Some places should be visited and not ruined and the Adirondaks is one of them. Seems like everyone who lives up north is in construction looking for a job from some developer who wants to rape the landscape. There are other professions.
A lot of people want to enjoy the wilderness. As long as someone else is paying for it...
Actual in northeastern New York there are none. I work with people who drive 2+ hours over to this side of the lake to work.