The Adirondack High Peaks seen from St. Regis Mountain. (Wikimedia Photo)

The Adirondack High Peaks seen from St. Regis Mountain. (Wikimedia Photo)

New York’s recent purchase of 6,200 acres in the Adirondack High Peaks will preserve a pristine stretch of Hudson River headwater and could expand the High Peaks Wilderness Area to the south.

According to an article on TheRepublic.com, the purchase gives paddlers a new area to explore at the upper reaches of the Hudson River and hikers will get better access to some mountains, including 46er Allen Mountain, which is notoriously difficult to get to.

“People will be astonished at the beauty of this area,” Mike Carr, executive director of The Nature Conservancy, said Thursday. “The fact that we still have places like this to preserve in 2015 is amazing.”

Read about New York’s purchase of 6,200 acres in the Adirondack High Peaks.