DANNEMORA, N.Y. — The search for two escaped maximum-security prisoners across a swath of far northern New York State has covered modest, rural terrain. Plodding through marshy meadows and tramping through abandoned houses, the roughly 800 searchers are making their way through an area where small villages interrupt a vast forest and the economy depends on prisons like the Clinton Correctional Facility.

But here and there in the semiwilderness of the North Country region are tucked pockets of a different landscape: the summer sleepaway camps, lodges and campgrounds that draw warm-weather tourists from across the country to tranquil lakes and idyllic Adirondack retreats — no more than a few hours’ drive from the high gray walls of the prison here.

Nearly two weeks into a manhunt that has knocked Dannemora and its environs off center, however, the summer havens are still a world apart.

At ADK WildHorse Camp, a horseback riding sleepaway camp for girls in Lake Clear, about 40 miles from Dannemora, parents and campers “don’t even realize that Dannemora is so close in the first place,” said Natalia DeValinger, a staff member at the camp.