Adirondacks Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
protected area encompassing much of the northeastern lobe of New York, United States largest park in the contiguous United States largest National Historic Landmark
About Adirondacks
—New York State Constitution (1894), Article VII, Section 7 Tourism to the Adirondacks was initially spurred by the 1849 publication of Joel Tyler Headley'sAdirondack; or, Life in the Woodsand bypassenger rail travel. Thomas C. Durant's 1871 Adirondack Railway, the first of multiple lines into the region in an era of wildly-speculative rail construction, is now theSaratoga and North Creek Railway(aheritage railway). Because of the relative ease by which rail broughtNew York CityandAlbany's wealthy elite northward, by 1875 there were more than two hundred hotels in the Adirondacks and the well-to-do were building "Great Camps" along the lakefronts as recreational property. A Dr. Ed Trudeau, great-grandfather ofDoonesburycartoonist Garry Trudeau, opened a tuberculosis clinic (the Adirondack
Where to Stay in Adirondacks
- 🏨NYS DEC Campgrounds
Adirondacks Travel Guide Sections
Our comprehensive guide covers 14 sections including: