Protect the Adirondacks
Protect the Adirondacks! Inc. is a non-profit, grassroots membership organization dedicated to the protection and stewardship of the public and private lands of the Adirondack Park, and to building the health and diversity of its natural and human communities for the benefit of current and future generations.
Click here for suggested Accessible Adirondack Paddling Opportunities.
Help save the 36,000-acre Whitney Park in the central Adirondacks. Send an email to Governor Hochul today.
Click here for more information and see how you can submit a public comment today.
Join Us for our Annual Meeting July 11, 2026. Click here to register!
The link for more information and to register is available here.
Sign Up as a Member
Become a member of Protect the Adirondacks and add your voice to the defense of the public Forest Preserve, protection of the great forests and waters of the Adirondacks, and help campaign for strengthening protections and improving the management of the six-million-acre Adirondack Park.
The link below will bring you to our secure page to sign up today as a new member.
Become an e-Activist
When you are an E-Activist, we will provide you with information on opportunities to take immediate action online, and also become involved, on an ongoing basis.
The link below will bring you to a quick and easy online form.
Conservation and Advocacy
New hiking trails in the High Peaks Wilderness showcase sustainable designs and a wilderness ethos
These new hiking trail designs have vastly improved the state [...]
Public access to Boreas Ponds is open
The Boreas Ponds are open to the public and a canoe [...]
Article 14 and the word “timber”
Protect the Adirondacks recently won a major victory in its [...]
Joe Mahay, an Adirondack Park activist, 1946-2019
Longtime grassroots Adirondack Park environmental activist Joe Mahay died in [...]
Protect the Adirondacks plans to cross-appeal Appellate Division, Third Department, decision on Article 14 lawsuit
Protect the Adirondacks will defend the Appellate Division ruling that [...]
Questions surround new Frontier Town Campground trail system
The new Frontier Town state campground was opened to great [...]