Hough Peak
Hough Peak | |
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![]() Hough Peak (center) seen from the ridge to Dix Mt. | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 4,400 ft (1,300 m) NGVD 29[1] |
Listing | Adirondack High Peaks 23rd[2] |
Coordinates | 44°04′10″N 73°46′39″W / 44.0694981°N 73.7776352°W[3] |
Geography | |
Location | North Hudson, Essex County, New York |
Parent range | Dix Range |
Topo map | USGS Mount Marcy |
Climbing | |
First ascent | August 13, 1921, by Bob Marshall, George Marshall, and Herbert Clark[4] |
Easiest route | Dix Range Herd Path |
Hough Peak (/ˈhʌf/) is a mountain located in Essex County, New York. The mountain, part of the Dix Range, is named after Franklin B. Hough (1822–1885), the first chief of the United States Division of Forestry, and sometimes called the "father of American forestry". Hough Peak is flanked to the north by Dix Mountain, and to the south by South Dix.
The east side of Hough Peak drains into the headwaters of the South Fork of the Boquet River, thence into Lake Champlain, which drains into Canada's Richelieu River, the Saint Lawrence River, and into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The west side of Hough Peak drains into Lillian Brook, thence into the East Inlet of Elk Lake, and into The Branch of the Schroon River, the Hudson River, and into New York Bay.
Hough Peak is within the Dix Mountain Wilderness Area of Adirondack State Park.
See also
[edit]- List of mountains in New York
- Northeast 111 4,000-footers
- Adirondack High Peaks
- Adirondack Forty-Sixers
Notes
[edit]- ^ Goodwin, Tony, ed. (2021). Adirondack trails. High peaks region (15th ed.). Adirondack Mountain Club. pp. 286–287. ISBN 9780998637181.
- ^ "The Peaks – Adirondack 46ers". adk46er.org. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ "Hough Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
- ^ Carson, Russell M. L. (1927). Peaks and People of the Adirondacks. Garden City: Doubleday. pp. 231–234. ISBN 9781404751200.
External links
[edit]- "Hough Peak, New York". Peakbagger.com.
- "Hough Peak". SummitPost.org.