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What's so great about our resources in the Adirondacks? Well now, it truly is an angler's paradise. From the world-class smallmouth bass fishing in upper Lake Champlain and Champlain valley tributaries, to the expansive Adirondack Park's ponds, lakes, rivers and streams, there are vibrant resources for all to enjoy, and cherish. Opportunities abound for drifting a dry fly for native brook trout, casting into secluded, back bays for the mighty northern pike, or burping a top water plug on a pristine river for the fierce strike of the heralded smallmouth bass.
The Adirondack Park is great in size, to say the least. At 6 million acres it is larger than Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Glacier and Great Smokey Mountains national parks combined. It contains vast, intact landscapes where nature has enough uninterrupted space to run her course.
She is the largest remaining temperate-deciduous forest in the world and the Park contains the largest patches of old-growth forest east of the Mississippi River. Boasting 3000 lakes and ponds with a circulatory system of over 30,000 miles of brooks, streams and rivers, the angling difficulty lies within which body of water to choose to tempt the finned tenants!
There are 247 rare species in the Adirondack Park amongst the 102 occurrences of exemplary natural communities. Within the spruce-fir and beech-birch-maple forests are fisher, pine marten, spruce grouse, black bear, coyotes, bobcat, and whitetail deer. Loons nest on many Adirondack lakes. Bald Eagles, peregrine falcons, ospreys, ravens, beaver and moose thrive within these vast, connected, wildlife corridors.
The Adirondack Park is a great model for the world of how people and wild lands can coexist. Ours is a mosaic of more than 2.5 million acres of public, state forest preserve land intermingled with 3.5 million acres of private lands and small communities.
The Adirondacks offer some of the finest opportunities in the eastern United States for outdoor recreation in a superb natural setting, including boating of all kinds, camping, picnicking, hiking, fishing, hunting, swimming, mountaineering, cycling, downhill and cross-country skiing, ice skating and snow-shoeing.
Beyond the Banks Guide Service can create an itinerary within this stunning ecoregion that is certain to please, and promises the guest a rewarding and memorable experience. Whether it is stalking the expansive flats of upper Lake Champlain for smallmouth bass, quietly motoring up the Saranac Lake chain in search of ornery northern pike & delicious panfish, or hiking into a remote pond for native brook trout, Beyond the Banks would be pleased to escort you to our magnificent resources.

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