Wednesday, July 1, 2026 Apart from its beautiful and scenic shorelines, Big Moose Lake’s celebrated rustic architecture is uniquely distinguished by its vertical, half-log construction. At a time when there were no sawmills in the vicinity, local builders developed this construction technique by which walls of pit-sawn logs were used not only for building structures,…
Monday, August 26, 2024 An engineering marvel for its time, the Black River Canal connected the western Adirondack region to the world renowned Erie Canal, further linking Northern New York to the rest of the nation and the world. Completed in 1855, the canal featured 109 locks along its 35-mile traverse, which remains a world…
Last Offered 2021 What do you find when you go even further off the beaten track beyond the Big Moose Lake area? Well, you find some of the most unique, treasured, and isolated places in the Adirondack Park. Built as Twitchell Lake’s first inn by builder and mason Earl Covey (who you may have learned…
Last offered 2019. Not currently being offered. Old Forge is a fascinating Adirondack community. Charles Frederick Herreshoff, son-in-law to original Providence, Rhode Island-based land proprietor John Brown, inherited the land after Brown’s 1803 death. Herreshoff committed suicide in December 1819 as a result of his failure to both pay off debts and settle the area…