Who would have ever thought that there is a North Pole in New York? And Santa has a house there…inside the Santa’s Workshop theme park. A theme park in the middle of the Adirondack Mountains! Who would have thought! Our son had already gotten a glimpse of Santa’s Workshop the previous day (when it was close), so the excitement level was not that high, and it was not high in the first place because at age seven, the fascination for Santa Claus had simmered down. Add the fact

On our second morning at the Adirondacks, we drove to High Falls Gorge in Wilmington, around 20 minutes from Lake Placid. High Falls Gorge is a privately-owned nature park with hiking trails that take you to four waterfalls cascading over rocks and ancient granite cliffs into the chasm that was carved by the river a billion years ago. This is like a smaller version of the Ausable Chasm. Okay, I have a confession to make. When we went to the Ausable Chasm the previous day, I

It was not hard to find the Pirate's Cove golf place. It is situated on a main road, and right by the entrance was a huge billboard with its pirate face logo flanked by pirate flags fluttering in the wind. Beside it was a life-sized statue of a fierce-looking pirate brandishing his sword. The place was not busy due to the bleak weather, so we found parking in no time and got our tickets without lining up. We got our golf clubs, golf balls, and score sheet and off we went to

Ausable Chasm is known as “The Grand Canyon of the Adirondacks.” It is a sandstone gorge that is about two miles long, carved by the Ausable River through the 500-million-year-old Cambrian Period Potsdam Sandstone around 10,000 years ago. The Ausable River runs through it and empties into Lake Champlain and is fed at the south end by the 91-foot-tall Rainbow Falls. Though not as grand as the Grand Canyon in Arizona, this chasm boasts of a continuous exposure of a section of

I love mountains and lakes. And if there are places with both, like those beautiful lakes in the Rockies or the Northern Cascades that I visited in the past, it’s even better. My husband always teases me that my love for mountains is sort of like a peripheral love. I love going to mountain resorts, driving along mountain roads, and staying in cities with a mountain backdrop, but I am not really into hiking and mountain climbing. Since he is a hiker, his definition of “love fo