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Adirondack Mountains

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Adirondack Mountains
A group of mountains in northeast New York between the St. Lawrence River valley in the north and the Mohawk River valley in the south. The range is part of the Appalachian system and rises to 1,629.9 m (5,344 ft). Lakes, forests, and numerous winter sports resorts, including Lake Placid, site of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics, attract many tourists.
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Noun1.Adirondack MountainsAdirondack Mountains - a mountain range in northeastern New York State; a popular resort area
Empire State, New York State, NY, New York - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies


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These are the Androscoggin and Kennebec rivers in Maine, the Merrimack River that runs through Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the Adirondack Mountains in New York, and central Nova Scotia.
While any American History student could probably tell you that Theodore Roosevelt became the nation's 26th president after William McKinley was assassinated in 1901, far fewer would know that Roosevelt learned of McKinley's fate while vacationing at the Tahawus Club in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York.
The Hudson begins near the highest point of the Adirondack Mountains, Mount Marcy, at a pond called Tear of the Clouds Lake, and ends where it joins the sea at the Verrazano Narrows, between Brooklyn and Staten Island.
 
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