Porter Mountain
Porter Mountain is one of the Adirondack High Peaks. It is number 38 in order of height, and one of the easier hikes of the Adirondack Forty-Sixers. It is named after Noah Porter, one of the first to climb it, later president of Yale University.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Cascade Mountain and Pitchoff Mountain.
Cascade Mountain
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Laurent Gélinas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cascade Mountain is a mountain in the Adirondacks in the U.S. state of New York. It is the 36th-highest of the Adirondack High Peaks, with an elevation of 4,098 feet.
Pitchoff Mountain
Peak
Photo: Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pitchoff Mountain is a 3,600-foot mountain opposite Cascade Mountain on NY 73 west of Keene Valley in Essex County, New York, in the US. There are two summits; the higher summit is viewless, but the northern summit, at 3,323 feet offers 360 degree views of the nearby Cascade Lakes, the High Peaks of the Adirondacks, and, in clear weather, the Green Mountains of Vermont.
Big Slide Mountain
Peak
Photo: Petersent, Public domain.
Big Slide Mountain is a mountain in the Adirondacks in the U.S. state of New York. It is the 27th-highest of the Adirondack High Peaks, with an elevation of 4,240 feet.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Keene.
Keene
The tiny Adirondack town of Keene or Keene Valley, with a population of only 1,100, provides an array of services for campers and travelers, including food, lodging, and outdoor equipment.
Porter Mountain
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,776 feet
- Description: mountain in New York, United States of America
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Town of Keene, Essex, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.2124° or 44° 12′ 45″ northLongitude
-73.85392° or 73° 51′ 14″ westElevation
3,776 feet (1,151 metres)Open location code
87P8646W+XCOpenStreetMap ID
node 357577812OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Venetian—“Porter Mountain” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Porter Mountain”
- Breton: “Porter Mountain”
- Catalan: “Porter Mountain”
- Cebuano: “Porter Mountain”
- Corsican: “Porter Mountain”
- Danish: “Porter Mountain”
- Dutch: “Porter Mountain”
- French: “Porter Mountain”
- German: “Porter Mountain”
- Indonesian: “Porter Mountain”
- Italian: “Porter Mountain”
- Low German: “Porter Mountain”
- Polish: “Porter Mountain”
- Portuguese: “Porter Mountain”
- Romanian: “Porter Mountain”
- Spanish: “Porter Mountain”
- Swedish: “Porter Mountain”
- Tahitian: “Porter Mountain”
- Urdu: “پورٹر ماؤنٹین”
- Venetian: “Porter Mountain”
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