Baker Mountain, McKenzie Mountain Wilderness Area
#1 among attractions in McKenzie Mountain Wilderness Area
Facts and practical information
Baker Mountain is a 2,454-foot-tall mountain in Essex County, New York east of Saranac Lake. It is part of the McKenzie Mountain Wilderness Area. The trail to the top is about 0.9-miles long; the hike is part of the "Saranac Sixer". Moody Pond lies at its foot. ()
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Baker Mountain – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake, Stevenson Cottage, E. L. Gray House, Lane Cottage.
- 1.1 miNWNeighbourhood
Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake, Saranac Lake
27 min walk • Between 1873 and 1945, Saranac Lake, New York, became a world-renowned center for the treatment of tuberculosis, using a treatment that involved exposing patients to as much fresh air as possible under conditions of complete bed-rest.
- 0.9 miNWMuseum, History museum
Stevenson Cottage, Adirondack Park
22 min walk • Stevenson Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of St. Armand in Essex County, New York. It was built between 1865 and 1866 and is a 1+1⁄2-story, L-shaped wood-frame building on a fieldstone foundation with wood-frame siding. Built as a residence, it was later adapted for use as a cure cottage.
- 1.4 miSWShingle style architecture
E. L. Gray House, Saranac Lake
35 min walk • E. L. Gray House is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1911–1913 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, rectangular frame structure with a concrete block foundation and steeply pitched, multi-planed roof in the Shingle style.
- 1 miWShingle style architecture
Lane Cottage, Saranac Lake
27 min walk • Lane Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1923 and is an "L" shaped frame structure clad in cedar shingles with a jerkinhead gable roof in the Shingle Style.
- 1 miWTudor Revival architecture
Peyton Clark Cottage, Saranac Lake
26 min walk • Peyton Clark Cottage, also known as "Woodthorpe," is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of St. Armand in Essex County, New York.
- 1.2 miSWInteresting neighbourhood
Lent Cottage, Saranac Lake
31 min walk • Lent Cottage is a historic apartment house built as a cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York.
- 1.2 miSWNeighbourhood
Hill Cottage, Saranac Lake
32 min walk • Hill Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of Harrietstown in Essex and Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1913 and is a two to four story, shingled frame house on a stone foundation, with a jerkinhead gable roof and built into the side of a hill.
- 1.3 miSWNeighbourhood
Fallon Cottage Annex, Saranac Lake
33 min walk • Fallon Cottage Annex is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1901 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, shingled frame house on a coursed fieldstone foundation.
- 1.3 miSWNeighbourhood
Kennedy Cottage, Saranac Lake
33 min walk • Kennedy Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1897 and is a large, 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame rectangular structure in the Queen Anne style.
- 1.3 miSWNeighbourhood
Bogie Cottage, Saranac Lake
34 min walk • Bogie Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1908 and is a large, 2+1⁄2-story structure on a granite and fieldstone foundation in the American Craftsman style.
- 1.3 miSWNeighbourhood
Coulter Cottage, Saranac Lake
34 min walk • Coulter Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built between 1897 and 1899 and is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure on a stone foundation and topped by a gambrel roof in the Shingle Style.