2010 Thunder Rides

All Adirondack Loops Described Assume Starting in Old Forge. Trip time increases with number of stretch stops. All times are round trip from Old Forge, NY.

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Brant Lake-Port Henry-Newcomb Loop 230 miles 5.5 hrs
Rt 28 N through Inlet, Raquette Lake, to Blue Mt Lake. Turn right at intersection in Blue, following signs for Indian Lake. Through Indian Lake to Wevertown. Turn left at traffic light Wevertown onto SR 8 to Brant Lake. (Consider Palisades Road around Brant Lake as a side trip.) On to Hague. At T turn left onto SR 9N by Lake Champlain. Through Ticonderoga, north to Port Henry. Turn left in town onto CR 4/Broad St. Bear left onto CR 42 to Moriah. Onto CR 4. Turn left onto SR 9 to North Hudson. Turn right onto CR 84/CR 2 (Blue Ridge Rd). (Consider Tahawas Road to view old blast furnace as a side trip.) At T turn right onto SR 28N west through Newcomb to Long Lake. At Hoss’s Store go straight, now on SR 30 to Blue Mt. Lake. At foot of Blue Mt hill go straight onto Rt 28 through Raquette Lake, Inlet, Eagle Bay to Old Forge.

Tahawus (also called Adirondac, Adirondak, or McIntyre) was a village in the Town of Newcomb, Essex County, New York. It is now a ghost town situated in Adirondack Park, with County Road 25 running past the north part of the town. Tahawus was the site of major mining and iron smelting operations in the 19th century. Although standing as recently as 2005, the last mining facilities have since been demolished and removed.