The property is described as having “enormous outdoor recreational potential”
A massive property in the Adirondacks that environmental groups have sought to conserve is currently for sale.
Whitney Park, a 36,500-acre estate in the Adirondacks that has belonged to the Whitney family for more than a century, was recently listed for $125 million by Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty.
The property includes 22 lakes and ponds, over 100 miles of undeveloped shoreline, and is lightly developed with continuous high forest canopy.
The beneficiary of the sale won’t be a family member, but rather the town of Long Lake, New York. In March, it was revealed that the land’s prior owner, John Hendrickson, had named Long Lake the beneficiary in his will prior to his death last year.
The property – which ranks as the largest privately-owned, contiguous estate property in the Adirondacks – was briefly listed for sale in 2020 for $180 million.
According to the conservation group Protect The Adirondacks, Whitney Park has been a high priority property listed in New York’s “Open Space Conservation Plan” for decades.
The latest version of this plan described the tract as containing “enormous outdoor recreational potential.”
Whitney Park’s interconnected waterways are part of a historic 19th-century canoe route. The property includes 80 miles of private roads, 100 miles of trails, two camps, and several historic buildings.
In November, Protect The Adirondacks was one of eight conservation groups that called on New York Governor Kathy Hochul to protect the land either by purchasing it for the Forest Preserve, as a conservation easement, or a combination of the two.
