Saddleback Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area

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

#19 among attractions in High Peaks Wilderness Area

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Saddleback Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area

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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 flanked to the southwest by Basin Mountain, and to the east by Gothics. ()

Elevation: 4528 ftProminence: 377 ftCoordinates: 44°7'35"N, 73°52'30"W

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High Peaks Wilderness Area United States

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

Nearby attractions include: Mount Marcy, Adirondack High Peaks, Gothics, Lake Tear of the Clouds.

2.6 miW
Natural attraction, Mountain, Park
Mount Marcy, High Peaks Wilderness Area
66 min walk • Mount Marcy is the highest point in New York, with an elevation of 5,344 feet. It is located in the Town of Keene in Essex County. The mountain is in the heart of the Adirondack High Peaks region of the High Peaks Wilderness Area.
2.6 miW
Mountain
Adirondack High Peaks, High Peaks Wilderness Area
66 min walk • The Adirondack High Peaks are a set of 46 mountain peaks in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, United States.
0.9 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Gothics, Keene
23 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.
3.3 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Lake Tear of the Clouds, High Peaks Wilderness Area
84 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.
1.9 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Haystack, High Peaks Wilderness Area
49 min walk • Mount Haystack is a mountain in the Great Range of the Adirondack High Peaks in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. It is the third highest peak in the state, after Algonquin Peak and Mount Marcy.
3 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Colvin, Adirondack Park
77 min walk • Mount Colvin is the 39th highest peak in the High Peaks Region of the Adirondack Mountains in the U.S. State of New York. Mount Colvin offers excellent views of a number of other Adirondack High Peaks, most notably the peaks that comprise the Great Range.
3.3 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Skylight, High Peaks Wilderness Area
86 min walk • Mount Skylight is a mountain in the Adirondack High Peaks in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. It gets its name from its open, bare and relatively flat summit, unusual in the Adirondack High Peaks. Skylight is the fourth highest peak in New York.
0.7 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Basin Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
18 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.
2.6 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Lower Wolfjaw Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
66 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.
3.2 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Gray Peak, High Peaks Wilderness Area
82 min walk • Gray Peak is the seventh-highest peak in the High Peaks Region of the Adirondack Park, in New York, United States, and is located in close proximity to Mount Marcy, the highest peak in New York state. Gray Peak is southwest of Mt. Marcy and southeast of Mount Colden. It was named for Asa Gray by Verplanck Colvin.
1.4 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Armstrong Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
35 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.