This weekend, Emily’s parents, Kira, Emily, and I visited Beaver River. For those of you unfamiliar with this area within the Adirondack Park, here’s a great summary from the Norridgewock III’s website:
Visit our wilderness lodge this winter. Come by canoe, come by boat taxi, float plane, Tour boat, hike or kayak but you can’t come by car unless it floats…
At the Norridgewock Hotel in Beaver River, we are known for our remote location, summer water and mountain sports, spectacular fall foliage and winter snowmobiling. We are a rustic lodge, run by the Thompson family for five generations…
No roads reach us. We are surrounded by the “Forever Wild” lands of the Adirondack State Park. People come by boat, barge (a new service) or snowmobile. Getting here is half the fun. The Resort has it’s own generators. See maps and transportation to see how to get here.
Apparently, the old Beaver River was dammed in the 1920’s. Renamed the Stillwater Reservoir, it has over 100 miles of wilderness shoreline. By damming Beaver River and creating the Reservoir, road access to the town of Beaver River was, and remains, disabled.
It was a great trip. We took in lunch at the lodge and explored the area before hopping back on the ferry for the trip home. Here are some pictures I took while we were there:
