Vintage Seneca Ray Stoddard photo "circa 1880s"  Stoddard. The view is Root's Hotel. For some reason this little hotel is not mentioned very much in Adirondack lore although it was an important stop for all those entering the Adirondacks from Mineville and Port Henry as they treked into the Elk Lake, Tahawus, Newcomb and Long Lake area. The hotel was located about a mile north of the Adirondack Northway exit, Blue Ridge Road along current Route 9n near the Schroon River (9 miles North of Schroon Lake Village, 27 miles east of Newcomb, 23 miles south of Elizabethtown and 17 miles west of Port Henry)