Camp Pine Knott • ONLY place in the world where you’ll find so many Gilded Age near one another • Birthplace of the Great Camps style of architecture • Not 1, not 2, but 3 National Historic Landmarks to visit! • (Collis P Huntington estate) • Sagamore (Alfred Vanderbilt estate) • Uncas (J.P. Morgan estate) Camp Sagamore • Added bonus! Walk where An- gelina Jolie, Matt Damon and Robert DeNiro worked as they filmed parts of the movie Good Shepherd at Sagamore Scene from he movie Good Shepherd. • Narrated boat ride as you cruise by other Great Camps on • Lodging and meals in the last Great Camp built, Minnowbrook, on Blue Mountain Lake Camp Minnowbrook

WW Durant Why not tuck this 2 day-1night treasure in your travel plans? Of course, City must be experienced! After your bite of the Big Apple, consider driving just six hours north on the super highway Route 87 to a part of New York State that will blow your stereotype image of New York out of the water! Welcome to the Adirondack State Park! Its six million acres of publicly and privately owned land make it the largest wilderness area in the contiguous 48 states. You’ll have bragging rights to NY’s extreme opposites: from the diversity, frenzy and energy of Manhattan to the hush and beauty of wilderness woods, waters and mountains in the Adirondacks.

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Sample itinerary on other side. 2DAYS/1NIGHT ftÅÑÄx \à|ÇxÜtÜçM Day 1 Travel to Blue Mt Lake. Check into Minnow- brook. www.minnowbrook.org Time to experience au- thentic Adirondack sights, sounds and smells: a pair of loons drifting by the dock; crackling of maple logs burn- ing in the stone fireplace; aroma of pine, spruce and bal- New York State sam trees with every breath. Enjoy the lodge’s many amenities: Paddle a canoe. Hike a trail. Sit by the fire. Cast a line from the dock.

Day 2 Travel 20 minutes to Raquette Lake village to board your water taxi for the trip over to Pine Knot, the first of the Great Camps built by the industrial moguls of the 20th century. After your guided tour of Pine Knot, continue the saga of the Gilded Age in the Adirondacks with a narrated cruise aboard the W.W. Durant. You’ll view other Great Camps on the lake including owned by Connecticut Governor Phinneas Lounsbury; Bluff Point, owned by the Collier publishing family and North Point, owned by the Carnegie family. Dine on the excellent luncheon fare prepared by CIA graduate Chef Jim. www.raquettelakenavigation.com

Upon docking, travel 15 minutes to , the Alfred Vanderbilt wilderness estate for over 50 years. www. sagamore.org Sagamore’s magnificent grounds and buildings have been in the public eye with the release of the spy movie Good Shepherd in December of 2006. Producer Robert DeNiro chose Sagamore as the place to recreate the Yale camp, Deer Island, that once stood in the Thousand Islands. Sagamore makes its movie entrance as a crane shot swoops down on the lawn party in front of the Main Lodge where stars Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie and William Hurt are sipping cocktails. Secrets are told in the Playhouse and Gloria’s Cottage. Mists arise in front of the Boat House. Ah, the grand and glorious days of Hollywood fame! After your guided tour of historic Camp Sagamore, travel another 10 minutes to , J. P. Morgan’s wilderness escape , for another guided peek into the world of the rich and famous at the turn of the century. All this vicarious hobnobbing builds a yearning to retreat to one’s own cozy corner. Return to Minnowbrook Lodge for cocktails, conversation and gourmet dining with excellent service. Dessert and coffee can be enjoyed around the fireplace.

Day 3 After breakfast and check-out, travel 5 minutes up Blue Mountain hill to the Adirondack Museum for a self-guided tour in what the New York Times calls “the best of its kind in the world.” www.adirondackmuseum.org The exhibits tell how Adirondack residents and tourists alike have lived, worked and played over the decades.

After a picnic lunch on Adirondack Museum grounds, there are many itinerary possibili- ties. You could head north for the 90 minute ride to Lake Placid and the High Peaks, home of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics. After Lake Placid travel east to pick up the Northway (87), heading south to Albany and New York City or north to Montreal, Canada. Or take the ferry across Lake Champlain to visit Vermont. So much to see and do, so little time! For more information:

Adirondack Receptive Services Division of Raquette Lake Navigation Co., Inc. 315-354-5532 [email protected] • www.adirondackreceptive.com Donna B. Pohl Group Tours Planner, Receptive Services Provider