Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake
Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake is a museum in New York, at a modelled elevation of 632 m. Snowy Mountain stands 1,166 m to the south, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Blue Mountain Lake Beach, a beach 1.0 miles away. Adirondack Trail runs past it.
The story
Adirondack Experience (formerly Adirondack Museum), located on NY-30 in the hamlet of Blue Mountain Lake in Hamilton County, New York, is a museum dedicated to preserving the history of the Adirondacks. The museum is located on the site of an historic summer resort hotel, the Blue Mountain House, built high above Blue Mountain Lake in 1876 by Miles Tyler Merwin, that operated until the late 1940s. The museum consists of 23 buildings, 121 acres, and 60,000 square feet of exhibition space. The opening of a brand new 19,000 square foot exhibition, Life in the Adirondacks, took place July 2017. Adirondack Experience is open late-May to mid-October. The museum's collections include historic artifacts, photographs, indigenous arts, archival materials, and fine art documenting the region's past in twenty-four buildings including historic structures and contemporary galleries. The museum offers special events, traditional workshops, demonstrations by artisans-in-residence, and school field trips (free for schools in the Adirondack Park). The museum contains a research library which is accessible year-round; its publication program has produced 65 books of Adirondack history, art histories, and museum catalogs.
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Dates from 1957.
Wikidata Q12052743, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- On the Adirondack Trail
- 0.9 mi off the Central Adirondack Trail
- 6.9 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 24.5 mi off the Olympic Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Viewpoint to East · 13 mi
- view · 17 mi
- Rocky Mountain Overlook · 19 mi
- Balfour Lake overlook · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Blue Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Castle Rock: 1.8 mi
- Peaked Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Buck Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Little Blue Mountain: 2.5 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 4.0 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 13.0 mi
- Beaver Brook Waterfall: 13.0 mi
- OK Slip Falls: 16.8 mi
- Dug Mountain Brook Waterfall: 19.0 mi
- Long Lake Boat Tours: 7.3 mi
- Raquette Lake Navigation Co.: 11.7 mi
- Great Camp Sagamore Tours: 12.2 mi
- Newcomb Ski Slope: 14.2 mi
- Newcomb Ski Slope: 14.3 mi
- Wakely Mountain Primitive Area: 10.1 mi
- DEC Little Tupper Lake Headquarters: 14.3 mi
- DEC Little Tupper Lake Headquarters: 14.4 mi
- Dug Mountain Primitive Area: 18.2 mi
- Hudson Gorge Primitive Area: 18.2 mi
- Mt Sabattis Town Park: 6.7 mi
- Town of Long Lake Municipal Park: 7.0 mi
- Long Lake Town Beach: 7.3 mi
- Byron Park: 10.8 mi
- Fourth Lake Day Use Area: 24.6 mi
- Blue Mountain Lake Beach: 1.0 mi
- Silver Beach: 9.1 mi
- Long Beach: 13.5 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 13.5 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 4.0 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 14.2 mi
- Indian Lake Day Use Area: 16.3 mi
- Jessup River Day Use Area: 19.0 mi
- Sugar Shack Ruins: 11.5 mi
- Gate House Ruins: 12.2 mi
- Pendleton: 12.9 mi
- McIntyre Blast Furnace: 23.7 mi
- The Crags: 11.1 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 24.2 mi
- Moxham Point: 24.6 mi
- Rafting: 9.8 mi
- Whitewater rafting: 21.2 mi
- Iron Cross: 11.2 mi
- Rt 30 Alien: 16.4 mi
- Exhibit Hall;The Wild Center: 24.2 mi
- Tupper Lake History Museum: 24.6 mi
- Snowy Mountain Trail Parking: 12.6 mi
- Tahawus: 22.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.2 miles of Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snowy Mountain | S 169° | 1,166 m | 11.9 mi |
| Panther Mountain | SSE 167° | 1,146 m | 9.4 mi |
| Blue Mountain | E 83° | 1,143 m | 1.6 mi |
| Wakely Mountain | SSW 204° | 1,143 m | 10.1 mi |
| Buell Mountain | S 173° | 1,114 m | 10.7 mi |
| Dun Brook Mountain | ENE 75° | 1,086 m | 5.9 mi |
| Fishing Brook Mountain | ENE 57° | 1,082 m | 8.2 mi |
| Kempshall Mountain | NNE 26° | 1,021 m | 11.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:32 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 20:00 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:46 | 18:19 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 15:36 | 16:24 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 16 | 17 | 26 | 39 | 51 | 60 | 64 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 33 | 22 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Indian Lake 2SW, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/568952280
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