Jamie Frasier of Adirondack Mountain and Stream Guide Service and his team have been guiding adventurous folk like you through the Adirondacks' mountains, lakes, rivers, and streams for over 40 years. Call ahead to book your tour!
Adirondack Mountain and Stream Guide Service is fully licensed and specializes in backcountry outings throughout the Adirondacks. As a four-season guide service, the team lives and works in the Adirondacks and enjoys helping others experience the region’s outdoors.
Guided trips include hiking, backpacking, fishing, and cross-country skiing, along with canoe and kayak trips on the region’s many lakes, rivers, and streams.
Spring, Summer, and Fall Guided Outings in the Adirondacks
Guided Hiking Trips
Adirondack Mountain and Stream Guide Service offers guided hiking trips for a range of experience levels, including first-time hikers and seasoned Adirondack trekkers. Options include scenic day hikes and longer overnight outings that allow more time to explore the Adirondack Park and its varied landscapes.
Guides help hikers navigate a variety of terrain and tailor each outing to the group’s interests, experience level, and goals. Trips can be relaxed hikes or more challenging backcountry adventures, with local knowledge shared along the way.
Trips include:
- Day Hiking: Guided outings on Adirondack trails, suited to each hiker’s experience level and interests.
- Overnight Hiking Trips: Multi-day guided adventures with more time to explore the backcountry.
- Snowshoeing: Guided snowshoe outings on Adirondack trails during the winter months.
Adirondack Fishing Trips
The Adirondack Park is home to thousands of lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams. Remote trout ponds and larger lakes known for lake trout, pike, and bass provide a wide variety of fishing opportunities throughout the region.
Adirondack Mountain and Stream Guide Service designs each guided fishing trip around the angler’s experience level, interests, and goals. Guides lead trips on quiet streams, remote ponds, and larger lakes, using a variety of techniques across the seasons.
Trips include:
- Fly Fishing: Streams, rivers, ponds, and lakes for trout, pike, and bass.
- Ice Fishing: Winter fishing on Adirondack lakes for species such as lake trout, northern pike, walleye, and perch.
- Motorboat Fishing: Trips on larger Adirondack lakes to reach deeper water and productive fishing areas.
- Pond and Lake Fishing: Fishing from a canoe, kayak, or rowboat on both remote and easily accessible waters.
- Backcountry Trout Pond Trips: Excursions into remote wilderness waters in search of Adirondack brook trout.
Guided Canoe and Kayak Trips
Adirondack Mountain and Stream Guide Service leads guided canoe and kayak trips on quiet ponds, scenic lakes, slow-moving rivers, and classic Adirondack travel routes throughout the Adirondack Park. Guides handle route planning, navigation, and safety, and each trip is tailored to the group’s goals and experience level.
- Half-Day Paddle: A 4- to 5-hour outing that serves as a relaxed introduction to canoeing or kayaking, well suited to families and first-time paddlers.
- Full-Day Paddle: A 6- to 8-hour trip with more time to explore, fish, and stop for a picnic.
- Overnight Canoe Trips: Single overnight excursions, two- and three-day wilderness loops, and extended multi-day routes, with guides selecting campsites along the way.
- Canoe Camping and Fishing Trips: Paddling into remote waters to target brook trout, bass, lake trout, or pike, then camping at shoreline sites.
The fleet includes Wenonah canoes, valued for their lightweight construction, stability, and load capacity on overnight trips. Lightweight packboats are available for solo paddlers and anglers heading to smaller ponds with longer portages. Stable recreational kayaks are also available for guests who prefer them.
For overnight trips, the team can help with gear lists, food planning, and canoe camping setup. Guests should bring weather-appropriate clothing, sunscreen, a hat, and a New York fishing license if they plan to fish.
Guided Hunting Trips
Hunting in the Adirondacks offers a traditional outdoor experience across the region’s forests and rugged terrain. Adirondack Mountain and Stream Guide Service provides guided trips throughout the hunting seasons, with experienced guides who bring local knowledge and Adirondack woodsmanship to each outing.
Guided hunts cover big game, upland birds, and small game. Options include:
- Whitetail Deer Hunting: Day hunts and multi-day backcountry trips focused on traditional Adirondack big-game hunting.
- Small Game Hunting: Guided snowshoe hare hunts, including hound-led outings.
- Grouse and Woodcock Hunting: Traditional upland bird hunts through Adirondack forests and coverts.
- Predator Hunting: Guided opportunities for coyote, fox, and bobcat.
Hunting opportunities vary throughout the year. Seasons the guides can assist with include:
- Deer Season: End of September through the second week of December
- Small Game Hunting: Mid-December through mid-March
- Ruffed Grouse Hunting: Late September through the end of February
- Varmint Hunting: December through the end of March
Winter Guided Outings in the Adirondacks
Adirondack Mountain and Stream Guide Service guides through the winter months too, with ice fishing, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, and hunting trips across the Adirondacks. Day and overnight trips are available for beginners and experienced winter adventurers alike.
Winter highlights include:
- Ice Fishing: Fully guided trips on the Fulton Chain, Long Lake, Tupper Lake, Schroon Lake, the Lake George region, and surrounding waters for lake trout, northern pike, walleye, yellow perch, rainbow trout, and bass.
- Snowshoeing and Cross-Country Skiing: Guided winter hikes for beginners and experienced winter hikers, with guides who know the Adirondack mountains and trails in the snowy season.
- Winter Hunting: Snowshoe hare hunts, including hound-led outings, and predator hunts for coyote, fox, and bobcat.
Call (518) 251-3762 to schedule a tour today!