In The Adirondack Park McMartin has aptly likened the various wild forest, wilderness, recreation, and primitive areas to a patchwork quilt, with landscapes connecting to jagged boundaries following rivers and narrow valleys. Recommended "views and visits" give readers an insider's advantage to making the most of any Adirondack expedition. With a storyteller's ease, McMartin provides a brief history and description of each area. She chronicles the preserve's unusual origins, people, politics, and economics that created what is now one of the most important wilderness areas in the eastern United States.

The Adirondack Park: A Wildlands Quilt (New York State Series)

Business & Money

McMartin,Barbara

Economics

Syracuse University Press

Barbara McMartin narrates the history of Adirondack environmental policy in depth, beginning with the 1970 formation of the Adirondack Park Agency, set up to regulate private development and to oversee the planning of public terrain. Although hailed as the most innovative land-use legislation of its time, it ignited a wildfire of controversy, creating a landscape of conflict. Park residents protested. Government stood firm. Over the decades, disparate groups have sought to shape an effective program to protect Adirondack wildland but cannot seem to work together. This is the first comprehensive account of that ongoing drama: a stirring story of the environmental movement, public action, and government failure and success.

Perspectives on the Adirondacks: A Thirty-Year Struggle by People Protecting Their Treasure

Sports & Outdoors

The mixed-use establishment of the Adirondack State Park has led to numerous political battles over the regulation of development and other land use issues. The author traces the history of these battles from the 1970s to the present. She explores the evolution of the regulatory regimes of the Department of Environmental Conservation and the Adirondack Park Agency through the reactions of organizations and individuals on differing sides of the political battles over the Park. - Booknews

Gives the round trip distance in miles, hiking time, vertical rise, and a description of 50 marked trails.

Fifty Hikes in the Adirondacks: Short Walks, Day Trips, and Backpacks Throughout the Park

Backcountry

From the Author\nThis book is outdated and has been out of print for years. Please do not rely on it for wilderness use. Written at a time when there was little if any reliable information about longer hikes in the Catskills, this book was very popular and soon became a classic on the subject. It did very well over the years. It was a great book while it lasted. This title should not be sold any longer, as it is so badly dated, nor should it be reviewed as a contemporary volume, though it continues to be.

Fifty Hikes in the Hudson Valley: From the Catskills to the Taconics, and from the Ramapos to the Helderbergs

Travel

Kick, Peter

Long, James McMartin

United States

Backcountry Pubns

The classic work on Adirondack trails has been updated to include three new hikes; dozens of new topographical maps; new text and cover designs; and the author's fascinating sidebars on Adirondack history, lore, and natural history. At 6 million acres, the Adirondack Park is large enough to require a lifetime's exploration. Yet few of its visitors range beyond the spectacular--and ecologically sensitive--High Peaks area. This book lets hikers in on dozens of stunning trails leading to spots still uncrowded--without, of course, neglecting the old favorite hikes! Along the way, the author includes observations from her own lifetime's exploration of the Adirondacks. You'll find descriptions of plants and wildlife, incidents from the area's colorful past, explanations of some of its odder place-names (Pokamoonshine?), and more.

50 Hikes in the Adirondacks: Short Walks, Day Trips, and Backpacks Throughout the Park

Countryman Pr

This classic guide to hiking in the Adirondacks has been extensively revised and updated and now includes 5 new hikes. Barbara McMartin has been hiking in the Adirondacks for decades; her family, for generations. She has distilled her vast experience into the 50 hikes offered here, representing a cross-section of the wilderness and wild forest: rugged peak climbs, gentle trips to distant waterfalls, bushwhacks to wild rivers. In all she describes 360 miles of trails to caves, uninhabited lakes, wetlands, cliffs, and fire towers across the Park's 6 million acres. The hikes range in length from 1.5 to 13.5 miles. Each hike description includes a topographic map, mile-by-mile directions, and information on distance, difficulty, terrain, and hiking time. An overview chart makes it easy to pick a hike for every ability. Throughout, McMartin provides commentary on the natural history of the region, along with colorful incidents from Adirondack history. 50 black and white photographs, 51 maps

50 Hikes in the Adirondacks: Short Walks, Day Trips, and Backpacks Throughout the Park, Fourth Edition

Hiking & Camping

Countryman Press

Discover the Adirondacks, 2: Walks, Waterways, and Winter Treks in the Southern Adirondacks

Gives the round trip distance in miles, hiking time, vertical rise, and a description of 50 marked trails.

Fifty hikes in the Adirondacks: Short walks, day trips, and backpacks throughout the park

New Hampshire Pub. Co

Great Forest Of The Adirondacks

Great Forest of the Adirondacks

North Country Books

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The Adirondack Park: A Wildlands Quilt (New York State Series)

Perspectives on the Adirondacks: A Thirty-Year Struggle by People Protecting Their Treasure

Perspectives on the Adirondacks: A Thirty-Year Struggle by People Protecting Their Treasure

Fifty Hikes in the Adirondacks: Short Walks, Day Trips, and Backpacks Throughout the Park

Fifty Hikes in the Hudson Valley: From the Catskills to the Taconics, and from the Ramapos to the Helderbergs

50 Hikes in the Adirondacks: Short Walks, Day Trips, and Backpacks Throughout the Park

50 Hikes in the Adirondacks: Short Walks, Day Trips, and Backpacks Throughout the Park, Fourth Edition

Discover the Adirondacks, 2: Walks, Waterways, and Winter Treks in the Southern Adirondacks

Fifty hikes in the Adirondacks: Short walks, day trips, and backpacks throughout the park

Great Forest of the Adirondacks