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The Adirondack Mountains (/ ˌædɪˈrɒndæk / AD-i-RON-dak) [ 1 ] are a massif of mountains in Northeastern New York which form a circular dome approximately 160 miles (260 km) wide and covering about 5,000 square miles (13,000 km 2). [ 2 ] The region contains more than 100 peaks, including Mount Marcy, which is the highest point in New York ...
The Adirondack Park is a park in northeastern New York protecting the Adirondack Mountains. The park was established in 1892 for "the free use of all the people for their health and pleasure", and for watershed protection. [2] At 6.1 million acres (2.5 × 106 ha), it is the largest park in the contiguous United States. [3] Notable among parks in the United States, about 52 percent of the land ...
The Adirondack High Peaks are a set of 46 mountain peaks in the Adirondack Mountains of New York state. They have been popular hiking destinations since the late 1920s, when the list of peaks was published in Russell Carson's book Peaks and Peoples of the Adirondacks. [1] Those who have climbed all 46 High Peaks are eligible to join the ...
Mount Marcy is the highest point in New York, [10] the highest peak in the Adirondack Mountains, and the highest of the Adirondack High Peaks, [11] with an elevation of 5,343.1 feet (1,628.6 m). [1] The mountain is located in the High Peaks Wilderness Area, [12] in the town of Keene in Essex County.
Great Range. The Great Range, as seen from Big Slide: Lower Wolfjaw, Upper Wolfjaw, Armstrong, and Gothics. The Great Range is a mountain range in the Adirondack Mountains, near Keene Valley, New York, United States. It rises in the heart of the High Peaks region between Ausable Lakes to the southeast and the Johns Brook Valley to the northwest.
Whiteface Mountain is the fifth-highest mountain in the U.S. state of New York, and one of the High Peaks of the Adirondack Mountains, located in the town of Wilmington in Essex County. Set apart from most of the other High Peaks, the summit offers a 360-degree view of the Adirondacks and clear-day glimpses of Vermont and Canada, where Montreal ...
Lake George, 1862, painted by Martin Johnson Heade. Lake George, c.1860, painted by John Frederick Kensett. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza [ 1 ] Lake George, nicknamed the Queen of American Lakes, [ 2 ] is a long, narrow oligotrophic lake located at the southeast base of the Adirondack Mountains, in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York.
Rocky Peak Ridge is the twentieth highest peak in the High Peaks Region of the Adirondack Park of New York, United States. The name of the mountain is due to its geology, a rocky ridge to the east of the better known Giant Mountain. The long, bare ridge is unusual in the Adirondacks; it resulted from the last great forest fire in the region, in ...