161,000 acres...is a paultrydrop in the bucket.
Note that the majority is privately owned and canbe bought/soldon a whim. The State will likely never relinquish the Public Landwhich it's taked great pains to aquire in the past several decades.
The Adirondack Mountains are contained within the 6.1 million acresof the
Adirondack Park, which includes a constitutionally-protected
Forest Preserve of approximately 2.3 million acres. About 43% of the land is owned by the state, with 57% private
inholdings, heavily regulated by the
Adirondack Park Agency.
[2] The Adirondack Park contains thousands of streams, brooks and lakes, most famously
Lake Placid, adjacent to the village of
Lake Placid, two-time site of the
Olympic Winter Games, the
Saranac Lakes, favored by the sportsmen who made the Adirondacks famous, and
Raquette Lake, site of many of the first
Great Camps.