Iroquois Peak
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Iroquois Peak rises to 1,472 m in New York. Mount Marcy stands 1,629 m to the east-southeast, 4.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Shepherd's Tooth, a peak 0.2 miles away. High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73) passes 7.6 miles off.
The story
Iroquois Peak is a mountain in the MacIntyre Range of the Adirondacks in the U.S. state of New York. It is the eighth-highest peak in New York, with an elevation of 4,840 feet (1,480 m), and one of the 46 High Peaks in Adirondack Park. It is located in the town of Newcomb in Essex County. Although the mountain does not have an officially maintained trail, a well-maintained herd path marked by cairns exists between the summits of Iroquois Peak and Algonquin Peak, 1.1 miles (1.8 km) to the northeast. The earliest recorded ascent of the mountain was made in October 1883 by William H. Brown, who erected a signal for the Colvin survey team on the summit. Verplanck Colvin likely made an unrecorded ascent prior to Brown. Colvin marked the peak with three different names on survey maps: South MacIntyre, after Archibald McIntyre and the nearby Mount MacIntyre (now Algonquin peak); Mount Clinton, for Governor DeWitt Clinton; and Mount Iroquois, based on the fact the mountain fell near the latitude of a supposed Algonquin and Iroquois boundary that divided hunting grounds in the Adirondacks. In reality, no such boundary extended into the mountains. The name of the mountain was still uncertain in the 1920s, when the Marshall brothers were compiling the list of Adirondack High Peaks and assigned the name "Iroquois" to nearby Mount Marshall instead. After discussions between the brothers and Russell Carson, the name "Iroquois" was then assigned to its present location.
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Wikidata Q6073461, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1472 m
How to reach it
- 7.6 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 9.8 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 13.4 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 18.8 mi off the Adirondack Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Shepherd's Tooth: 0.2 mi
- Boundary Peak: 0.3 mi
- Algonquin Peak: 0.7 mi
- Mount Marshall: 0.9 mi
- Wright Peak: 1.4 mi
- Wallface: 1.9 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 4.5 mi
- Panorama Bluff: 7.9 mi
- The Courthouse: 8.1 mi
- Lost Lookout: 8.7 mi
- Mid's Park: 10.6 mi
- Kiwanis Teddy Bear Park: 10.7 mi
- Brewster Park: 10.7 mi
- Indian Head Trailhead: 11.4 mi
- Baldwin Park: 13.8 mi
- MacIntyre Falls: 1.8 mi
- Rocky Falls: 2.4 mi
- Hanging Spear Falls: 2.4 mi
- Indian Falls: 3.4 mi
- Indian Falls: 3.4 mi
- Airplane Wreckage: 0.4 mi
- Cliffside Coaster: 6.7 mi
- Lake Placid Bobsled Experience at Mt. Van Hoevenberg: 6.8 mi
- Mountain Pass Lodge: 6.8 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 8.1 mi
- Strategic Air Command Memorial: 1.4 mi
- David Henderson Memorial: 1.7 mi
- Mount Marcy First Ascent: 4.0 mi
- McIntyre Blast Furnace: 4.9 mi
- Plane Crash Site: 5.3 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 4.3 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 7.4 mi
- Johns Brook Primitive Area: 8.5 mi
- Henry's Woods: 8.7 mi
- Bartlett Primitive Area: 15.1 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 10.2 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 10.2 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 14.7 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 14.8 mi
- Adirondack History Museum: 20.9 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 16.0 mi
- Schroon Community Garden: 23.9 mi
- Peace Garden: 24.1 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 24.2 mi
- Goolds Garden: 24.3 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 10.2 mi
- Park beach: 24.0 mi
- Tahawus: 6.5 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 16.5 mi
- High Peaks Welcome Center: 16.8 mi
- Footbridge Park: 20.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.3 miles of Iroquois Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Marcy | ESE 114° | 1,629 m | 4.0 mi |
| Algonquin Peak | NE 50° | 1,555 m | 0.7 mi |
| Schofield Cobble | ESE 117° | 1,515 m | 4.0 mi |
| Mount Haystack | ESE 114° | 1,498 m | 5.3 mi |
| Mount Skylight | SE 128° | 1,495 m | 4.2 mi |
| Boundary Peak | NE 45° | 1,471 m | 0.3 mi |
| Basin Mountain | E 101° | 1,468 m | 5.6 mi |
| Gray Peak | ESE 120° | 1,463 m | 3.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:30 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:13 | 19:59 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:17 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 15:33 | 16:21 |
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 | 15 | 18 | 26 | 39 | 51 | 60 | 64 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 32 | 21 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lake Placid 2 S, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357598540
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- Elizabethtown · 20 mi
- Westport · 28 mi
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