The Sagamore Great Camp provides my kind of "outdoor experience". The facility is in a very private jewel-like setting in Adirondack Park, approached via a 4-mile gravel road and a gated, one-lane bridge. It quickly weaves its spell -- hard to leave and one looks forward to a return. The experience is a blend of "roughing it" (putting the linen...
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- Also Known As:
- Great Camp Sagamore Hotel Raquette Lake
- Great Camp Sagamore Hotel
- Official Description (provided by the hotel):
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Sagamore, once the summer retreat of the Alfred Vanderbilt family, is now a National Historic Landmark that runs a variety of residential education programs from late May until late October. Neither a hotel, motel nor resort, we are instead a non-profit "living museum," one that attempts to allow as many people as possible to learn more about Adirondack history, nature and the Gilded Age amid the rustic beauty of our wilderness location.
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