A Virtual Tour of Breathtaking Adirondack Land: The Adirondack High Peaks & Lake George Region
We cherish the Adirondack land that surrounds us...beautiful vistas, serene landscapes, and glacial waterways. At Thunder Mountain Land Sales, it is our privilege to offer some of the most desirable land for sale in Upstate NY. We are pleased to share some images of the Adirondack mountains, waterways, and Upstate NY lakes that make this region so unique:
First off, I'd like to thank Carl Heilman for allowing
me to use his photographic images on this page. Please visit his web site by clicking
any of his links.
The
Adirondack Park - the East's greatest wilderness, playground for millions,
home of 130,000 New Yorkers, is the most unusual park in the United States.
The Adirondack land is a varied place, untouched forests mirrored in thousands of ponds
and Upstate NY lakes; quiet wilderness trails; mountains with spectacular views; sparkling
streams and long quiet waterways; rich timber producing lands; small communities
nestled in deep mountain valleys; and many resorts close to natural wonders.
The Adirondack
Park is unique in its intricate mixture of public and private lands. The
Park is a patchwork of parcels, large and small; some, the Forest Preserve,
belong to all the people of the State, others to industries and individuals.
About 130,000 people live year round in its 105 towns and villages. Many
of them provide the facilities and services for several million visitors
each year. The Adirondack Park lies within a day's drive of 60 million
people. It is also home to those who work in forestry, agriculture, and
mining which make up the balance of the regional economy, There are homes, camps, waterfront, and all types of land for sale in Upstate NY that will meet every need.
The heart
of this great Park is its treasured public lands, the Adirondack
Forest Preserve, which was created by an act of the Legislature in
1885. "The lands now or hereafter constituting the Forest Preserve shall
be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be sold, nor shall
they be leased or taken by any person or corporation, public or private."
In 1884 a "Blue
Line" was used to delineate a proposed park boundary. That Blue Line
has been used to delineate the Park since 1892 when the Adirondack Park
was created to encompass that portion of the Adirondacks which included
the Forest Preserve and the intermixed private lands. During the last 100
years, numerous Adirondack land purchases have increased the Forest Preserve from the original
681,374 acres to its present 2.6 million acres. The Blue Line, originally
encompassing 2.8 million acres, now encircles nearly six million acres, including countless Upstate NY lakes, ponds, rivers and streams.
This
harmonious blend of private and public lands gives the Adirondacks a diversity
found nowhere else - a diversity of open space and recreational lands,
of summer homes and year round communities, of wildlife and flora, of mountains
and meadows. The Park also has a diversity of people: factory workers,
trappers and guides, loggers, retired couples, owners of large tracts,
and vacationers.
SIZE:
Almost 6 million acres (9,375 square miles), and 2.5 times the area of
Yellowstone National Park, (roughly the same size as the state of New Hampshire).
OWNERSHIP:
2.6 million acres (43%) are State owned, constitutionally-protected, "forever
wild" Adirondack Forest Preserve belonging to all the people of New York
State. 3.4 million acres (57%) are private lands devoted principally to
forestry, agriculture and open-space recreation.
POPULATION:
130,000 permanent and 200,000 seasonal residents. Several million tourists
pass through the Park annually.
GEOGRAPHY:
The western and southern Adirondacks are a gentle landscape of hills, lakes,
ponds and streams. In the northeast are the 46
high peaks, 42 of which are over 4,000 feet (including nine alpine
summits) spread over 1,200 square miles. Highest is Mount
Marcy at 5,344 feet. These mountains are survivors of an ancient geologic
formation; the erosion-resistant bedrock, accounting for the height of
the mountains, is an estimated 1.2 billion years old.
FLORA
AND FAUNA: The spruce/fir and beech/birch/maple associations reach their
crowning glory in Adirondack forests. Seventy tree species are native to
the Park. Wild flowers abound, and hundreds of species of shrubs,
herbs and grasses may be encountered in a single day's outing. The fisher,
American marten, golden eagle, and spruce grouse are among the unusual
wilderness wildlife. Big game animals are white-tailed deer and black bear.
Occasionally moose are seen. Animal life includes 55 species of mammals,
218 species of birds (193 nesting), 35 species of reptiles and amphibians,
and 86 species of fish. Most sought by fishermen are the brook and lake
trout found in Adirondack waters.
WATERSHED:
The Adirondacks form the headwaters for most or part of five major basins: Lake
Champlain, and the Hudson, Black, St. lawrence, and Mohawk rivers.
Within the Park are 2,800 lakes and ponds and more than 1,200 miles of
rivers fed by an estimated 30,000 miles of brooks and streams.
RECREATION:
The range of sports and outdoor recreation opportunities is unparalleled
in the eastern United States. The Adirondack Park offers boating of all
kinds, bicycling, camping, picnicking, hiking, mountaineering, hunting, fishing, golf, swimming, whitewater rafting, water skiing, scuba diving,
downhill and cross-country skiing, ice skating, ice boating, snowmobiling and snowshoeing. The
U.S. Olympic Committee has designated the Lake Placid -Wilmington area
as a major winter sports training center.
There
are 2,000 miles of trails throughout the Park, more than half of them State-maintained.
A north-south wilderness trail runs 130 miles from Lake
Placid to Northville. In addition, hundreds of miles of cross-country
ski and snowmobile trails are scattered throughout the Park, a good portion
on private lands. Adirondack land for sale in Upstate NY provides an opportunity to enjoy some of the finest outdoor recreation anywhere.
A popular
canoe route begins at Old
Forge in the southwest and follows a string of Lakes, ponds, rivers
and portages nearly 100 miles to Tupper
Lake and the Saranac Lakes in the north-central region. The
St. Regis Canoe Area, with 57 interconnecting lakes and ponds near Saranac
Lake, offers a unique wilderness experience.
We hope you will contact Thunder Mountain Land Sales to find the Adirondack land for sale you have been looking for.
Lou Hall
Sr
The Wind Who
has seen the wind?
Neither
you nor I:
But
when the trees bow down their heads,
The
wind is passing by. Christina
Rossetti (1830–94), English poet, lyricist.
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