We drove up in the Adirondack (which means porcupine in the Mohawk language) Mountains to Lake Placid, such magnificent beauty and scenic grandeur...
The Adirondacks are a group of mountains in north-eastern New York, the Adirondacks were created as a park in 1892 by the State of New York, this splendid park is now a constitutionally protected Forever Wild forest preserve and spans six million acres with over 3000 lakes, miles and miles of rivers and it includes over 2000 miles of hiking trails, these trails comprise the largest trail system in the nation. Many areas of the park are devoid of any types of settlements and there are no useable roads, it is a natural wilderness, unlike any other. The Mohawk and the Algonquin Indians used these Mountains for hunting and fishing..but they never settled here, it was probably too cold...
The Adirondacks are a group of mountains in north-eastern New York, the Adirondacks were created as a park in 1892 by the State of New York, this splendid park is now a constitutionally protected Forever Wild forest preserve and spans six million acres with over 3000 lakes, miles and miles of rivers and it includes over 2000 miles of hiking trails, these trails comprise the largest trail system in the nation. Many areas of the park are devoid of any types of settlements and there are no useable roads, it is a natural wilderness, unlike any other. The Mohawk and the Algonquin Indians used these Mountains for hunting and fishing..but they never settled here, it was probably too cold...
The Adirondacks covers one fifth of New York, it is the largest publicly protected park in the contiguous United States. Larger than several states in New England, bigger even than Yosemite, Yellowstone, Glacier, Grand Canyon and the Great Smokies National Parks combined. There are about one hundred peaks, ranging from 1200 to 5000 ft. the highest peak, is Mt. Marcy (it was called Tahawus or "cloud-splitter" by the Indians).
Esprit climbed us upwards to over 2000 ft, she was a champ about it, gave us no worries! Now my ears...on the other hand didn't think to highly about it! We stayed in a Park called the North Pole...so now I can say I have been to the North Pole! We drove around and saw some of the most wonderful forests, rivers and mountain peaks...towering above us.....the air was so crisp and clean, the rivers flowed over large boulders and so fresh!....it was great!
Esprit climbed us upwards to over 2000 ft, she was a champ about it, gave us no worries! Now my ears...on the other hand didn't think to highly about it! We stayed in a Park called the North Pole...so now I can say I have been to the North Pole! We drove around and saw some of the most wonderful forests, rivers and mountain peaks...towering above us.....the air was so crisp and clean, the rivers flowed over large boulders and so fresh!....it was great!
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