Seymour Mountain
Seymour Mountain rises to 1,236 m in New York. Algonquin Peak stands 1,555 m to the east, 9.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Seward Mountain, a peak 1.3 miles away. Adirondack Trail passes 11 miles off.
The story
Seymour Mountain is a mountain in the Seward Range of the Adirondacks in the U.S. state of New York. It is the 34th-highest of the Adirondack High Peaks, with an elevation of 4,120 feet (1,260 m). The mountain is located in the town of Harrietstown in Franklin County, directly east of Seward Mountain. Surveyor Verplanck Colvin assigned the name "Ragged Mountain" to the peak in 1873, but it was later renamed for New York governor Horatio Seymour. The earliest recorded ascent was made on October 1, 1872, by Colvin and trail guides Dave Hunter and Hank Parker. The summit of Seymour 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. This trail passes the Ward Brook lean-to after 5.4 miles (8.7 km). An unmarked trail to the summit of Seymour branches off from the Truck Trail at a brook approximately 0.1 miles (0.16 km) past the lean-to. This path runs parallel to an old slide track and becomes very steep before leveling out for the remainder of the distance to the peak.
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Wikidata Q8525969, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1236 m
How to reach it
- 10.6 mi off the Adirondack Trail
- 7.0 mi off the Olympic Trail
- 12.0 mi off the High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73)
- 12.8 mi off the Roosevelt-Marcy Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Seward Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Donaldson Mountain: 1.9 mi
- 776: 2.0 mi
- Mount Emmons: 2.3 mi
- Sawtooth #5: 2.3 mi
- Henderson Cliff: 5.4 mi
- Wallface: 6.9 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 14.6 mi
- Weeping Winds: 15.5 mi
- Panorama Bluff: 15.8 mi
- Millers Falls: 4.0 mi
- Wanika Falls: 6.4 mi
- Lower Falls: 7.5 mi
- Raquette Falls: 7.6 mi
- Upper Falls: 7.9 mi
- Baldwin Park: 11.2 mi
- Prescott Park: 11.7 mi
- Riverside Park: 11.7 mi
- Riverfront Park: 11.7 mi
- World War I Park: 11.7 mi
- Airplane Wreckage: 8.7 mi
- Mckenzie Pond Bouldering Access (appx): 10.9 mi
- John Brown Farm State Historic Site: 11.9 mi
- Sky Flyer Zipline: 12.2 mi
- Skyride: 12.4 mi
- Plane Crash Site: 6.3 mi
- McIntyre Blast Furnace: 7.9 mi
- David Henderson Memorial: 9.2 mi
- Strategic Air Command Memorial: 9.5 mi
- John Brown Memorial Statue: 11.9 mi
- Ampersand Primitive Area: 6.7 mi
- Tahawas Primitive Area: 7.3 mi
- Middle Saranac Lake Boat Launch: 7.6 mi
- Heaven Hill Trails: 10.6 mi
- Henry's Woods: 11.7 mi
- Historic Saranac Lake / Laboratory Museum: 11.9 mi
- Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage: 12.2 mi
- Lake Placid Hall of Fame: 12.8 mi
- Lake Placid Olympic Museum: 12.8 mi
- Exhibit Hall;The Wild Center: 13.9 mi
- Common Ground Garden: 13.0 mi
- Town of Tupper Lake Community Garden: 15.6 mi
- Peace Garden: 19.5 mi
- Goolds Garden: 19.9 mi
- Lake Placid Public Beach: 12.9 mi
- Blue Mountain Lake Beach: 24.7 mi
- Tahawus: 9.5 mi
- Big Wooden Bear (8'): 19.8 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 22.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.4 miles of Seymour Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algonquin Peak | E 96° | 1,555 m | 9.3 mi |
| Iroquois Peak | E 99° | 1,472 m | 8.8 mi |
| Boundary Peak | E 98° | 1,471 m | 8.9 mi |
| Santanoni Peak | SSE 158° | 1,401 m | 5.6 mi |
| Wright Peak | E 92° | 1,389 m | 9.6 mi |
| Panther Peak | SSE 154° | 1,358 m | 4.6 mi |
| Mount Marshall | ESE 105° | 1,333 m | 8.3 mi |
| Seward Mountain | W 276° | 1,319 m | 1.3 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 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 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, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357589061
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- Elizabethtown · 29 mi
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