Cranberry Lake and Wanakena

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Cranberry Lake and Wanakena is written by Susan Thomas Smeby and published by Arcadia Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0738509698 (ISBN 10) and 9780738509693 (ISBN 13).

In the northwest corner of the Adirondack Park lie Cranberry Lake and the village of Wanakena. This remote area was the last-settled part of New York State; from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, its name evoked the very essence of wilderness. Initially, sportsmen, naturalists, and artists flocked to the area. By 1900, summer tourism was booming. The logging industry followed, to harvest the virgin timber; after that, the state purchased the mostly cleared lands. Today, seventy-five percent of the lake's shoreline is state owned, and the Five Ponds Wilderness, south of Wanakena, is one of the largest and wildest areas in the Adirondacks.