{"id":100405,"date":"2019-12-17T15:29:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T23:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/?p=100405"},"modified":"2023-09-07T23:49:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T06:49:39","slug":"10-things-to-do-in-the-adirondacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/travel\/10-things-to-do-in-the-adirondacks","title":{"rendered":"10 Things to do in the Adirondacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adirondack Park is more difficult to define than most state\u2014or even national\u2014parks. For starters, it\u2019s massive: The greenspace, codified in the state constitution, protects roughly six million acres of upstate New York, meaning it\u2019s larger than Yosemite, Yellowstone, Glacier, Grand Canyon and Great Smoky Mountains national parks. Combined. It doesn\u2019t look much like a park either. Instead of entrance gates or a tour road, you simply pass a big brown sign on the highway, and its vast tracts of wilderness are dotted with towns, homes and businesses. But the opportunities for adventure are as varied as the terrain. Rocky summits, interconnected ponds and rivers, oceanlike lakes, beaten-down alpine tundra\u2014it\u2019s all there, and it\u2019s all just a four-hour drive due north of New York City.<\/p>\n

In fact, it\u2019s something of a miracle that an area this large in the middle of the Northeast, the most densely populated and arguably one of the most-exploited landscapes in the nation, is protected at all. But thanks to an 1894 amendment to the state constitution designating the Adirondacks as \u201cforever wild,\u201d their hiking routes, campgrounds, climbing crags, mountain peaks and paddle trails have been a public playground for more than 125 years. So whether you call the region home, like me, or are just swinging through, there\u2019s no shortage of ways to enjoy one of America\u2019s original public lands.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adirondack Park is more difficult to define than most state\u2014or even national\u2014parks. For starters, it\u2019s massive: The greenspace, codified in the state constitution, protects roughly six million acres of upstate New York, meaning it\u2019s larger than Yosemite, Yellowstone, Glacier, Grand Canyon and Great Smoky Mountains national parks. Combined. It doesn\u2019t look much like a park […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":100466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"page-map-template.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[388],"tags":[707,155,1528,12],"internal-tag":[],"class_list":["post-100405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-hiking","tag-new-york","tag-northeast","tag-travel"],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/rei.com\/blog\/travel\/10-things-to-do-in-the-adirondacks","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"10 Things to do in the Adirondacks","url":"http:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/travel\/10-things-to-do-in-the-adirondacks","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/travel\/10-things-to-do-in-the-adirondacks"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/12\/Adirondacks_Hero.jpg?resize=150%2C150","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/12\/Adirondacks_Hero.jpg?fit=2000%2C1000"},"articleSection":"Travel","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Michelle Flandreau"}],"creator":["Michelle Flandreau"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Uncommon Path \u2013 An REI Co-op Publication","logo":""},"keywords":["hiking","new york","northeast","travel"],"dateCreated":"2019-12-17T23:29:09Z","datePublished":"2019-12-17T23:29:09Z","dateModified":"2023-09-08T06:49:39Z"},"rendered":"