Saint Regis Mountain
Saint Regis Mountain rises to 865 m in New York. Ampersand Mountain stands 1,022 m to the south-southeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Saint Regis Mountain Fire Tower Historic Area, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away. Adirondack Trail passes 3.3 miles off.
The story
Saint Regis Mountain is a 2,838-foot-tall (865 m) mountain in the town of Santa Clara, New York, in Franklin County at the center of the Saint Regis Canoe Area in the Adirondack Park. It can be climbed from a trailhead on Keese Mills Road in Keese Mill, west of Paul Smiths. The trail is a gradual 3.3 mile ascent with a gain of 1168 feet. The view from the summit includes thirty lakes, including the Upper and Lower Saranac Lake, and Upper and Lower Saint Regis Lake. The Adirondack High Peaks can also be seen. The summit is bare rock, having been cleared by a fire started accidentally by a surveying party led by Verplanck Colvin in 1876. The St. Regis Mountain Fire Observation Station is at the summit was restored in 2016 and is now open to the public.
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Wikidata Q7402132, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 865 m
How to reach it
- 3.3 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 10.7 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 19.4 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 29.2 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Sugar Hill: 2.3 mi
- Bay Pond Hill: 2.5 mi
- Jenkins Mountain: 3.4 mi
- Long Pond Mountain: 4.3 mi
- East Pond Mountain: 4.6 mi
- The Great Lawn: 4.2 mi
- Brighton Memorial Park: 7.5 mi
- Town of Harrietstown Bike Park: 10.4 mi
- Ampersand Park: 10.8 mi
- Sunset Park Arboretum: 11.0 mi
- Augerhole Falls: 10.8 mi
- High Falls: 15.0 mi
- Lower Falls: 18.1 mi
- Raquette Falls: 18.2 mi
- Upper Falls: 18.5 mi
- Saint Regis Mountain Fire Tower Historic Area: 0.0 mi
- Mckenzie Pond Bouldering Access (appx): 13.6 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 20.7 mi
- Sky Flyer Zipline: 20.9 mi
- Skyride: 20.9 mi
- Kate Smith Memorial: 19.1 mi
- World War Memorial: 19.1 mi
- Plane Crash Site: 19.7 mi
- Historic Marker for Timbuctoo: 19.8 mi
- 1980 Winter Olympic cauldron: 20.7 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 11.4 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 11.5 mi
- Six Nations Indian Museum: 12.6 mi
- Tupper Lake History Museum: 14.0 mi
- Exhibit Hall;The Wild Center: 14.1 mi
- Middle Saranac Lake Boat Launch: 11.8 mi
- Ampersand Primitive Area: 14.5 mi
- Deer River Primitive Area: 18.2 mi
- Henry's Woods: 19.7 mi
- Franklin Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 19.9 mi
- Stacy Bluff: 14.0 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 19.1 mi
- Moss Cliff: 20.9 mi
- Wallface: 23.6 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 23.8 mi
- Peace Garden: 4.2 mi
- Goolds Garden: 4.8 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 10.3 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 13.8 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 19.2 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 21.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.2 miles of Saint Regis Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ampersand Mountain | SSE 152° | 1,022 m | 13.6 mi |
| Loon Lake Mountain | NE 40° | 1,014 m | 13.6 mi |
| Stony Creek Mountain | SSE 166° | 910 m | 13.3 mi |
| Black Peak | NNE 19° | 823 m | 14.1 mi |
| Rice Mountain | N 353° | 768 m | 7.2 mi |
| Boot Bay Mountain | SSE 153° | 762 m | 8.6 mi |
| Jenkins Mountain | NNE 23° | 755 m | 3.4 mi |
| Iron Mountain | SW 232° | 754 m | 9.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:31 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 20:01 | 20:46 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:18 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:31 | 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 | 14 | 15 | 24 | 38 | 51 | 59 | 64 | 62 | 54 | 43 | 32 | 21 |
| Precip in | 1.9 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 2.8 | 2.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Saranac LK Adirondack Rgnl AP, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 964192 — Saint Regis Mountain, Franklin County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357587242
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