{"id":928,"date":"2022-11-05T14:22:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T18:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.seagrant.w3.uvm.edu\/2022\/11\/05\/new-walking-tour-app-highlights-mirror-lake-stormwater-management-features\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:49:10","slug":"new-walking-tour-app-highlights-mirror-lake-stormwater-management-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/2022\/11\/05\/new-walking-tour-app-highlights-mirror-lake-stormwater-management-features\/","title":{"rendered":"New Walking Tour App Highlights Mirror Lake Stormwater Management Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tFrom green roofs to brick sidewalks, you can follow a new app to tour green stormwater practices that manage water drainage on the landscape along Mirror Lake in the town of Lake Placid, New York. Learn what a watershed is, why pervious pavement helps rainwater to sink in, how landscape terracing can help collect water and reduce road salt in the lake, and more!<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCommunications Fellow Stephanie Tyski has been hard at work since she began her fellowship this past summer with the Adirondack Watershed Institute, located at Paul Smith\u2019s College. To educate and engage the public in ways communities can reduce stormwater impacts, Tyski created this <a href=\"https:\/\/pocketsights.com\/tours\/tour\/Lake-Placid-Mirror-Lake-Watershed-Walk-7199\">virtual, self-guided walk for Mirror Lake<\/a>. She made the tour available through a smartphone app called PocketSights, created by a small team in Ithaca, New York. The app is designed to follow your location to &#8220;lead&#8221; you on pre-built, self-guided walks.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTyski created the Mirror Lake walk with 14 stops along the southwestern portion of the lake starting at Brewster Park and ending near the Mirror Lake Public Beach. Each stop provides information about the Mirror Lake watershed\u2014all the land that drains into the lake\u2014and recent changes that Lake Placid has put in place to help manage stormwater drainage.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cNot everyone has time to attend a naturalist led program to learn about our watersheds and nature but most have a cellphone and a few extra minutes as they stroll down Main Street in Lake Placid,\u201d said Tyski. \u201cApps like PocketSights and tours developed with them make learning about the world around us more accessible and approachable for the general public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFind the <a href=\"https:\/\/pocketsights.com\/tours\/tour\/Lake-Placid-Mirror-Lake-Watershed-Walk-7199\">Lake Placid Mirror Lake Watershed Walk<\/a> on PocketSights. The app is available for both Android and iOS, but Apple users get a few more features such as the ability to take the walk anywhere through virtual mode.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\">Lake Champlain Sea Grant<\/a> partners with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adkwatershed.org\/\">Adirondack Watershed Institute<\/a> to support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/news\/science-fellow-joins-adirondack-watershed-institute-and-lake-champlain-sea-grant\">Tyski\u2019s two-year fellowship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLearn more from Lake Champlain Sea Grant about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/outreach\/green-infrastructure-stormwater\">ways to protect water quality by reducing stormwater in your community<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From green roofs to brick sidewalks, you can follow a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}