Adirondack Mountains
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The Adirondack Mountains are a massif of mountains in Northeastern New York State which form a circular dome approximately 160 miles wide and covering about 5,000 square miles. The region contains mor
The Adirondack Mountains seen in winter
Green diopside and gray/white calcite in marble from the Adirondack Mountains
Whiteface Mountain (1,483 m or 4,867 ft) is the fifth-highest mountain in New York, and one of the High Peaks of the Adirondack Mountains.
The Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York form the southernmost zone in the Eastern forest-boreal transition ecoregion of North America
Adirondack Park
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The Adirondack Park is the designation for a large area of northeastern New York centered on the Adirondack Mountains. Like Catskill Park to the south, the area is unusual in the United States because
Adirondack Mountains
…on the north, northeast; the Appalachian Plateau to the south, southwest; and the Valley and Ridge to the southeast. The entire region lies within Adirondack Park, a New York state protected area of over 6,000,000 acres (2,400,000 ha). The park was established in 1892 by the state legislature to protect the…
Long Pond, in the Saint Regis Canoe Area
A guide (left), his sport, and his Adirondack guideboat and pack basket
Sign along northbound NY 30 entering Adirondack Park
DEC sign marking state-land boundary