Kamp Kill Kare is often acknowledged as the best, architecturally, of all the Great Camps of the Adirondacks. William West Durant built a starter cabin there, on Lake Kora, and its subsequent owner, Timothy L. Woodruff, a lieutenant governor of New York, built a bigger camp in 1898, that was further expanded by noted architect John Russell Pope. Now with numerous buildings, it is located at the end of a private dirt road, and is still the only property on the lake. Though located in the state’s Historic Great Camps Special Management Area, along with Sagamore and Uncas, Kamp Kill Kare remains in private hands (owned since 2005 by Mark and Jacqui Palmer, who also own a luxury resort in their native New Zealand) and is open to the public by exclusive reservation only, for around $22,000 a night, with a three night minimum stay.