Blue Mountain Lake, NY Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

While Lake George and the eastern fringes of the Adirondacks in general hold little to compete with the interior, an hour's drive northwest along Hwy-28 takes you past the headwaters of the Hudson River to the tiny resort of BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE . A handful of motels and lakeside cabins provide accommodation, and you can swim at the pretty little beach that fronts the village center. Sagamore Great Camp , about fifteen miles west, in the woods above Raquette Lake, is the only one of the many "Great Camps" that wealthy Easterners constructed in the Adirondacks around the end of the nineteenth century … more »