"Moonlight Trips to Summit of Whiteface New Diversion"

July 2, 1936—Moonlight motor trips up the new Whiteface mountain memorial highway promise to be one of the popular summer diversions at this resort. The more adventurous will drive up late and stay on the summit to see the sun rise over Lake Champlain and the northern Adirondack peaks.

Motorists are to be permitted to go up the highway 24 hours a day when weather conditions are favorable. "Gorgeous" is the only word to describe the scene from the peak in the moonlight, with the towering mountains silhouetted against the moon-brightened sky and the lights from passing cars nearly 3,000 feet below glowing like fireflies in the half-darkness. 

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Aurora Ramsay works in the Brewster Research Library at the Adirondack History Center Museum in Elizabethtown.

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