In the Adirondacks: Dispatches from the Largest Park in the Lower 48

An immersive journey into the past, present, and future of a region many consider the Northeast’s wilderness backyard.

Out of all the rural areas of the United States, including those in the West, which are bigger and propped up by more pervasive myths about adventure and nation and wilderness and freedom, the Adirondacks has accumulated a well-known identity beyond its boundaries. Untouched, unspoiled, it is defined by what we haven’t done to it. Combining author Matt Dallos’s personal obs...