Mount Adams, High Peaks Wilderness Area

Name: Mount Adams
Address: High Peaks Wilderness Area, United States

#43 among attractions in High Peaks Wilderness Area

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Mount Adams is a 3,520-foot-tall mountain located in Essex County of New York. Atop the mountain is the Mount Adams Fire Observation Station, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. ()

Elevation: 3520 ftCoordinates: 44°4'56"N, 74°1'56"W

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High Peaks Wilderness Area United States

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Mount Adams – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Avalanche Lake, Lake Colden, Algonquin Peak, Mount Colden.

4.8 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Avalanche Lake, High Peaks Wilderness Area
122 min walk • Avalanche Lake is a 9-acre mountain lake located in the Adirondack High Peaks in New York. Avalanche Lake sits at 2885 feet between 4,714-foot Mount Colden and-3816 foot Avalanche Mountain.
3.8 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Lake Colden, High Peaks Wilderness Area
98 min walk • Lake Colden is a 41-acre lake located in the Adirondack High Peaks in New York, United States. Lake Colden sits at 2764 feet at the western base of 4,714-foot Mount Colden.
4.8 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Algonquin Peak, High Peaks Wilderness Area
123 min walk • Algonquin Peak is in the MacIntyre Range in the town of North Elba, in Essex County, New York. It is the second highest mountain in New York, and one of the 46 Adirondack High Peaks in Adirondack Park.
4.7 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Colden, High Peaks Wilderness Area
120 min walk • Mount Colden is the eleventh-highest peak in the High Peaks of the Adirondack Mountains, New York, United States. The peak was named after David S. Colden, an investor in the McIntyre Iron Works, in 1836. The peak was briefly renamed "Mount McMartin" the next year, but the older name persisted.
5.1 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Lake Tear of the Clouds, High Peaks Wilderness Area
130 min walk • Lake Tear of the Clouds is a small tarn located in the town of Keene, in Essex County, New York, United States, on the southwest slope of Mount Marcy, the state's highest point, in the Adirondack Mountains.
4.1 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Iroquois Peak, High Peaks Wilderness Area
106 min walk • Iroquois Peak is the eighth-highest peak in the Adirondack Mountains in New York State, U.S. and is part of the MacIntyre Range, which also includes Wright Peak, Mount Marshall, and Algonquin Peak.
4.9 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Santanoni Peak, High Peaks Wilderness Area
125 min walk • Santanoni Peak is a mountain located in Essex County, New York. The mountain is part of the Santanoni Mountains of the Adirondacks.
3.9 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Wallface Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
99 min walk • Wallface Mountain is a mountain located in Essex County, New York. The mountain is named after the cliff on its southeastern side. Wallface is flanked to the west by MacNaughton Mountain, and faces Mount Marshall to the southeast across Indian Pass.
5.1 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Panther Peak, High Peaks Wilderness Area
130 min walk • Panther Peak is a mountain located in Essex County, New York. The mountain is part of the Santanoni Mountains of the Adirondacks. Panther Peak is flanked to the west by Couchsachraga Peak, and to the south by Santanoni Peak.
4.7 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Allen Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
119 min walk • Allen Mountain is located in Essex County, New York. It is part of the Marcy Group of the Great Range of the Adirondack Mountains, and is flanked to the north by Mount Skylight.
1.8 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Henderson Lake, High Peaks Wilderness Area
47 min walk • Henderson Lake is a lake in the Adirondack mountains in the town of Newcomb, Essex County, New York in the United States. It was named in 1826 after David Henderson, one of the founders of the Elba Iron Works near Lake Placid, New York, and of the Upper Works at Tahawus, New York.