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Cabins in Northern New York
Tug Hill, the western Adirondacks and Black Lake are the North Country’s cabin country.
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Tug Hill
Lowville
The Lewis County seat, a farm-country main street on the eastern edge of Tug Hill and a natural base for Whetstone Gulf and the Black River valley.
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Tug Hill
Turin
A small Tug Hill town best known as the home of Snow Ridge ski area, with hardwood ridges that put on a strong fall show.
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Tug Hill
Montague
One of the most remote towns on the Tug Hill plateau: state forest, deep snow in winter and almost nobody around in fall.
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Cranberry Lake
A big, wild lake in the northwestern Adirondacks, mostly ringed by state Forest Preserve, with a small hamlet, camps and the Cranberry Lake 50 trail.
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Hammond & Black Lake
Black Lake runs some twenty miles through rural St. Lawrence County, lined with camps and cottages and known for its fishing.