Sometimes the sound of running water is the only hint that an elusive swimming hole is nearby.
New York has an untold number of them, tucked under bridges, beneath highways, along hidden forest paths and in rivers, gorges, waterfalls and chasms.
The Adirondacks are dotted with them, throughout the otherwise mountainous and rural landscape. If a car is pulled off into the forest along an unmarked road, a swimming hole is bound to be just through the trees.
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Mary Pikul, 48, spent the early afternoon in a shallow area of the Ausable River with her 5-year-old twins, Elle and Emmie, and their friend Luke Danks, 6, while her older daughter and her friend swam nearby.
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Brynn Decarlo, 11, during a break from jumping off rocks at Flume Falls in Wilmington, N.Y.
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Swimmers used a rope to climb down the nearly vertical slope.
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Stephanie Botelho, 38, swam with her sons Jack, 12, and Tino, 10, along a rocky area at Griffin Gorge and Waterfall in Wells, N.Y.
Along the Ausable River, behind the town hall in Keene, N.Y., Mary Pikul, 48, spent the morning splashing around with her twins, Emmie and Elle, 5; their older sister, Ever, 8; and two of their friends.
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