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Minerva:<br />
CELEBRATING OUR BICENTENNIAL YEAR: If you’re looking for an authentic Adirondack<br />
experience or a base camp for further exploration, look no further than Minerva. Conveniently<br />
located just minutes from Northway Exit 26, Minerva offers year round amenities and<br />
adventures including Minerva Lake, Donnelly Beach, the Minerva Campgrounds, boating,<br />
fishing, hiking, ice fishing, snowmobiling, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, biking, birding,<br />
hunting and so much more!<br />
Stay at the Minerva Campgrounds Spring to Fall (5<strong>18</strong>-251-2869), find a room<br />
at one of our local Cottages or B&Bs, or start looking for your next home.<br />
Come for a day, a week or come to stay. You’ll find the essence of the<br />
Adirondacks in Minerva, NY!<br />
www.townofminerva.com • (5<strong>18</strong>) 251-2869<br />
Photo Credit: Town of Minerva, NY<br />
Minerva<br />
Visitors looking for a classic Adirondack vacation spot need<br />
look no further than the Town of Minerva. Located just minutes<br />
off the Northway in the southern part of Essex County, NY Minerva<br />
has been a favorite year-round destination and base camp<br />
for Adirondack tourist’s since the late <strong>18</strong>00’s. In fact, the word<br />
vacation was coined in the late <strong>18</strong>00’s to mean people should<br />
vacate the cities and move to the mountains for fresh air and<br />
relaxation - exactly what Minerva offers tourists today.<br />
Founded by Farming families after the Revolutionary War,<br />
Minerva’s economic history includes iron mining, tanning, milling<br />
and logging. Today the focus is on<br />
tourism, recreational boat building and<br />
forest products.<br />
Minerva, which was incorporated in<br />
<strong>18</strong>17, covers 162 square miles with over<br />
60% of its land in the “forever wild”<br />
ADK Park Preserve.<br />
Visitors to Minerva will find that<br />
Minerva Lake, with its beautiful beach,<br />
playgrounds, pavilions, campground,<br />
bathhouse and food stand serves as the<br />
town hub of summer activities. The<br />
town-wide Minerva Day celebration culminates<br />
with a vibrant fireworks display at Donnelly Beach, and<br />
will take place on Saturday, July 1st. Check the Town website at<br />
www.townofminerva.com for additional details. When the lake<br />
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freezes over each winter, visitors use the lake for ice fishing,<br />
snowmobiling, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing.<br />
The Hudson and Boreas Rivers flow through Minerva,<br />
providing recreational fishing, whitewater rafting and canoeing<br />
opportunities. Many top-rated hiking trails start and end in<br />
Minerva including hikes for Moxham Mountain, Stony Pond<br />
and Blue Ledges. ADK Park land acquisitions in 2013 added<br />
additional camping, hiking, biking, paddling, snowmobiling<br />
and horseback riding access to lands in northern Minerva which<br />
have not been open to the public for the past 100 years. Birders<br />
and other nature enthusiasts should keep Minerva on their radar<br />
screens for interesting sightings and species.<br />
Families with children enjoy<br />
Minerva Central School’s reputation<br />
for quality education and the Minerva<br />
Youth Program’s summer day camp.<br />
Notable Minerva residents have<br />
included Solomon Northup (12 Years<br />
a Slave) and internationally known<br />
educator Ella Lynch, as well as part<br />
time residents Ruth Bader Ginsburg<br />
(who attended Camp Che-Na-Wah)<br />
and Winslow Homer who stayed at the<br />
North Woods Club while painting most<br />
of his ADK works.<br />
The summer Concerts in the Park series will open its third<br />
season on June 14th with an encore performance by Double Vision,<br />
followed by the vocal stylings of Susan Richards July 12th<br />
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