Giant pines and pillowy cascades

When the Adirondack Mountain Club expanded the footprint of its guidebook Eastern Trails into western Warren and southern Hamilton counties, I suddenly had a lot of new turf to cover, mostly in the Wilcox Lake Wild Forest. Recently, I visited two extraordinary places near Wells. You should go, make a day of it for each, and also spend time in that pretty village by Lake Algonquin on the East Branch of the Sacandaga River.

Here is what I found:

A Dazzling Triad

The first one you come upon up above and around a bend. The second one you spy straight on through the trees. The third one jumps up on you from a small gorge down below. This trio of cascades make up the pillowy and arresting rungs of Tenant Creek: They drop down this otherwise placid stream, which the trail goes up, but because it’s a one-way route, you also get to come back down and revisit the