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Backpacker Magazine – November 2010
Best Hikes Ever: Jenkins Mountain Trail, NY
Skirt lakes to soaring ’Daks views.
Mile one of the Jenkins Mountain Trail (Pat & Chuck Blackley)
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- New York |
- Jenkins Mountain Trail |
- Adirondack State Park |
- Adirondacks |
- Destinations |
Duck the crowded High Peaks region, a hot spot we can’t help but cover a few times each year, and head north to a remote corner of 2.5-million-acre Adirondack State Park. Jenkins Mountain Trail leaves the Paul Smiths Visitor Interpretive Center for an 8.2-mile out-and-back. Keep an eye out for beaver dams and some of the 300 species of birds, like the gray jay and the broad-winged hawk. Reach the 2,477-foot summit of Jenkins Mountain after 4.1 miles. It’s also a sweet winter snowshoe route (deep snow and silent woods).
Map Trails Illustrated Adirondacks: Saranac/St. Paul
Contact (518) 327-3000; apa.state.ny.us/vic
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READERS COMMENTS
About 2.7 million acres are owned by the state.
Just to note...it is state forests, state parks, and private land in a patchwork within what's called the "Blue Line" boundary. It is NOT a National Park. It is 6 million acres of wonderful :-)
Dave Pidgeon: The Adirondacks are a NATIONAL PARK, not a state park. And it is 6 million acres, not 2.5 million acres, just a heads up.
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