This Small Upstate New York Town Is One of the East Coast’s Most Underrated Destinations for Stargazing

This Small Upstate New York Town Is One of the East Coast’s Most Underrated Destinations for Stargazing

Tupper Lake is tiny, but it might be the next big destination in the Adirondacks.Lauren Breedlove/Travel + Leisure A view of Tupper Lake under a starry sky.There’s something about being in the pitch-black of night that makes your mind work illogically. Amid a night paddle under a nearly full moon on the Raquette River, a mysterious shape moves through the water directly in front of my tandem kayak. My brain immediately thinks “alligator,” despit…