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Where We Work The Adirondack Nature Conservancy has protected over 385,000 acres since 1971. Click on the red dots to learn more about our preserves. Places We Protect Adirondack Park Champlain Valley       Coon Mountain Preserve   Gadway Sandstone Pavement Barrens   Southern Lake Champlain Valley Silver Lake Bog Preserve Spring Pond Bog Preserve Everton Falls PreserveClintonville Pine Barrens

There are few places—if any—like the Adirondacks. At 6-million-acres, they are larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and Olympic National Parks combined.

They harbor some of the best remaining examples of hardwood forests, bogs, lakes, rivers, alpine summits, and spruce-fir forests typical of the 31-million-acre northern forest that spans New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and parts of southern Québec.

With 2,800 lakes and ponds and 30,000 miles of rivers and streams, the Adirondacks' aquatic resources are also extraordinary.

Because the Adirondacks are a mosaic of more than 2.5 million acres of publicly owned Forest Preserve lands intermingled with 3.5 million acres of private lands and small communities, they also provide a great model for how people and wildlands can coexist.

Many of our preserves are publicly accessible and equipped with trails, guides, and visitor areas. 

To find out more about our natural areas and how you can visit, please check out the preserve pages to the right and read our preserve visitation guidelines.

 

 

 

Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo © Carl Heilman II (Adirondack stream); Photo © Carl Heilman II (leaves).