Mount Adams
Mount Adams rises to 1,073 m in New York. Mount Marcy stands 1,629 m to the east-northeast, 5.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Popple Hill, a peak 0.8 miles away. Roosevelt-Marcy Trail passes 9.7 miles off.
The story
Mount Adams is a 3,520-foot-tall (1,070 m) mountain located in Essex County of New York. Atop the mountain is the Mount Adams Fire Observation Station, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
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Wikidata Q8519036, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1073 m
How to reach it
- 9.7 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 11.1 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 13.4 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 19.4 mi off the Adirondack Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Popple Hill: 0.8 mi
- Calamity Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Echo Mountain: 2.5 mi
- Sanford Hill: 2.6 mi
- Cliff Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 3.4 mi
- Wallface: 3.6 mi
- Panorama Bluff: 7.2 mi
- Fish Hawk Cliffs: 10.1 mi
- Lost Lookout: 10.5 mi
- Hanging Spear Falls: 2.0 mi
- MacIntyre Falls: 5.5 mi
- Rocky Falls: 6.0 mi
- Indian Falls: 6.0 mi
- Indian Falls: 6.0 mi
- Indian Head Trailhead: 13.5 mi
- Mid's Park: 14.2 mi
- Kiwanis Teddy Bear Park: 14.2 mi
- Brewster Park: 14.3 mi
- Baldwin Park: 16.5 mi
- Airplane Wreckage: 3.3 mi
- Cliffside Coaster: 10.4 mi
- Mountain Pass Lodge: 10.4 mi
- Lake Placid Bobsled Experience at Mt. Van Hoevenberg: 10.4 mi
- Newcomb Ski Slope: 11.5 mi
- McIntyre Blast Furnace: 1.6 mi
- David Henderson Memorial: 2.2 mi
- Strategic Air Command Memorial: 5.0 mi
- Mount Marcy First Ascent: 5.4 mi
- Plane Crash Site: 7.9 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 1.7 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 10.9 mi
- Johns Brook Primitive Area: 11.2 mi
- Henry's Woods: 12.3 mi
- Ampersand Primitive Area: 15.4 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 13.8 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 13.8 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 17.4 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 17.5 mi
- Exhibit Hall;The Wild Center: 22.4 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 18.7 mi
- Schroon Community Garden: 21.7 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 24.2 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 13.8 mi
- Park beach: 21.9 mi
- Whitewater rafting: 24.1 mi
- Rafting: 24.4 mi
- Tahawus: 2.8 mi
- High Peaks Welcome Center: 16.7 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 20.2 mi
- Footbridge Park: 23.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.2 miles of Mount Adams. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Marcy | ENE 71° | 1,629 m | 5.4 mi |
| Algonquin Peak | NNE 26° | 1,555 m | 4.4 mi |
| Schofield Cobble | ENE 72° | 1,515 m | 5.2 mi |
| Mount Haystack | ENE 78° | 1,498 m | 6.3 mi |
| Mount Skylight | E 80° | 1,495 m | 4.8 mi |
| Iroquois Peak | NNE 22° | 1,472 m | 3.7 mi |
| Boundary Peak | NNE 23° | 1,471 m | 4.0 mi |
| Basin Mountain | ENE 71° | 1,468 m | 7.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:30 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 19:59 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:17 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 15:34 | 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 | 17 | 25 | 39 | 52 | 61 | 65 | 63 | 56 | 44 | 33 | 22 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newcomb, 13 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357544169
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- Elizabethtown · 23 mi
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