With plentiful public access and good fishing for brook, brown, and rainbow trout,the West Branch Ausable is one of the Adirondack's premier rivers. (Frank Houck photo)
July 22, 2011
By Vince Wilcox
Adirondack Park encompasses a colossal expanse, one that easily swallows a combined Yellowstone and Yosemite national parks–twice. It is the largest park in the United States, federal or state, outside of Alaska. More than 2 million of its acres are state-owned, with unlimited public access to lakes and streams, and 1 million acres are designated as wilderness.
As early as the 1820s, the Adirondack area was a vacation destination for cooped-up urban dwellers, trophy hunters, and outdoor enthusiasts searching for clean air and wilderness. Among fly fishers, it became famous for its brook trout fishing.
Over the years, its fisheries have had the usual environmental knocks...
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