It is home to Whiteface Mountain and the North Pole Santa theme park.
Ticonderoga
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Ticonderoga is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 5,042 at the 2010 census. The name comes from the Mohawk tekontaró:ken, meaning "it is at the junction of two waterways".
Elizabethtown
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Elizabethtown is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,163 at the 2010 census. The county seat of Essex County is the hamlet of Elizabethtown, located in the northern part of the town.
Westport
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Westport is a town in Essex County, New York, United States overlooking Lake Champlain. The population was 1,320 at the 2020 census. The town is on the eastern border of the county and is 41 miles south of Plattsburgh and 103 miles south of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Keene
The tiny Adirondack town of Keene or Keene Valley, with a population of only 1,100, provides an array of services for campers and travelers, including food, lodging, and outdoor equipment.
Old Forge
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Old Forge is a village of about 750 people in the Adirondacks. As one of the western gateway communities of the Adirondack Park, Old Forge forms an extensive business district, primarily directed at tourism especially during the summer months.
Essex
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Essex is a town in Essex County, New York, where the Adirondack Park borders Lake Champlain on the New York-Vermont border.
Crown Point
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Crown Point is a town in Essex County, New York, United States, located on the west shore of Lake Champlain. The population was 2,024 at the 2010 census.
Chester
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The Town of Chester is made of several communities in the Adirondacks around the small hamlet of Chestertown. Other hamlets within the town boundaries include Pottersville, Friends Lake, Loon Lake, and Schroon Lake.
Tupper Lake
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Tupper Lake is a town in the southwest corner of Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,147 at the 2020 census. The town contains a village also called Tupper Lake.
Jay
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Jay is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 2,506 at the 2010 census. The town is named after John Jay, governor of New York when the town was formed.
Blue Mountain Lake
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Blue Mountain Lake is a scenic hamlet in the town of Indian Lake of Hamilton County, New York, United States, at the intersection of New York Routes 28, 28N and 30.
North Pole
North Pole is a small hamlet in the town of Wilmington in Essex County NY, near Whiteface Mountain and Lake Placid.Adirondacks
- Type: New York state park
- Description: protected area encompassing much of the northeastern lobe of New York, United States largest park in the contiguous United States largest National Historic Landmark
- Also known as: “Adirondack Park” and “Adirondack State Park”
- Location: New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
44° northLongitude of center
-74.3° or 74° 18′ westWikidata ID
Q357550
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Adirondacks” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حديقة أديرونداك”
- Catalan: “Adirondack Park”
- Chinese: “阿迪朗达克公园”
- Dutch: “Adirondack Park”
- French: “parc Adirondack”
- French: “Parc Adirondack”
- French: “Parc d’État de Adirondack”
- French: “Parc des Adirondacks”
- German: “Adirondack Mountains”
- German: “Adirondack Park”
- German: “Adirondack State Park”
- Hebrew: “הרי אדירונדאקס”
- Hebrew: “הרי האדירונדק”
- Hebrew: “פארק אדירונדק”
- Italian: “Adirondack Park”
- Japanese: “アディロンダック・パーク”
- Japanese: “アディロンダック公園”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Adirondack statspark”
- Norwegian: “Adirondack Park”
- Persian: “پارک آدیرونداک”
- Portuguese: “Parque Adirondack”
- Russian: “Адирондак”
- Russian: “Адирондакский парк”
- Russian: “Парк Адирондак”
- Spanish: “Parque Adirondack”
- Spanish: “Parque de Adirondack”
- Urdu: “ایڈی رانڈیک پارک”
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