On July 14, 2015, during my vacation to upstate New York, I made a trip to Tupper Lake, New York’s The W!ld Center, which is a natural history museum of upstate New York. Here are directions to the place. Their mission is to “Ignite an enduring passion for the Adirondacks where people and nature can thrive together and set an example for the world.” This is a really cool place that details life in the Adirondacks, from past to present. It is comprised of inside-naturalist-museum-stuff and an outside walk-through-the-woods stuff. At the museum there’s even a cafe that abuts a pond at sitting level, which is really cool! I’d wanted to visit this place for the past couple of years (it opened in 2004), but what really got my interest, was a new exhibit, called the “W!ld Walk.”
The W!ld Walk is an elevated platform, as high as 25 feet above the forest floor. It has various informative and kid-fun “stations” to visit that highlight various aspects of the Adirondack woodlands (see gallery, below). It’s a different perspective on the whole naturalist walk. My stepmom and I had fun visiting all the stations and gazing out over the forest below us. It was quite busy, and I heartily recommend a visit here!
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