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Alan Via’s new book Doghiker: Great Hikes With Dogs from the Adirondacks Through the Catskills (Excelsior Editions, 2020) is a comprehensive guidebook for dog owners that includes plenty of great hikes from the Adirondacks through the Catskills.
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Doghiker: Great Hikes With Dogs
DEC Campground Ambassador Program Expanding
The 2020 application period for the Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) Campground Ambassador program has begun.
“In 2019, its second year, DEC’s Campground Ambassador Program more than doubled its applicants and grew to offer more than 300 fun, educational, and meaningful programs at nine participating facilities,” DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos said in an announcement sent to the press.
ORDA Adds Gondola to Belleayre Ski Resort
Belleayre Mountain’s Ski Resort has announced the opening of the new Catskill Thunder high-speed gondola.
The 60-cabin gondolas are carried from the lower mountain’s Discovery Lodge to the summit in seven minutes. The new Catskill Thunder Gondola is able to transport up to eight guests per cabin, approximately 2,000 people per hour, at a maximum speed of 1,000 feet per minute, according to an announcement made by the Olympic Region Development Authority (ORDA), which manages Belleayre in addition to the Gore and Whiteface mountain ski reorts in the Adirondacks. » Continue Reading.
Local Students Leads Catskill Climate Summit
Students and staff from The Wild Center’s Youth Climate Program traveled to the Frost Valley YMCA in Claryville, NY this spring to educate 60 students from the Catskills and New York City area schools about how to lead on climate change issues during a two-day Youth Climate Leadership Summit. » Continue Reading.
Latest Adirondack News
- Border towns suffer from lack of access
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- Multiple fires lead officials to caution campers
- Adirondack summer camps close or adapt for pandemic summer
- Lake George parasail permits get safety updates after near-drowning
- Tourism swells for long weekend
- Couple tells tourists, ‘Go home’
- Trudeau studies COVID-19 while helping AMC
- Plattsburgh nursing home has 2nd COVID case
Latest Adirondack News
- Border towns suffer from lack of access
- Amid real estate turbulence, brokers see upswing
- Warren Co. advocates for taller cell towers
- Multiple fires lead officials to caution campers
- Adirondack summer camps close or adapt for pandemic summer
- Lake George parasail permits get safety updates after near-drowning
- Tourism swells for long weekend
- Couple tells tourists, ‘Go home’
- Trudeau studies COVID-19 while helping AMC
- Plattsburgh nursing home has 2nd COVID case
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