Adirondack Park's Remarkable History

Logging And Mining Almost Devastated The Adirondacks In The 1800's. (Photo: Adirondack Museum)

Reporter Terry A Belke, of WGRZ, does a great job giving a four-minute video history of how the Adirondack Park came to be in this report. It features an interview with Todd Happer, Director Of Marketing at The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake.

It’s a concise primer  -- and a reminder how thankful we all should be for the forward thinking citizens and government officials  -- who saved this mighty six million acre wilderness, which is larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Glacier and Great Smoky Mountain National Parks combined.