{"id":2255,"date":"2010-06-21T14:08:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T18:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2010-06-21T14:08:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T18:08:32","slug":"saranac-lake-makes-top-200-sportsmen-list-for-best-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/06\/21\/saranac-lake-makes-top-200-sportsmen-list-for-best-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"Saranac Lake makes Top-200 Sportsmen list for best towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outdoor Life magazine &#8212; one of the top journals for hunters and fishers in the US\u00a0 &#8212; has ranked Saranac Lake at 140 on its Top-200 list of best towns in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking includes measures of fishable and huntable species, and the proximity to publicly-open land and water.\u00a0 On all counts, Saranac Lake <a href=\"http:\/\/fsolmedia.com\/OL\/BestTownsComplete.html\">ranks high<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very positive, although there\u2019s no real way to calculate exactly what the economic impact of being on a list like this is,\u201d Saranac Lake chamber of commerce director Sylvie Nelson told WNBZ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the thing is, it shows Saranac Lake in a very positive light, it also targets the people that Saranac Lake is a good fit for. We\u2019ll probably see an influx of people specifically related to this list.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is some legitimate grumbling on them magazine&#8217;s readers that Burlington VT made the grade, but Plattsburgh NY didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that Plattsburg, NY should be the bass capital  for Lake Champlain rather than Burlington, Vt,&#8221; wrote Mechant 55.\u00a0 &#8220;Plattsburg sits on the  west shore of Lake Champlain, has all the attributes of the lake as  described, and it hosts more tournaments than its sister across the  lake.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outdoor Life magazine &#8212; one of the top journals for hunters and fishers in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}