Community Day | Great Camp Sagamore | June 8, 2025
- Great Camp Sagamore 1105 Sagamore Road Raquette Lake, NY, 13436 United States (map)
Great Camp Sagamore’s 2025 Community Day
Enjoy free tours at the historic site.
The Chalet at Great Camp Sagamore.
Great Camp Sagamore in Raquette Lake is excited to invite the community to its first tours of the season. Attendees can enjoy self-guided tours of the property, with interpreters available throughout the camp to provide information, answer questions, and guide visitors.
In addition, a buffet brunch will be served in Sagamore’s historic lakeside Dining Hall from 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM. The cost for brunch is $29.95 per person.
For more information and to register for the event, as well as to make a brunch reservation, please visit Great Camp Sagamore’s website.
About Great Camp Sagamore.
Camp Sagamore had it’s own private lake.
Many historians consider Camp Sagamore to be the ultimate Adirondack Great Camp.
In the Gilded Age, Adirondack camps were all the rage. The Adirondacks' pristine lakes, streams, and pure mountain air attracted captains of industry, shipping and railroad magnates, and titans of banking and finance, who purchased vast tracts of wilderness to create private summer retreats, escaping from the hot, dirty, crowded cities they were arguably responsible for creating.
William West Durant, often credited as the Godfather of the Great Camp, built Sagamore from 1895 to 1897.
Alfred Vanderbilt, a railroad tycoon, real estate developer, and sportsman, purchased Sagamore in 1901 as a private retreat for recreation and entertainment.
He immediately began expanding and improving the already splendid facilities to suit his vision better. The camp remained in the hands of the Vanderbilt family until the 1950s.
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