Children's camps in the Adirondacks.

From: Camping Magazine | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Bond, Hallie E. | Copyright information

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the mountainous Adirondack region of northern New York was one of the nation's premier resorts. The grand resort hotels, smaller inns, and boarding houses were concentrated on the region's many lakes, nowhere more so than on the two large lakes on the region's eastern edge. It is therefore hot surprising that Lakes George and Champlain became the sites of some of the earliest experiments in the country in organized camping for children. ...

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