Since before I can remember we had been going to the same little mountain town in America’s largest State Park for an annual family vacation. Inlet, NY lay on the western edge of Fourth Lake of the Fulton Chain Lakes in the southwest portion of the Adirondacks; a 6-million-acre state park interspersed with small towns and bits of private land. The Adirondacks are also a paddling paradise. According to the Adirondack Council, “The Adirondack Park contains more than 3,000 lakes and 8,000 ponds, and more than 1,500 miles of rivers, fed by an estimated 30,000 miles of brooks and streams.”