New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Motorists Will
Throngg to North
Woods Region
From Canada, as Well as
This Country, Will Come
Thousands of Automobile
Tourists for 1920 Season

Already the vanguard of the army
- motorists from both sides of the
canadian line is on the move. From
the south they are coming over the
Quebec Miami highway, through the
- .be Adirondacks. Over the same
hroad highway from the north come
,brongs Of motorists from Montreal,
Quebec and other principal Canadian
points.
CITY. over the Quebec Miami highway,
liter leaving Lake George the motor
tourst receives his first intimation of
,be delights of the Adirondacks on
reaching Schroon Lake, thirty miles
further north.
From Schroon Lake to Elizabethtown
there is another run of thirty miles.
Flizabothtown is in the heart Of Pleas
ant Valley, one of the most beautiful
ri those smaller valleys which form q
mart OF the famous Champlain Valley.
through Pleasant Valley meanders the
Bouquet River on its way eastward and
rorthward to Lake Champlain.
For motorists Elizabethtown is o
very important junction, for it is here
that the Quebec Miami highway, which
New York City, makes a right angle
,urn TO the west and takes the plunge
into the heart of the Adirondacks. Also,
Il is here that the so-called "outslde"
route. which from Lake George village
skirts the shores of that lake and of
the western shore of Lake Champlain
10 Westport, joins the main highway.
Westport, on the height overlooking
Northwest Bay of Lake Champlain, IS
only eight miles distant from Eliza.
be.htown over the most direct route.
In the twelve miles between Eliza
bethtown and keene Center the climb
into the mountains is noticed as the
broad state highway tops the successive
rises.
At Keene Center the highway takes
north, and there is delightful trip Of
si1 miles along the East Branch to
the village of Upper Jay, from which
point on an equal distance to the vii
lsge Of Jay.
For those bound for Lake Placid,
saranac Lake, Paul Smiths and other
points Keene Center and Jay are alike
junction points. At the former a dirt
road leaves the highway, and after q
steep climb Up into the mountains
reaches Lake Placid via Cascade Pass.
gigantic cut in the rock wall, with
Long Pond and Pitchoff mountains
towering in air on either side of the
way. and the twin Cascade Lakes
spread the length Of the valley below
the roadway The Cascade Pass road
has been widened and otherwise i'm
proved.
At Jay the state highway, which
reaches Lake Placid. Saranac Lake,
Paul Smiths, Saranac Inn and the
other points within the center of the
mountains, leaves the Quebec Miami
highway and makes an abrupt ascent
for few miles to the village of Will
mington, on the banks of the West
Branch of the Ausable. Wilmington
Notch, through which the highway
passes en- route to Lake Placid, is one
Of the beauty spots of the Adiron-
dacks.
Beyond ten village Of Ausable
Forks the East and the West
branches unite. Through this village,
through Keeseville, past the chasm and
with n easy distance Of Port Kent, the
Quebec Miami highway leads to Bluff
Point and Plattsburg. After looping
down through Saranac Lake and Lake
Placid. IN the heart of the mountains,
The Roosevelt Highway follows this
same route to Plattsburg on it's way
across Lake Champlain via special
ferry to Vermont and New Hampshire.