Roosevelt Marcy Memorial Highway Scenic Byway

One of 13 Scenic Byways of the Adirondack North Country

• North Creek - With Gore Mountain Ski Center open since the early 1900s, this village has a number of restaurants and shops to sample. The whole complex of the North Creek Depot Museum, consisting of the station, old station, freight house, round house, tool house, turntable and horse barn, is remarkably intact and provides an interesting record of railroad history dating back to 1874. At the Depot the Upper Hudson River Railroad offers a 2 hour scenic train ride along the Hudson River to the train station at Riverside and back. Richard Landon, a regional travel writer, writes about his train ride and museum visiting in Riding the Rails in North Creek.
• Minerva - Nestled between the Hudson River, Vanderwhacker Mountain Wild Forest and The Hoffman Notch Wilderness is the Township of Minerva and the hamlet of Olmstedville. Minerva offers the 100-acre Minerva Lake/Donnelly Beach and day trip trails along the Hudson River, and to Huntley and Stoney Ponds. The Minerva Historcal Society and Museum has two permanent exhibits: Winslow Homer prints of his original oils and water colors and The Tree of Life Mural with charts and files for researching ancestry of the original settlers of Minerva. Winslow Homer painted some one hundred watercolors and eight oils while staying in Minerva. The industries of potash, lumbering, and mining define the history of Minerva
• Newcomb - This village, which lines route 28N for many miles, is the home of the Newcomb Interpretive Visitor's Center. And located off route 28N, just past the Overlook Monument (some of the best mountain views of the region), is the Hudson River Information Center, a small interpretive center about the history of lumbering in the Town of Newcomb. Picnic tables offer an opportunity to enjoy views of the Hudson River and High Peaks. The Hudson descends 1600 feet between here and the Atlantic Ocean. Although a few later Adirondack camps had more property or more or larger buildings, Santanoni's 12,900 acres, 45 or more buildings, fine rustic workmanship, and large farm operation, considered together, make Santanoni one of the grandest of the Adirondack Great Camps.
• Long Lake - Both the lake, nearly fourteen miles long and only a mile wide at its broadest point, and the village, which follows the shoreline for some seven miles, are appropriately named. As in many other mountain communities, the summer residents, many whose families have been coming for generations, enlarge the population many times over during the season. They come to enjoy the many rituals of summer such as boating, hiking and eating ice cream at one of three stands. In the winter, snowmobilers and cross country skiers come to Long Lake. In 1874 Seneca Ray Stoddard's following narrative about Long Lake attracted visitors to this area.
• Adirondack Regional Tourism Council provides a description of more of the natural attractions along the Roosevelt Marcy Memorial Highway Scenic Byway. Click on Attractions and Tours, then Scenic Byways.
• Teddy's Trail: Indian Lake, Long Lake, Blue Mountain Lake, and Newcomb is a bicyclist's narrative of the Roosevelt-Marcy Scenic Byway (first page [North Creek], and then jump to third page [Long Lake]).


Find additional visitor information on available services, food, accommodations, events, etc. at the following websites;
Gore Mountain Region
Schroon Lake Region Chamber
Long Lake and Raquette Lake
Hamilton County
Lake Placid/Essex County CVB
Warren County Tourism
Adirondack Regional Tourism Council

Maps of Adirondack North Country
and Tourist Oriented Signage