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Champlain Valley Land Use

Champlain Valley Land Use

Outside of Plattsburgh in the flat lands of the Champlain Valley, corn and soy feed the big dairies. While the city continues to sprawl outwards, there is still a lot of farming going on around it. Further out as you get into the hills and uplands of the Northern Adirondacks forest lands prevail. 

Poke O Moonshine Fire Tower

 Poke O Moonshine Fire Tower

Poke-O-Moonshine Fire Tower is located 2,161 feet above sea level and offers sweeping views of Northern Adirondacks and Lake Champlain Valley includes points as far north as Chazy, and south to the High Peaks of the Adirondacks.

There are two ways up Poke-o-Moonshine. The most common way nowadays is the 2.5 mile old woods road, that provide a quiet, modestly steep way up the mountain. The other way from the former Poke-O-Moonshine Campground is a 1.2 mile steep and eroded footpath.

https://andyarthur.org/pok-o-moonshine
http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/7825.html

Malone Area

 Malone Area

When you out of the northern fringe of the Adirondacks, leaving past Debar Flow and Titus Mountain, the Adirondacks rapidly drop into the relatively flat St. Lawrence Plain.

Coney Mountain Trail

Coney Mountain Trail

A 3D rendering of the Coney Mountain Trail in the Northern Adirondacks, south of Tupper Lake.

Dannemora Mountain Haul Road Trails

 Dannemora Mountain Haul Road Trails

Just north of Dannemora, as you climb Dannemora Mountain on NY 374, there is a pull off with a water fountain that is popular for tourists and locals seeking a source of good spring water. From there are several old haul road trails that you can hike along on Dannemora Mountain, a previously logged area that once supplied the wood used in the wood furnaces that heated Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora. At one time, the state brought prisoners up here to log the area, and provide heat for their facility. The mixed cover is good for wildlife viewing and hunting in this remote, little visited portion of the Northern Adirondacks.