Adirondack Mountains

"The "Adirondack Northway" is the designation given to the current I-87 stretch from Albany to the Canadian border, running through Albany, Saratoga, Warren, Essex and Clinton counties in upstate New York. Commonly referred to as simply "the Northway," this interstate highway stretch was constructed through a series of extensions beginning in 1957 and lasting a decade until its final connection in 1967. The road to completion, however, was not a smooth one, and plans for the northernmost sections of the Adirondack Northway were met with much opposition."

"The 175 mile-long Northway between Albany and Montreal, which Governor Nelson Rockefeller officially declared completed ten years later, brought that world much closer."

"For practical as well as political reasons, the last stretch to be completed was the piece that crossed the Forest Preserve between Ausable Chasm and Lake George, an accomplishment possible only after the passage of a constitutional referendum allowing the condemnation of 254 acres."

"As a newspaper editor, my father supported the constitutional amendment, arguing “We need trunk line highways connecting our communities with the great population areas to the north and south.”

"Roger Tubby, the publisher of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, led a committee organized to secure passage of the proposition."