Adirondack Park
Subnational Park · Paul Smiths, New York
Six million acres of northern New York — larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Glacier and Great Smoky Mountains combined — created in 1892 and protected by a clause in the state constitution requiring the public portion to be kept FOREVER WILD. It is unlike a national park in one decisive way: roughly half of it is privately owned, and a hundred and three towns and villages with over a hundred thousand residents live inside the park boundary.
8023 State Route 30, Paul Smiths, New York, 12970, United States
The park has NO ENTRANCE, NO GATE, NO FEE and no hours — it is a six-million-acre region containing 103 towns and villages. Individual facilities have their own seasons: the Paul Smiths Visitor Interpretive Center and the state campgrounds are largely seasonal, the Whiteface toll road runs roughly late spring to October, and many backcountry roads are unplowed in winter. ⚠ NOT VERIFIED FOR THIS FILE.