Parking system resumes Monday
Reservations required to access High Peaks parking lots, trails
— A parking reservation system meant to promote safe access to trails in the Route 73 corridor will resume Monday, state Department of Environmental Conservation and Adirondack Mountain Reserve said Saturday.
From May 1 to Oct. 31, reservations will be needed to access the parking lot, trailheads and trails on the reserve’s privately owned 7,000-acre property in the town of Keene in the Adirondack High Peaks region. AMR has a longstanding conservation easement with DEC that allows public access for hiking. Additional hiking opportunities and parking lots can be found throughout the 2.6 million acres of public lands within the Adirondack Forest Preserve on a first-come, first-served basis. View a map of AMR within the Adirondack Forest Preserve (PDF)
From May 1 through Oct. 31, reservations will be required to access the parking lot, trailheads, and trails on the privately owned 7,000-acre AMR property in the town of Keene in the High Peaks region. The reserve has a conservation easement with DEC that allows public access for hiking.
Advanced parking reservations are available at no cost and must be obtained for singleday or overnight use. Seventy reservations, including overnight reservations, are available per day, according to the DEC. Walk-in users without a reservation are not permitted unless these users can provide a GreyALBANY hound or Trailways bus ticket from within the past 24 hours. Reservations are also required for access to the Noonmark and Round Mountain trailheads located on the reserve’s property. New bookings for 2023 began April 17. Reservations can be made as far as two weeks in advance. Users will be able to make reservations 14 days out on a 24-hour rolling basis. Reminder emails go out to reservation holders in advance of their designated time asking them to confirm or cancel. If a reservation is canceled, the reservation immediately becomes available on the website.
Check hikeamr.org if reservations are not available on a chosen date. In 2022, the reservation system accepted more than 10,000 reservations. There were 3,801 reservation cancellations, with 3,776 of the canceled reservations rebooked.