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View historic bird's eye maps collected from the Library of Congress for several communities in the Adirondack Park.
Download the kmz file to view in Google Earth (kmz 4.4MB requires Google Earth software)

Maps & Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) uses GIS to understand and support the natural and cultural resources of the Park. Below, you'll find a sampling of Agency produced maps, spatial data, statistics, and analyses and presentations.

Here's a brief history of GIS at the Adirondack Park Agency.

The APA has several GIS CD-ROM's Available containing data and analytical reports.

MAP ROOM

Adirondack Park Land Use and Development Plan Map and State Land Map - March 2009 edition
2009 Facsimilie of the official zoning map showing private and state land classifications. Also includes the Adirondack portion of the NYS Wild, Scenic and Recreational Rivers System. See 2009 Park Land Use Classification acreage statistics below. view map (Adobe Flash required)
Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan Map - June 1972 edition
June 1972 edition of the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan map produced by the State of New York Adirondack Park Agency, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Governor. Indicates Wilderness, Canoe Area, Primitive Area, Wild Forest, Intensive Use state land classifications at that time. view map (pdf 1.4MB)
Park Broadband Availability - November 2010
NY Broadband data is from the New York State Broadband Mapping Program. The following maps depict NY Broadband data on Adirondack Park Agency base maps. Visit New York State's Interactive Broadband Availability Map for the most current state-wide information, address search, area comparisons, glossary of terms and much more. Check out "The Basics" for summary information on this mapping project.
Adirondack Park Broadband Wireless Availability Showing mobile wireless availability. view PDF (682KB)
Adirondack Park Broadband Wireline Availability Combined view PDF (552KB) Area of broadband availability refers to those individual US Census Blocks, less than 2 square miles, or road segments within Blocks greater than 2 square miles where each facilities-based provider of broadband service can provide broadband services of minimal characteristics within 7 - 10 business days.
Adirondack Park Broadband Wireline Availability Showing DSL, Cable, and Fiber to the End User availability by census block or road segment. view PDF (638KB) or GIF image (282KB) Area of broadband availability refers to those individual US Census Blocks, less than 2 square miles, or road segments within Blocks greater than 2 square miles where each facilities-based provider of broadband service can provide broadband services of minimal characteristics within 7 - 10 business days.
Park Population Estimate of Towns from 2000 and 2010 Census
Census Population of Towns Within the Adirondack Park With Estimates for Census Blocks Straddling the Park Boundary. View 2010 Map View slideshow (pdf 2.4MB) View 2000 Map View slideshow (pdf 408kb) Additional estimates of seasonal population and several 2010 Adirondack region KMZ data layers are also available.
Population within a Days Drive
The question was raised,"how many people live within a days drive of the Adirondack Park?" This map and the GIS analysis behind it uses census data from the US and Canada clipped with a 350 mile buffer around the Adirondack Park. Our guess of a days car drive was derived from a 7 hour travel day with an average speed of 50 miles per hour. So how many people are only a day away? There are around 84 Million people including about 18,000,000 Canadians and 66,000,000 Americans.	view map (pdf 640kb)
Easements
Adirondack Forest Easements map - A generalized map of Adirondack Park Land Use and Development Plan private land classifications under DEC easements. (Some easements include public access rights, others do not. Don't trespass. Contact DEC for information about the location of protected lands with public recreation rights.) view map (pdf 450kb)
Historic Forest Preserve
New York State Adirondack Park Forest Preserve Lands 1892 and 2002 view map
Land Cover
Adirondack Park Land Cover from USGS National Land Cover Data An interpretation by the USGS of general forest covertypes in the United States. view map (pdf 966kb)
Schools
Adirondack Park School Districts map view map
Towers
Adirondack Park Cellular Towers Map New and existing structures for which the APA has permitted cellular service use (1993 through 2011). view map (pdf 594kb) updated 12/12/2012
Interstate 87 "Northway" Cellular Towers Map New and existing structures for which the APA has permitted cellular service use (1993 through 2011). view map (pdf 457kb) updated 12/12/2012
Viewshed Protection
Town of Day Viewshed Protection Area view map (pdf 2.9MB) view slideshow of analysis process (pdf 1.4MB)
Zip Codes
Adirondack Park Zip Code Areas map view map (pdf 585kb)
Lakes and Ponds Entirely Surrounded by Forest Preserve
Lakes and ponds entirely surrounded by the Forest Preserve provide users with a wide spectrum of experiences. Using the APA's enhanced land classification GIS data, this map inventories lakes and ponds entirely surrounded by the Forest Preserve view map (pdf 1.2 MB) Water Body Statistics view bar chart view pie chart view list of lakes greater than 250 acres view points in Google Maps for lakes greater than or equal to 25 acres
Historic Snowmobile Use on Forest Preserve
The State Land Master Plan (SLMP) outlines a "mileage cap" of snowmobile trails at the time of its adoption in 1972. However, the exact location of those trails was not included. This begs the questions “Where were those trails?” This map is a re-creation of the DEC 1972 snowmobile trail brochure entitled: Snowmobile Trails in New York State (10/1972) view map (pdf 1 MB)
Military Training Routes
A map of New York's Air National Guard Adirondack Military Training Routes, or MTRs. view map (pdf 603kb)
Remsen-Lake Placid Travel Corridor Recreation Opportunities
A map of trails and roads aljacent to the Remsen-Lake Placid Travel Cooridor. view map (pdf 1,000 kb)

The "Cart Room"

In the basement of the APA headquarters there's a room called the "Cart Room." Cart is short for Cartography. Over the years this room has been filled with drafting tables, boxes stuffed with oversized rolled maps and flat files holding nearly 200 drawers of "quad" maps. Drafting pens and mylar began to give way in 1981 to our first computer affectionately but cautiously called "HAL." This was before the days of DOS when "digitizing" was an unknown concept to most of us.

Hal was replaced by a mini-computer then by UNIX, then by Windows. When these computers were still in the minority, they were named Colvin, Marcy and Hudson. Printers and plotters were named Winslow, Homer, and Tait after Adirondack painters. Now PC's are on every desktop - too many to name.

The Adirondacks were once "lands unknown." Explorer/cartographers like Verplanck Colvin and Seneca Ray Stoddard began charting the wilderness, providing a reference for us to follow. In the 1980's and '90's, digital maps of the Adirondacks by the APA brought these lands to the forefront of modern mapping in the state and perhaps the country.

Fast Facts

A look at the APA "Lookup System". Describes how GIS is used at the APA headquarters to locate projects in relation to the resources of the Park. The Lookup System is not an on-line GIS application.

6er draft work

Adirondack Park Land Classification Map

The Adirondack Park Land Use and Development Plan Map and State Land Master Plan Map reduced facsimile can be viewed online here...

Adirondack GIS CD

Order a Shared Adirondack GIS CD-ROM for the Adirondack Park containing over 50 data layers.
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APA Shared CD layers page

WMS and KML layers can be accessed here and from the Data Center tab at this Adirondack Park Interactive map

ArcGIS.com
APA layer packages with symbology and metadata for park boundary, land class and wetlands. Must have ArcGIS 9.3.1 or above. Set Show to All Content then serach for adirondack.

NYS GIS Clearinghouse

Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository (CUGIR)

New York Ocean & Great Lakes Atlas: Data Portal - enter search word 'adirondack' to retrieve information on 24 data layers most of which are from the Shared Adirondack GIS CD. Data can be downloaded in ESRI, Mapinfo and KML formats. Metadata is available. Data can be viewed through the online Data Viewer. Layers such as Adirondack Park Land Class, Wetlands, and Wild, Scenic and Recreational Rivers may not be the most current versions and are not intended for legal jurisdictional determinations. Many other statewide layers are also available for download and viewing.

Mapping Applications:

Adirondack Park
Interactive map
Adirondack Park Regional GIS Consortium website

NYS Aerial Imagery
View and download Orthophoto Imagery for New York at
NYS Orthos Online
Orthophotos are photos taken from the air adjusted to overlay with maps.

DEC
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Mapping Gateway

Soils
Soil Maps from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Web Soil Survey
Provides detailed soils maps and descriptions. You must define an Area of Interest first then click the Soil Map tab.

Road Conditions
511NY Traffic, Travel and Transit Info
current travel conditions and maps from the NYS Department of Transportation

Archeology
NYS OPRHP Archeology and National Register Use Internet Explorer browser only. Allow pop-ups for this site.

Historic Base Maps
Historic USGS Maps of New York and New England UNH Library reference images (not geo-referenced) of USGS quads from early 1900's.

County Real Property
Clinton County real property - use Public Access

Essex County real property

Fulton County real property

Hamilton County Online Mapping System

Herkimer County real property - use Public Access

St. Lawrence County Open GeoPortal - various layers including parcel search

Saratoga County real property - use Public Access

Washington County real property - use Public Access