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Mountain in New York, US

Cascade Mountain
Cascade Mountain, from Porter Mountain
Highest point
Elevation4,098 ft (1,249 m) NGVD 29
ListingAdirondack High Peaks 36th
Coordinates44°13′07″N 73°51′38″W / 44.21861°N 73.86056°W / 44.21861; -73.86056
Geography
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LocationLake Placid, New York, U.S.
Parent rangeAdirondacks
Topo mapUSGS Keene Valley
Climbing
First ascent1872, by Lon Pierce (first recorded)
Easiest routeHike

Cascade Mountain is in Essex County of New York. It is one of the 46 Adirondack High Peaks (36th) and is located in the Adirondack Park. Its name comes from a series of waterfalls on a brook near the mountain's base. The lake it flows into and the pass between Cascade and Pitchoff mountains are also named Cascade.

Cascade Mountain towers over the Van Hoevenberg ski center, the venue for bobsledding at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Of the 46 Adirondack High Peaks, Cascade is the most accessible and the most frequently climbed. The main trailhead is on Route 73, 6 miles (10 km) east of Lake Placid, at Cascade Pass, overlooking Cascade Lake. The summit is visible from the trailhead, a rare occurrence in the High Peaks.

The well-used trail follows red plastic markers and takes the hiker up 2.2 miles (4.6 km) and almost 2,000 vertical feet (600 vertical m) to the mountain's bare-rock summit, which, while it resembles the alpine summits found on many higher peaks, is instead the result of a 1903 fire.

Views are possible in all directions, and on a clear day with good weather one often finds many hikers on the summit.

Porter Mountain, another of the High Peaks, is an easy side-trip. The summit of Porter Mountains is 0.7 miles from Cascade Mountain Trail. The two summits can be reached together on a 6.2-mile hike.

Gallery

  • View of Porter (left), Big Slide (middle) and, from left to right in the background, Armstrong, Gothics, Saddleback from Cascade Mountain. View of Porter (left), Big Slide (middle) and, from left to right in the background, Armstrong, Gothics, Saddleback from Cascade Mountain.
  • South-east view on Blueberry Mountain from Cascade Mountain. South-east view on Blueberry Mountain from Cascade Mountain.
  • Top of the Cascade Mountain. Top of the Cascade Mountain.
  • Ascension to the Summit Rock. Ascension to the Summit Rock.

Notes

  1. Goodwin, Tony, ed. (2021). Adirondack trails. High peaks region (15th ed.). Adirondack Mountain Club. pp. 286–287. ISBN 9780998637181.
  2. "The Peaks – Adirondack 46ers". adk46er.org. Retrieved May 30, 2024.
  3. "Cascade Mountain". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved May 30, 2024.
  4. Carson, Russell M. L. (1927). Peaks and People of the Adirondacks. Garden City: Doubleday. pp. 205–207. ISBN 9781404751200.
  5. "Cascade Mountain and Porter Mountain in the Adirondack Mountains". hikespeak.com. hikespeak.com. Retrieved December 17, 2016.

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