PLANNING A TRIP

The Wild Center is located in Tupper Lake. There are numerous lakes and rivers nearby, including nine-mile long Tupper Lake and the Raquette river that runs by the Center's campus. The town of Tupper Lake has a distinct history of pioneers, loggers, and Adirondack sportsmen. The railway arrived in Tupper in the 1890's and much of the modern town was built in the boom years that followed. Tupper was the lumber capital of New York in the early 1900s. You can see the huge site of the giant mill down by the lake shore. Today the site is a public park, and home to local events, including the annual Woodsmen Field Days festival where lumberjack skills are on display every July.

The links to area travel resources below can help you with travel plans to the region.

• Adirondack Regional Tourism
• Franklin County Tourism
• Lake Placid/Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism 
• Long Lake Tourism
• Tupper Lake Information 
• Saranac Lake Chamber of Commerce
• Adirondack Scenic Byways

Cultural Institutions and places to see 

• Adirondack Museum
• Ausable Chasm
• Fort Ticonderga
• Great Camp Sagamore
  
• High Falls Gorge
• Lake Placid Olympic Sites Passport
• Natural Stone Bridge and Caves
• Santa's Workshop, North Pole, NY
• Whiteface Memorial Highway