Mount Emmons
Mount Emmons rises to 1,226 m in New York. Iroquois Peak stands 1,472 m to the east, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Donaldson Mountain, a peak 0.7 miles away. Adirondack Trail passes 9.8 miles off.
The story
Mount Emmons is a mountain in the Seward Range of the Adirondack Mountains in the U.S. state of New York. It is the 40th-highest of the Adirondack High Peaks, with an elevation of 4,040 feet (1,230 m). The mountain is located in the town of Harrietstown in Franklin County. It is named for New York state geologist Ebenezer Emmons, who gave the mountains the popular name "Adirondacks", named at least five individual mountains, and made ascents of four during a survey of the region between 1837 and 1842. During the 19th century, the name "Mount Emmons" was bestowed upon a different mountain, today known as "Blue Mountain". Russell M. L. Carson proposed the name "Mount Emmons" be given to an unnamed peak south of Mount Seward in his 1927 book Peaks and People of the Adirondacks. The earliest recorded ascent was likely made on October 14, 1870, by surveyor Verplanck Colvin and trail guide Alvah Dunning during a hike to Mount Seward. The summit of Emmons can be accessed on unmarked trails. The easiest access to the Seward Range is on the Ward Brook Truck Trail, which begins at a parking lot on Coreys Road south of the village of Saranac Lake. Between an intersection with a horse trail 4.7 miles (7.6 km) from the trailhead and the Ward Brook lean-to located 5.4 miles (8.7 km) from the trailhead, the trail crosses three brooks; the preferred route to Seward Mountain branches off from the trail at the first of these. An alternative route to the Seward Range follows the Calkins Brook Track Trail. This trail begins at the same parking lot and coincides with the Truck Trail for 1.2 miles (1.9 km) before diverging to the right. The unmarked trail to the Seward Range branches off the Calkins Brook Trail at 3.3 miles (5.3 km). Another unmarked trail connects the summits of Seward Mountain, Donaldson Mountain, and Mount Emmons (New York).
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What the record says
- Elevation
- 1226 m
How to reach it
- 9.8 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 7.4 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 11.7 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 14.3 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
Overlooks nearby
- Lake Placid Olympic Jumping Complex K-120 Meter Jump Observation Deck · 14 mi
- Cascade Mountain · 18 mi
- Snow Mountain Lookout · 21 mi
- Balfour Lake overlook · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Donaldson Mountain: 0.7 mi
- Seward Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Seymour Mountain: 2.3 mi
- 776: 3.7 mi
- Couchsachraga Peak: 4.2 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 6.8 mi
- Wallface: 8.8 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 16.7 mi
- Panorama Bluff: 17.3 mi
- Weeping Winds: 17.8 mi
- Millers Falls: 2.6 mi
- Lower Falls: 5.4 mi
- Raquette Falls: 5.5 mi
- Upper Falls: 5.7 mi
- Wanika Falls: 8.7 mi
- Baldwin Park: 12.8 mi
- Riverside Park: 13.2 mi
- Prescott Park: 13.2 mi
- Beaver Park: 13.2 mi
- Riverfront Park: 13.2 mi
- Airplane Wreckage: 10.6 mi
- Mckenzie Pond Bouldering Access (appx): 12.6 mi
- Newcomb Ski Slope: 12.8 mi
- Newcomb Ski Slope: 12.8 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 14.1 mi
- Plane Crash Site: 8.5 mi
- McIntyre Blast Furnace: 9.0 mi
- David Henderson Memorial: 10.9 mi
- Strategic Air Command Memorial: 11.6 mi
- Pendleton: 12.0 mi
- Ampersand Primitive Area: 5.5 mi
- Middle Saranac Lake Boat Launch: 7.4 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 8.5 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 12.9 mi
- Henry's Woods: 14.0 mi
- Exhibit Hall;The Wild Center: 12.3 mi
- Tupper Lake History Museum: 13.0 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 13.3 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 13.7 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 14.9 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 14.1 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 14.3 mi
- Peace Garden: 20.2 mi
- Goolds Garden: 20.6 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 15.0 mi
- Blue Mountain Lake Beach: 22.8 mi
- Tahawus: 10.3 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 20.7 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 21.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.9 miles of Mount Emmons. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iroquois Peak | E 92° | 1,472 m | 10.7 mi |
| Santanoni Peak | SE 136° | 1,401 m | 5.9 mi |
| Panther Peak | SE 128° | 1,358 m | 5.1 mi |
| Mount Marshall | E 96° | 1,333 m | 10.1 mi |
| Seward Mountain | NNE 33° | 1,319 m | 1.3 mi |
| Nye Mountain | ENE 72° | 1,271 m | 9.9 mi |
| Street Mountain | ENE 75° | 1,265 m | 9.6 mi |
| Donaldson Mountain | N 11° | 1,238 m | 0.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:31 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 20:00 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:18 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 15:34 | 16:22 |
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 | 14 | 15 | 24 | 38 | 50 | 59 | 64 | 62 | 55 | 44 | 33 | 21 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — RAY Brook, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357558429
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