Hidden Gems
Hidden Gems of Northern New York
A signature ClickNNY collection: the places locals love and most visitors drive straight past.
This guide is being researched and written now. While it is, start with the destinations below or the fall getaways guide.
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Where to go in the meantime
IllustrationWestern Adirondacks
Wanakena
A former logging hamlet on the Oswegatchie River with a pedestrian suspension footbridge and the SUNY ESF Ranger School.
IllustrationTug Hill
Lyons Falls
An old mill village where the Moose River meets the Black River, with falls right in town.
IllustrationLake Ontario
Chaumont
A small village on Chaumont Bay known for its old limestone houses, quiet water and, in a cold winter, ice fishing.
IllustrationThousand Islands
Chippewa Bay
A small river hamlet at the downstream end of the islands, near Singer Castle on Dark Island, with a scatter of tiny cottage islands offshore.
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Western Adirondacks
Colton & South Colton
Raquette River country on the edge of the Adirondacks, with Higley Flow State Park and the Stone Valley trail along the river's falls and rapids.