Mount Redfield
Mount Redfield rises to 1,403 m in New York. Mount Marcy stands 1,629 m to the northeast, 1.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Skylight, a peak 0.9 miles away. High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73) passes 8.9 miles off.
The story
Mount Redfield is a mountain in the Adirondacks in the U.S. state of New York. It is the 15th-highest peak in New York, with an elevation of 4,606 feet (1,404 m), and one of the 46 High Peaks in Adirondack Park. It is located in the town of Keene in Essex County, near Cliff Mountain and Mount Skylight. Surveyor Verplanck Colvin named the mountain after William C. Redfield, organizer and member of an expedition to Mount Marcy in 1837, and the first to guess that Marcy was the highest peak in the Adirondacks, and therefore in New York. The earliest recorded ascent was made in 1894 by mountain guide Ed Phelps and a guest whose name has not been recorded. There is no maintained trail on the mountain, but an unmarked trail begins at the Uphill Lean-to along the Calamity Brook Trail, and proceeds along Uphill Brook and a tributary stream to the summit.
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Wikidata Q6923164, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1403 m
How to reach it
- 8.9 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 11.7 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
- 12.7 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 22.3 mi off the Adirondack Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Snow Mountain Lookout · 9 mi
- Cascade Mountain · 10 mi
- Roaring Brook Falls Lower Lookout · 10 mi
- Roaring Brook Falls Upper Lookout · 10 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Skylight: 0.9 mi
- McDonnel Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Gray Peak: 1.3 mi
- Cliff Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Schofield Cobble: 1.5 mi
- Panorama Bluff: 4.1 mi
- Wallface: 5.3 mi
- Fish Hawk Cliffs: 6.3 mi
- Lost Lookout: 6.7 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 6.7 mi
- Hanging Spear Falls: 2.1 mi
- Indian Falls: 3.3 mi
- Indian Falls: 3.3 mi
- MacIntyre Falls: 4.7 mi
- Bushnell Falls: 4.8 mi
- Indian Head Trailhead: 9.7 mi
- Mid's Park: 13.6 mi
- Kiwanis Teddy Bear Park: 13.6 mi
- Brewster Park: 13.7 mi
- Frontier Town Campground, Equestrian and Day Use Area: 15.1 mi
- Mount Marcy First Ascent: 1.8 mi
- David Henderson Memorial: 2.7 mi
- Strategic Air Command Memorial: 4.2 mi
- McIntyre Blast Furnace: 5.4 mi
- Lower Ausable Lake Dam: 6.4 mi
- Airplane Wreckage: 3.6 mi
- Cliffside Coaster: 8.6 mi
- Mountain Pass Lodge: 8.6 mi
- Lake Placid Bobsled Experience at Mt. Van Hoevenberg: 8.6 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 11.0 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 5.4 mi
- Johns Brook Primitive Area: 7.9 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 10.5 mi
- Henry's Woods: 11.7 mi
- Boquet River Primitive Area: 14.2 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 13.2 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 13.2 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 18.3 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 18.4 mi
- Adirondack History Museum: 19.6 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 13.2 mi
- Park beach: 20.3 mi
- Port Henry Village Beach: 24.8 mi
- Bulwagga Bay Beach: 24.8 mi
- Footbridge Park: 19.3 mi
- Witherbee Park and Bandstand: 24.6 mi
- Bulwagga Bay Pavillion: 24.8 mi
- Powerhouse Park: 24.9 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 19.6 mi
- Schroon Community Garden: 20.2 mi
- Tahawus: 5.9 mi
- High Peaks Welcome Center: 13.4 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 18.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.2 miles of Mount Redfield. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Marcy | NE 46° | 1,629 m | 1.7 mi |
| Algonquin Peak | NNW 331° | 1,555 m | 3.8 mi |
| Schofield Cobble | NE 47° | 1,515 m | 1.5 mi |
| Mount Haystack | ENE 73° | 1,498 m | 2.5 mi |
| Mount Skylight | ENE 72° | 1,495 m | 0.9 mi |
| Iroquois Peak | NW 320° | 1,472 m | 3.8 mi |
| Boundary Peak | NW 324° | 1,471 m | 3.8 mi |
| Basin Mountain | ENE 60° | 1,468 m | 3.6 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 | 20:43 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:17 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 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, 15 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 962328 — Mount Redfield, Essex County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357581829
Day trips start here
- Elizabethtown · 19 mi
- Westport · 26 mi
- Crown Point · 27 mi
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