This lot is very interesting. It has a real feeling of being back to nature--and the view is really pretty! If you are going to have a place in the Adirondacks, why not have a wonderful Adirondack view? And owning in a nice patch of woods is pretty cool too.

The view is great! It is very peaceful too. Originally the Realtor said I should ask $79,000 for the lot. I am now reducing the price to $36,000. This is because I don't think anyone has looked.

Originally I had three of these lots. The other two sold and now have nice small camping cabins on them. The cabins are probably under five hundred square feet of space. They are solar and off the grid. They look like a lot of fun. If I lived closer I would build one of these less expensive cabins too.

A cabin on this lot could be a great getaway or romantic getaway. The view is pretty wonderful. The air has a really nice Adirondack aroma too. There is a large level patch of woods behind the home site that is kind of magical too. There is peaceful deep woods sense about this space--with moss and nice trees.

The lot is about six miles from I-87, The Northway Exit 26. This is about four hours from New York City and an hour and a half from Albany. The friendly town has a Beach Park, tennis courts, basketball, hockey rink and cross country ski trails. There is a major ski area about eight miles away (Gore Mountain) and a larger lake about six miles away (Schroon Lake). There is great canoeing and hiking around town.

The lot is set up for maximum privacy from the home site. There is sixty feet of vegetation barrier required between this home site and the one next door (the thirty foot lot barrier is not required facing outward). I don't think there will ever be a house there because the next door neighbor on that side built down near the road. Heavy forest exists in these areas. The lot has good privacy - however it is not isolated. The land behind the home site is aromatically wooded. There is about an acre of pretty level woods included in the home site. So there is room for a nice barn, pool, or whatever you want back there. But those woods are so nice you might want to just have an outdoor living room there! It is kind of a magical space.

The lot is not for everyone though. It does have a longer, in a couple of places, sorta steep driveway. The driveway is longer than most. The home site is six hundred feet back from the road. People who enjoy being off the road, maybe four wheel driving sometimes, and nice peaceful mountain views would really like this lot. It is really a great outdoorsy type place. The driveway brings you to a nice kind of non-civilized, back-to-nature site for a house or cabin. The site area is wooded (not all logged out like many lots).

I do think, once the driveway is used more, that a two wheel drive could be used most times without a problem. The driveway just hasn't really been used (and really packed down). And it doesn't have a rock surface yet. I live too far away to visit or spend time there and use the driveway. Right now the driveway seems firm enough that a front wheel drive car could be driven there without any problems (but no guarantees).

The driveway is roughed in. This means that there is now a dirt road that will work best with four wheel drive vehicles. I am told by a Realtor that ten loads of #4 stone, at $120 per load, will create a good year round base for a driveway. I get the feeling he has had or seen a bunch of driveways built. I once bought one hundred eighty tons of rock for my home in Virginia. It cost me around three thousand dollars delivered. On a dry day a good truck driver could spread the rock over the roughed in driveway.

The lot really feels a part of the Adirondack Mountains.  You can feel the Adirondack spirit and sense of adventure as you drive in.  You get to drive through a nice chunk of your Adirondack woods to get to the home site.

You may want to pave the driveway.  That costs more than the price of rocking the driveway but then you have the best surface.  (When I lived in the Adirondacks full time I found it best to have four wheel drive with four studded snow tires in the winter months.)  

There is a chance that a well could be shared (cost and water) with the other two lots.  They seem interested.  Otherwise a well can be drilled on the lot.  The electricity (and a transformer) is at the road.  There is also the chance of sharing the cost of a few necessary small scale telephone poles.

The land survey is below.  

This year Gore Mountain Ski Area (a large and popular ski area eight miles away) has gotten approvals and budget to complete the connection between the historic North Creek Ski Bowl (adding a new quad chairlift and snowmaking). Work has begun on new trails and a lift line!   I just read in the paper that the new lift has been delivered.  Night skiing has already begun utilizing last year's new triple chair on the outside of the downtown area of North Creek.  These improvements should be very good for the entire area.  [Article]  Gore Mountain Ski Area will then be the sixth largest ski area in the east. 

There is a lot more work on the drawing board.  The North Creek Ski Train sounds like it is going to be a reality again soon too. Excitement is really in the North Creek air!

White water rafting is also big on the Hudson River.  Mountain biking and gondola rides are done on Gore Mountain during the summer season.  My favorite pastime is just driving around this entire beautiful area taking photos and marveling over the countryside.

This land is in the town Winslow Homer painted many of his famous Adirondack landscapes while a member of the North Woods Club.  The Club is still here.  Most all of the natural beauty is still around too.

This parcel is quite special.  (I have probably made too big a deal of the driveway.)  There are wonderful forest aromas.  This is a unique area to live a significant portion of your life.  The Adirondack Park is quite a novel place.  It has a beauty and charm that really seems to have carried over from the past.  There are other lots for sale locally but not with the personality of this lot.  I have owned the land since 1990.  I just live too far away now to enjoy it.