My wife and I were returning from the mid-west and came back by way of Ontario and crossed back into the U.S. at Ogdensburg..... good place to cross. It was Friday afternoon right at 5p.m. and there was only 2 other cars at customs.... I could get used to that. I've also crossed at Niagra Falls too ... not so much fun. Ogdensburg is a little north of you I guess and  I assume Lowville gets plenty of lake effect snow.
  I went to college up in the Adirondacks... forestry. That was 40 years ago....  yep, pretty rural there.
            Cal