Adirondack Visitor Interpretive Center
At Paul Smiths

The Adirondack Visitor Interpretive Center (VIC) in Paul Smiths, New York, offers scenic walking trails that showcase the natural beauty of the Adirondacks. The trails weave through woodland and marshland, by ponds, brooks, and bogs. Many of the trails are surfaced for easy walking. Many have trail-side signs explaining natural and manmade features of the landscape. There are also several backcounty hiking trails. This unofficial site was created to celebrate the natural beauty of the Adiondack Mountains.

The Adirondack Visitor Center is operated by New York State Adirondack Park Agency. The Visitor Center at Paul Smiths, along with another VIC at Newcomb, serves the 6 million-acre Adirondack Park as an environmental education and traveler orientation center. The Adirondack Park was created in 1892 by the State of New York. It is the largest publicly protected area in the contiguous United States. For more information, visit the official Visitor Interpretive Center web site at: www.northnet.org/adirondackvic/.

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