Big Slide Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area

Name: Big Slide Mountain
Address: High Peaks Wilderness Area, United States

#38 among attractions in High Peaks Wilderness Area

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Big Slide Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area

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Big Slide Mountain is a mountain in the High Peaks Region of the Adirondack Park in New York. The mountain is the twenty-seventh highest peak in the High Peaks Region. The peak was named for the prominent steep cliff that rises to its summit. It is located in the High Peaks Wilderness Area. ()

Prominence: 1049 ftCoordinates: 44°10'56"N, 73°52'13"W

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High Peaks Wilderness Area United States

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Big Slide Mountain – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run, Cascade Mountain, Gothics, Basin Mountain.

3.6 miNW
Sport venue, Sport
Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run, Adirondack Park
92 min walk • The Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run is a venue for bobsleigh, luge and skeleton in the United States, located at the Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex in Lake Placid, New York.
2.6 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Cascade Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
66 min walk • Cascade Mountain is in Essex County of New York. It is one of the 46 Adirondack High Peaks and is located in the Adirondack Park. Its name comes from a series of waterfalls on a brook near the mountain's base. The lake it flows into and the pass between Cascade and Pitchoff mountains are also named Cascade.
3.8 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Gothics, Keene
98 min walk • Gothics is a mountain in the High Peaks Region of the Adirondack Mountains. The mountain gets its name due to its large rock slides' resemblance to Gothic architecture.
4.3 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Basin Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
110 min walk • Basin Mountain is the ninth-highest peak of the High Peaks Region in the Adirondack Park in the U.S. State of New York. The peak was named by Verplanck Colvin for several basins formed between knobs on its slopes.
3.9 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Saddleback Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
99 min walk • Saddleback Mountain is a mountain located in Essex County, New York. The mountain is part of the Great Range of the Adirondack Mountains. The 0.2 mi long summit ridge has peaks at each end with a pronounced dip between, giving it the profile of a saddle. Saddleback Mtn. is...
3.5 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Van Hoevenberg, Adirondack Park
90 min walk • Mount Van Hoevenberg is a summit point located in the Adirondack Mountains in the Town of North Elba, Essex County, New York, 9 miles east-southeast of the village of Lake Placid.
3 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Lower Wolfjaw Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
77 min walk • Lower Wolfjaw Mountain is located in Essex County, New York. Landscape artist Alexander Helwig Wyant named Lower Wolfjaw, together with neighboring Upper Wolfjaw Mountain, about 1870 for their appearance in profile.
3.5 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Armstrong Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
89 min walk • Armstrong Mountain is a mountain located in Essex County, New York, named after Thomas Armstrong, a local pioneer. The mountain is part of the Great Range of the Adirondack Mountains.
3.1 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Phelps Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
79 min walk • Phelps Mountain is a mountain located in Essex County, New York. The mountain is named after Orson Schofield "Old Mountain" Phelps, who cut the first trail up Mount Marcy and named several of the Adirondack peaks. It is the 32nd highest peak in New York.
3.1 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Upper Wolfjaw Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
81 min walk • Upper Wolfjaw Mountain is a mountain located in Essex County, New York. Landscape artist Alexander Helwig Wyant named the mountain, in combination with neighboring Lower Wolfjaw Mountain, c. 1870 for their appearance in profile.
~140 ftW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Big Slide Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
1 min walk • Big Slide Mountain can refer to several...