Ha-De-Ron-Dah Wilderness Area

Ha-De-Ron-Dah Wilderness Area is a protected tract in Adirondack Park and New York’s Forest Preserve, spanning parts of the towns of Webb and Greig. Its name is a phonetic rendering of Adirondack from an Iroquois, specifically Mohawk, term often translated as “bark-eater,” once used derogatorily for local Algonquin people. The landscape includes low rolling hills, beaver meadows, swamps, and forests shaped in part by fires and logging. The southern half remains more altered, while the northern half includes mixed woods and surviving white pines from the last logging era. Limited access and surrounding private lands help preserve its wetland scenery, recovering forest, and seclusion.

Thendara, New York · United States