A bicyclist’s ADK dream
Imagine this.
You’re an Adirondack resident and a serious bicyclist. You take regular rides from your home base, and when you go on vacations, you often pile the bikes atop the car for some scenic touring at your destination. Or maybe you are a town supervisor, or a chamber- of-commerce president, somewhere in the Adirondack Park. Or you run an Adirondack inn, or a restaurant, or a bike or outdoor gear shop.
One night you go to sleep, and the next thing you know, you’re sitting up in bed, staring at a large map of the Adirondack Park. You don’t know whether you’re in a dream—or how the map arrived in your bedroom—but the map looks real and has bright red lines marking rail-trail routes across the park. You don’t know what year it is, but the map indicates that all the red lines are paved, state-of-the art trails for mixed-use bicycle and pedestrian traffic (and cross-country skiing and snowmobiling in the winter).
And they connect long stretches at the heart of the Adirondacks:
■ One trail begins in the High Peaks region at Lake Placid, connecting the villages of Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake (34 miles total) and
