Bisecting the Adirondack Park roughly down the middle, our Adirondack Traverse route includes over 200 miles of hiking, biking and paddling through the ‘Dak’s varying terrains. Starting where Route 309 crosses the “Blue Line”, our route is broken into 17 sections, each of which can be traveled in a day, including 14 of the Adirondack’s most scenic lean-tos and two improvised tent sites before emerging through the town of Santa Clara and back across the blue line. Worked into the route are two regional classics, the Northville-Placid Trail which is completed in almost in its entirety, and the Seven-Carries Canoe Route.

We have chosen to break the route up further into six sections, each separated from one another by a location where we will meet a support team to take on new food and clean clothes, offload garbage, etc. The route has also been designed so that it is at these points that methods of transportation may change, allowing us to meet, pass off our bikes and pick up a canoe, for example. Within most larger sections we are also allowing ourselves one weather/rest day ensuring that we have ample time to enjoy our surroundings or hunker down in case of bad weather, without compromising our pre-planned meet-up date.

Click here for a GPX file of the route.

Click here for a PDF “guide book”, developed for the purposes of this expedition only, outlining in detail each section of the Traverse route, including all relevant sections from both the ADK Northville-Placid Guide Book and the Adirondack Canoe Waters North Flow guidebook.

We know this route may not be perfect due to a lack of available information concerning some parts. We are currently reaching out to our local Adirondack community asking for their assistance in making this route flawless. If you have any concerns, ideas, etc, join the conversation here or email us!

The route, as we are following it, is laid out below.