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Architect’s rendering of the bandshell that will replace the one destroyed by fire in June, 2024. Courtesy AJA Architecture and Planning.

The Rebirth of Shepard Park

120 years after the Lake House hotel was demolished, the park that replaced it is slated to receive some of its most significant upgrades ever. Shepard Park – named in honor of the Brooklyn philanthropist and politician Edward Morse Shepard, whose ... Read More
Pilot Knob Mountain, which the LGLC is raising funds to protect, from above Assembly Point. If the land were to be developed, the view from the lake’s near and west shores, a view shared by boaters, island campers, would be disfigured. Photo by Crown Focus Media.

Summit of Pilot Knob Mountain to be Protected

The Lake George Land Conservancy (LGLC) has launched a campaign to raise $9 million to protect more than 1,200 acres of forests above Lake George – including the summit of Pilot Knob Mountain.  Pilot Knob Mountain has belonged to one family ... Read More
Dr. Kevin Rose, director of the Jefferson Project, an RPI professor and acting director of the Darrin Freshwater Institute, was the featured speaker at the Lake George Association’s 2025 Lake Summit, held May 15 at the Courtyard Marriott in Lake George Village. Photo by Tim Behuniak. Courtesy of LGA.

RPI, LGA, Jefferson Project Add Climate Change to Water Quality Watchlist

When the Darrin Fresh Water Institute’s “The State of the Lake: Thirty Years of Water Quality Monitoring on Lake George, New York, 1980-2009” was released in 2014, three threats to long-term health of Lake George were identified: road salt, ... Read More