Another of the Adirondack Park’s most important visitor destinations won’t open in the summer of 2020. Elk Lake Lodge is a luxury getaway on more than 12,000 acres in Essex County on the ...

He loved the Adirondacks, camping at Clear Pond in 1905. Down the road on Elk Lake, a reverend operated a two-story log cabin retreat, which would later become Elk Lake Lodge.

Elk Lake Lodge is situated on 12,000 acres of privately-owned forest preserve. With no television or cell phone service, the silence is hardly ever broken, except for the haunting call of the loon.