Adirondack Museum

The roads through the Adirondacks are beautiful. The birch, fir and few maples, though cut down many times, provide dense cover along the road. Many caravan members even went to the headwaters of the Hudson River and some were even brave enough to wade across.

Every so often there is an Adirondack chair built on the side of the road that looks like it was built for Paul Bunyan or his kin. Some buildings have old ski gondolas as decorations.







Our destination was the Adirondack Museum, a complex of furnished 19th century vacation camps (cabins), a buckboard and carriage museum, boat museum, private rail cars and other exhibits. Some enjoyed watching a boatwright building a beautiful wooden guide boat. She had been working on the boat for two years and will not finish until next year. Others watched demonstrations of crafts included watching an oar carver. The complex hovers above Blue Lake affording a spectacular view.



Several members of the caravan had true backwood adventures getting back to the campground but that is their story to tell.