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Adirondacks Style
At six million acres, New York's funky wilderness preserve, one of America's largest refuges, is also one of the most alluring. An aficionado explains why
October 2004 |
By Jonathan Kandell
Yellowstone Grumbles
Pent-up water and steam threaten to burst through the park's surface. (And we're not talking Old Faithful here)
July 2004 |
By Kevin Krajick
Shore Thing
In the new Boston Harbor Islands national park area, city dwellers can escape the madding crowds
August 2003 |
By Doug Stewart
Olmsted's Triumph
One hundred and fifty years ago this month, the New York State legislature set aside the land that would become Central Park. By 1876, landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted and architect Calvert Vaux had transformed the swampy, treeless 50 blocks between Harlem and midtown Manhattan into the first landscaped park in the United States. Here's to New York City's 843-acre backyard!
July 2003 |
By Witold Rybczynski
