Schroon Lake, Indian Lake, Lake Pleasant off old Route 9. My family had a camp on the Sacandaga and we went on hunting and fishing trips up your way in the 60s. Been around and lived in a fair portion of the world since then and nothing has the distinctive feels, smells and diversity of the Adirondacks.

I grew up way out in the sticks, we had an outhouse, outdoor shower and lived in a small one room shingle house. We got one TV station on the old black and white TV. The phone was a party line. Wood cook stove, we did have fridge and an old wringer washer that grandma got her blouse caught a time or two. We lived 20 miles from the nearest town of a population of less than 1000. This was Oregon in 1980! Lol I have lived rural my entire life and wouldn’t change a thing. I was raised by my grandparents.

I grew up in Far Rockaway (Queens) and Inwood (Five Towns area of Nassau County). My dad bought a small camp on the north end of Loon Lake on Route 9 in the 1950s and we vacationed there every summer and sometimes for the entire summer. It was right next to The Cove owned by Cliff and Shirley. I remember sitting in the Washing Well in Pottersville in the 1960s where mom did laundry and I also watched as the Northway was being built over Fish Creek. My first part time job was at the Wells House. A friend and I both worked there and two jobs I distinctly remember was clearing out the basement and under the porch. There was a LOT of stuff under the porch! We also carried out all the old iron radiators down the stairs and over to the gas station for salvage. Don't remember if it was Roger Pete's back then. Also did some part time work for Three Way Trucking (next to The Glendale) when they had a highway wreck that needed some cleanup. Like unloading 800 bags of wet peat out of a tractor trailer crash. Got that job by knowing the kids, Kal and Eddie Rosner. I also remember George Martin. Tough fire plug of a man! Saw quite a few movies at the Glendale drive in. In my later years I remember many a night downing brews and shooting pool in Butch Stetson's Black Bear. Starting around 2016 my job transitioned to 100% work from home, so I asked if it mattered where home was, within reason. At the time the client was in Rochester, NY and my company and the client gave me the go to relocate to the house my parents had bought just outside of Chestertown.

Wow inspiring sir . I hope you get back out there I think the trip itself would be worth it . Good luck

Sounds like a blessing

So glad you enjoyed the film.

The loon is the greatest sound in nature

Felt that way in Alaska. I live around Loons

So true 👍

I do a lot of early morning bass fishing (on the water before sunrise) on Loon Lake. Being on a mirror-still lake with a mist so thick you can't see more than 50 feet and hearing the loons calling is awesome. The last five or so years I've also been seeing a lot of eagles. Watching a full grown eagle flying above and then settling high up in a pine is pretty cool too. Amazingly big birds with the black and white feathers and big hooked yellow beak. Incredible! Another experience is while solo backpacking in the Siamese Ponds Wilderness and being awakened at 2 or 3 AM by the howling of coyotes. It's so eerily beautiful. What actually startled the heck out of me one morning and at a similar time was a loud BAM! Sounded like a gunshot going off. I waited in my sleeping bag for a minute or two, seeing if I could hear anything else, and when I didn't got out of my bag, unzipped the tent and stepped outside. I was on a beaver pond where the trout fishing was excellent so there I am, in my skivvies standing on the shore of this beaver pond at 2 or 3 AM. Suddenly I saw ripples in the water. It was a beaver and all of a sudden it went under and in doing so slapped its big tail on the water's surface with an explosive BAM! LOL!

Thank you for sharing.

This Brit has been to Saranac Lake, and Lake Placid …… OMG It’s Gorgeous, would love to live there.

@@BuffaloTorontoPublicMedia👍 you are welcome

Which lake if you don’t mind me asking?

@@ryanblanchard2508 indian lake

@@marybradt805 It is a beautiful lake! A couple times a year I drive through Indian Lake on my way to Moose River Plains for some brookie fishing. Sometimes I also haul my 10" dob scope back there and set up just before where it transitions to a seasonal road. Got to be one of the darkest places East of the Mississippi! Once my eyes adjust and on a moonless night I can see faint shadows cast by starlight. At least half a dozen DSOs are visible to the naked eye and Andromeda is spectacular, as is the Milky Way. It never, ever gets old.

We absolutely agree!

Love keesville. Gem of a town

A lucky person.

Born and raised in Tupper Lake! Miss it a lot!!!

@@stevenbrooks4940 Tupper lake people suck

Much appreciated. Thank you for sharing.

We hope that all goes well!

Our property in Tupper Lake, on the water, will be for sale soon. I'll post again when it's on the market.

And murder

NY beaches suck, it cannot compare with California in every category including wine country, agriculture, etc.

@@RogueReplicant Clearly you haven't been to the Hamptons or Fire Island. You probably don't even live in California. You're probably some fool in flyover country.

Head west... city, beaches, wilderness. You'll be surprised.

@dezafinado There is no city like NYC in the U.S. Not even close. I've lived in London, Paris, Tokyo, Zurich, Jburg, and Madrid. NYC reigns supreme. The west coast has beautiful beaches and surroundings, but no city worth living in.

My dad and his brother inlaw along with a few other guys used to have those old vw's and would modify them into dune buggies but for mountain trails when we'd spend summer weekends at a place in the mountains my grandparents bought. Your story made me remember them😊😊😊 thanks!

The snow belt there offers the best snowmobile trails and ski lodge. Worth the trip!

How are the winters there? Are they good about plowing the roads?

I moved into my house in May, but I found it late February and came up in March for various inspections and never had any issues with plowed roads. I’ve not experienced a full winter yet, but I’ve lived upstate before (outside of Utica) and snow removal up here has always been very good, so I’d imagine the same here in the park. We shall see! I work from home so that’s less of a concern for me, but kids still need to get to school and those buses aren’t 4WD so the roads over and around the mountains (of which there are many steep windy roads) must be pretty darn good IMO

@@VoodooLounge612Where are you? I'm just outside Chestertown (Loon, Brant, Friends and Schroon Lakes area). I work from home too as of 2016 and moved here in 2018 into what was once the parents house. The family had a camp on Loon Lake since the 50s, but when dad retired he sold that along with his house on Long Island and bought the house outside Chestertown. It seems to me the winters brought more snow in the 60s and 70s, however the east side of the 'Dacks usually doesn't get as much snow as the west side. This past winter was easy until March and then we got a few storms of wet and heavy snow, two dumping a foot or so and the last over 2 feet. I lived outside Syracuse, NY in B'ville from 2008-2012. Now that's a place that gets hammered with snow. Winter of 2010-2011 we got hit with 190" and it was just short of the record. Go north of Syracuse to Tug Hill Plateau and the *average* snowfall there is about 240". Anyway they are pretty good with snow removal here in Warren County and Town of Chester, and I do have a Silverado 4WD so it really doesn't hinder me.

@@MNP208Some towns are better about plowing the roads than others but they’re passable. (On a dog sled)

@@justasimpleguy7211 Sorry for the very delayed response here!!! Things have been a little hectic these past few months, between work and adding a new puppy to my household. Thanks for replying to my post. I'm in Lake Luzerne, overlooking the Hudson, just across from Corinth. I lived on LI for a brief time. Do NOT miss that at all!!! Lived in Oyster Bay, Bay Shore, and mostly Copiague. Don't believe I've been over Chestertown way yet exploring. I seem to recall passing thru on my way to one of my other stops, but haven't actually spent much time around that area. All of those challenges are on my list though!!! I work from home as well, for a company out of PA and have to head in 1x/Quarter. Not a bad gig really. Sounds like you have a nice place of your own as well!!!

Same here Marc, still going every other year in the fall. Cranberry Lake brings back fond memories of family camping.

Maybe a little bit, but the mountains in Switzerland that you mentioned are so fractured and the forest have been decimated there.. the Adirondacks are intact and that is what makes it so special

@@rmf9567 how do you mean, "fractured"? Have you ever been there (the Jura Mountains)?

Foot Hills, my Mom did too! 1 of 13 and I lived up by the Wind Mills for about 10 years of my adult life also lol

Just purchased our first lake camp this year on Brantingham Lake. Beautiful region!

No. The meth heads are every where. They don't care about anyone. They're robbing us blind. And with NYS bail reform they never see jail.

Tupper Lake people suck

It's my hometown & it was wonderful growing up here while living on the lake - swimming, waterskiing, boating, fishing, snow skiing, ice skating on the lake out front of our home, snowmobiling, mountain climbing & then being able to come back here in retirement to live in our family home.

Interesting! Thanks for sharing.

Live Glens falls NY always loved go there Adirondacks are best in the world period,no more developing!!even privately owed land in Adirondacks

Well Art,. Don't keep the info to yourself or we might not survive the idiots trying to destroy our way of life in the Adirondacks

Yeah Art, what's your plan?

Glad you enjoyed it!

I'm from Chicago and there is NOTHING in the midwest that comes close to the ADK. Absolutely NOTHING!!! The midwest is flat, boring, and bland.

The winter Olympics were hosted twice in the ADK. There is no comparison. I live in NYC now and can tell you, Lake Geneva, Michigan, Indiana Dunes, Wisconsin Dells are nothing compared to the ADK or the Catskills.

@@DTMyles I agree. Have you been north of Duluth, MN in the summer? I love the cliffs overlooking Lake Superior! The Dells are very touristy. Door County and The Apostle Islands are beautiful areas of WI.

You're from Pakistan

Thanks for sharing!

Many thanks

We agree! It sure is a beautiful sight to see!

Allegheny Mountain s also

Yep

Ticks, fleas, black flies, mosquitos, deer flies. It's imposdible to be outside from April thru September. So yeah, if you want to permanently damage your skin and be scarred for life come to ADK for a weekend and be eaten alive by bugs. Lots of Lyme disease now too which didn't exist when we were kids making our fond memories.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Ampersand mountain is an amazing hike, amazing trail

Tupper Lake where the men are men and woman are too 😂

@@drakedulka3547 it's remote... but it's a beautiful town. I wouldn't want to grow up there as a youth because of the remoteness, but it's a great place for adults and vacationing

@@JackG79 It's my hometown & it was wonderful growing up here while living on the lake - swimming, waterskiing, boating, fishing, snow skiing, ice skating on the lake out front of our home, snowmobiling, mountain climbing & then being able to come back here in retirement to live in our family home! Growing up here was all about being outside & living a healthy lifestyle! You don't know what you've missed!

@@annking1576 sounds beautiful. Thank you.

They won"t...I grew upin Lake Placid,and they have Destroyed it..Tourist Trap.