The 3,000-acre Paul Smith’s College Visitors Interpretive Center (VIC), in Paul Smiths (in the Adirondacks about 12 miles from Saranac Lake), has 25 miles of trails for three-season walking, strolling, and nature watching (through November).
There are also six miles of interpretive trails that showcase the natural beauty of the Adirondack Mountains and provide unparalleled opportunities to view, hear, photograph, and enjoy nature.
The trails wind through woodlands and by marshlands, ponds, brooks, and bogs. Many of the trails are surfaced for easy walking and traverse almost every kind of habitat found in the Adirondack Park.
Paul Smith’s VIC is one of the few places in the state to observe boreal songbirds, including the boreal chickadee, black-backed woodpecker, and the gray jay. You may also see beavers, red foxes, white-tailed deer, or an occasional moose.
The trail system provides opportunities for birdwatching and backcountry hiking. It also opens for snowshoeing, skate-skiing, and cross-country skiing once there is adequate snow cover, around December 1.
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