Lower Wolfjaw Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area

Name: Lower Wolfjaw Mountain
Address: High Peaks Wilderness Area, United States

#21 among attractions in High Peaks Wilderness Area

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Lower Wolfjaw Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area

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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. The mountain is the northeasternmost of the Adirondack High Peaks in the Great Range of the Adirondack Mountains. Lower Wolfjaw Mountain is flanked to the southwest by Upper Wolfjaw Mountain, and to the northeast by Hedgehog Mountain. ()

Elevation: 4173 ftProminence: 663 ftCoordinates: 44°8'53"N, 73°49'59"W

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High Peaks Wilderness Area United States

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Lower Wolfjaw Mountain – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Gothics, Ausable Club, Mount Colvin, Noonmark Mountain.

1.8 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Gothics, Keene
48 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.
2.6 miE
Hiking, Hiking trail
Ausable Club, Adirondack Park
67 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.
3.7 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Colvin, Adirondack Park
95 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 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Noonmark Mountain, Adirondack Park
84 min walk • Noonmark Mountain is a 3,556-foot mountain near St. Huberts in the High Peaks region of the Adirondacks in New York, United States.
3.2 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Basin Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
83 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 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Saddleback Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
66 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...
1.3 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Armstrong Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
32 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.
4.4 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Phelps Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
113 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.
0.8 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Upper Wolfjaw Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Area
21 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.
3.4 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Dial Mountain, Adirondack Park
87 min walk • Dial Mountain is a mountain located in Essex County, New York. The mountain is part of the Colvin Range. Dial Mountain is flanked to the southwest by Nippletop.
2.9 miNE
Bridge
Beer's Bridge, Adirondack Park
75 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.