NEWS RELEASES
New Campground To Serve As Hub for Popular Adirondack Mountains
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through The Daily Gazette's website.
NORTH HUDSON, N.Y. - The Daily Gazette reports on the new “Gateway to the Adirondacks,” or the Frontier Town state campground that will open next year around May or June. The pair of day-use areas, including along the Schroon River, are now open however. The new state campground, at the southern edge of the Adirondack High Peaks off Northway exit 29, will include camping sites for horseback riders, RVers and traditional tent campers. Management plans to eventually gain access to miles of horesback trails and connect through other trails to the nearby Boreas Ponds tract and the High Peaks Wilderness.
In commemoration of the old Frontier Town theme park and the ribbon cutting ceremony, Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos said the new campground will serve as a hub for visitors to the increasingly popular Adirondack High Peaks areas. “This is our Yosemite, this is our Grand Canyon, this is our Yellowstone,” Seggos said in an article by Zachary Matson of the Daily Gazette. The ribbon-cutting comes as DEC crews, state police, forest rangers and environmental advocates ramp up for the last major busy weekend in the High Peaks of the year. The campground’s full opening next summer will come around the same time that Paradox Brewery opens its new tasting room and brew facility a few blocks up the road; a trail will lead directly from the campground to the brewery. Gov. Andrew Cuomo was the one to officially announce the project, which is expected to cost $32 million.
For more details on the opening of Frontier Town state campground in the Adirondacks, click here.