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Outdoors

Wilmington Mountain Bike Festival set for Labor Day weekend

WILMINGTON — The Wilmington Mountain Bike Festival is returning for its seventh year — promising an exciting three-day celebration of biking, community and outdoor adventure — from Aug. 30 to Sept. 1 at the Wilmington Recreation Park. The festival is designed for mountain biking ...

Celebrate women’s suffrage with a hike up Mount Inez

WESTPORT — Champlain Area Trails, an accredited land trust, invites the public to celebrate the 104th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New York by hiking Mount Inez on Sunday, Aug. 18. Named after Inez Milholland, an iconic leader in the women’s suffrage movement, the hike is a way ...

Free watershed tours begin on Wednesday

WILMINGTON — The Ausable Freshwater Center is launching the sixth year of its guided watershed tours in the AuSable watershed and beyond. These tours are free to the public and include paddling, hiking and other interpretive programs. Gear is available for tour participants to use when ...

Village gives OSI access for rail trail trailhead work

LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid village board on Monday, Aug. 5 gave the Open Space Institute the green light to move forward with planned upgrades to the village’s Adirondack Rail Trail access point on Station Street. With the board’s vote, Mayor Art Devlin is now authorized to sign a ...

Temporary trail closure for Cobble Hill

LAKE PLACID — The Adirondack Land Trust announced Tuesday, Aug. 6 that the Cobble Hill trail off Mirror Lake Drive will be temporarily closed for trail work through the end of the work week, Friday, Aug. 9, and again from Monday, Aug. 12 to Thursday, Aug. 15. Professional trail builders ...

Village closes on rail trail land

LAKE PLACID — The village of Lake Placid has closed on a 1.77-acre plot of land on Station Street that will function as a new trailhead for the Adirondack Rail Trail. The $249,000 purchase and additional associated fees were funded by $300,000 from the 2023 state Environmental Protection ...