As Black History Month comes to a close, we share the start we’ve made toward telling the story of Warren County’s Underground Railroad by spotlighting points of interest on an ArcGIS StoryMap.

The Rev. Enos O. Putnam joined other ministers in leaving the parent Methodist Church over slavery. A fiery abolitionist who served as the Mill Creek Wesleyan Methodist Church’s first pastor, he is believed to have sheltered fugitive slaves in his home.

The Darrowsville Wesleyan Methodist Church was among the first congregations to be established in the "Great Schism" that divided Methodists over the issue of slavery in the 1840s. Its second pastor was the abolitionist Reverend Joseph Baker.

Three miles up the Raymond Brook Trail, you'll find the "Sled Shed," one of many innovations that were incorporated in the development of the National Ski Patrol. We call it a “Point of Interest.”

Greg Schaefer has a trove of films shot by North Creek’s ski pioneers in the 1930s. For the benefit of those who are visiting the area to attend the FISU Winter Games, he’s showing them again this Friday, January 20, at Ski Movie Night at 7 p.m. at North Creek’s Tannery Pond Center.

In both prose and poetry, Ed Zahniser writes about the natural world and the human experience, capturing the beauty and wonder of both in a way that is both profound and accessible.

On a chilly December 1, we circumnavigated the base of Eleventh Mountain, bushwhacking from the Bog Meadow Trail in the north to the Siamese Ponds Trail in the south.

After learning in his native Germany of a new way to make paper, Albrecht Pagenstecher built in 1870 what we may visit today as the Pulp Mill Museum in Lake Luzerne.

For more than 50 years, Paul Schaefer and friends convened each November at a hunting camp three miles into the Siamese Ponds wilderness.

At 1,751 feet, “Potash Kettle” is Lake Luzerne’s highest peak. Thanks to a remarkable community effort, its trail to the summit is now “one of the best in the Adirondacks.”

On a clear Saturday afternoon in early autumn, two of us set out on a modified loop bicycle trip that featured a variety of scenery on Friends Lake and the Hudson River.

If you’re seeking a ride to experience the beauty of the Adirondacks without a lot of hill climbing, this ride comes highly recommended.

It’s among the most scenic lakes in the Siamese Pond Wilderness. You can experience it easily by renting a kayak.

Early on the morning of June 24, 1942, Vincent Schaefer and a contingent of military leaders viewed the demonstration of a smoke generator that would help America win World War II.

The East Branch Sacandaga River defines much of the eastern boundary of the Siamese Ponds Wilderness, which is named for the ponds we just hiked to.

When you hike the Bog Meadow Trail, you enter the heart of what Paul Schaefer called Cabin Country, where his family began spending summers in 1921.

You first need to know something about the way Colonial surveyors marked county boundaries. It helps also to know something about Vincent and Paul Schaefer, who proposed the Long Path in 1931.

Whether you prefer the colors of vividly dying leaves in autumn or the placid pastels of wildflowers in spring, the vistas you'll find at the Dean Farm Heritage Trail are among the most rewarding you'll find anywhere in the southern Adirondacks.

If you're looking for a short, scenic hike you can do with the kids, you can't beat the Hooper Garnet Mine. Even better if you have a keen interest in Adirondack history, given the substantial role that the mining of garnet has played in it.

Stewart Creek was running high when we hiked the Oregon Trail Saturday, making for a great out-and-back to Stewart Flow.