Adirondack Life

SARATOGA SPRINGS

Though Saratoga Springs is not in the Adirondack Park, that fact is merely technical for people from downstate heading north on Interstate 87. After the three-hour push out of metropolitan New York and up the Hudson Valley, the exit signs for Saratoga are the starting gates that signal the homestretch. And it works the other way as well.

From the beginning, Saratoga—that’s Mohawk for “Place of the Rapid Water”—has enjoyed a

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