The Adirondack Park was created in 1882 by the New York
State Legislature, which enacted measures that guarantee public lands will
remain forever wild. The Park itself is the size of the Vermont,
with a structure unlike ant other state or national park in the nation.
It is a patchwork of public and private lands. There are expansive
blocks of backcountry interspersed with private homes, villages and tracts
of corporate forestlands under active management. In the Adirondacks,
it is possible to hike to an isolated waterfall in the afternoon, then
spend the evening strolling Main Street.
Within the "Blue line" as the park boundary is
called, more than forty state-operated campgrounds, 2000 miles of hiking
trails, hundreds of miles of canoes routes and 42 peaks over 4000 feet
in height entice travelers from all over the world.