Porter Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area

Name: Porter Mountain
Address: High Peaks Wilderness Area, United States

#45 among attractions in High Peaks Wilderness Area

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Porter Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area

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Porter Mountain is one of the Adirondack High Peaks. It is number 38 in order of height, and one of the easier hikes of the Adirondack Forty-Sixers. It is named after Noah Porter, one of the first to climb it, later president of Yale University. ()

First ascent: 1875Elevation: 4068 ftProminence: 330 ftCoordinates: 44°12'55"N, 73°50'37"W

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High Peaks Wilderness Area United States

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Porter Mountain – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run, Cascade Mountain, Ausable Club, Mount Van Hoevenberg.

4 miW
Sport venue, Sport
Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run, Adirondack Park
103 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.
0.9 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Cascade Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
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5.4 miSE
Hiking, Hiking trail
Ausable Club, Adirondack Park
137 min walk • The Ausable Club, in St. Huberts, New York, is the name of a club and the clubhouse of the Adirondack Mountain Reserve, which upon the initiative of William George Neilson, formed in 1887 to save the lands around Beede's Hotel from the lumber industry. The Reserve once owned most of the Adirondack High Peaks.
4 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Van Hoevenberg, Adirondack Park
104 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.
4.7 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Lower Wolfjaw Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
119 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.
5.6 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Armstrong Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
143 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.
5.6 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Phelps Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
143 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.
5.2 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Upper Wolfjaw Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
132 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.
4.4 miSE
Bridge
Beer's Bridge, Adirondack Park
112 min walk • Beer's Bridge is a historic Pratt Pony truss bridge over the Ausable River at Keene Valley in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1900 by the Pratt, Tomas & Caleb Company. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
2.7 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Big Slide Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
68 min walk • Big Slide Mountain can refer to several...
2.3 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Pitchoff Mountain, Sentinel Range Wilderness Area
58 min walk • Pitchoff Mountain is a 3,600-foot mountain opposite Cascade Mountain on NY 73 west of Keene Valley in Essex County, New York, in the US.