This official book published with the Adirondack Mountain Club celebrates America s original hiking destination through breathtaking contemporary photography, maps, rarely seen archival photos, and a text that brings the history of the trails to life.

Over two dozen essays from established writers as well as newcomers on the relationship between landscape and the ways of life in New York's "North Country" - the Adirondacks and surrounding valleys. Between these covers are open spaces, small towns, skeletons in the closets, blue skies, big storms and more, all in a region that has never been quite sure how to define itself.