Mount Skylight
| Mount Skylight | |
|---|---|
 Mount Skylight as seen from the summit of Mount Marcy. | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 4,925 ft (1,501 m)[1] |
| Prominence | 578 ft (176 m)[1] |
| Parent peak | Mount Marcy[1] |
| Listing | Adirondack High Peaks 4th |
| Coordinates | 44°05′58″N 73°55′51″W / 44.09944°N 73.93083°W[2] |
| Geography | |
  Mount Skylight | |
| Parent range | Adirondacks |
| Topo map | USGS Mount Marcy |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | Verplanck Colvin, Orson Schofield Phelps and unknown party, 1873 (first recorded)[3] |
| Easiest route | Hike |
Mount Skylight is a mountain in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Skylight is the fourth highest peak in New York, with an elevation of 4,925 feet (1,501 m), and one of the 46 High Peaks in Adirondack Park. It is located in the town of Keene in Essex County.[1] The mountain was given its name by artist Frederick S. Perkins and guide Orson Schofield Phelps in 1857, due to a rock formation on the peak resembling a window.[4] Phelps would later make the first known ascent of the peak with surveyor Verplanck Colvin and two others on August 28, 1873.[3]
A single trail goes 0.5 miles (0.80 km) up to the mountain's summit from the Four Corners junction between Skylight and
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Notes
- ^ a b c d "Mount Skylight". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2014-12-31.
- ^ "Mount Skylight". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2014-12-31.
- ^ ISBN 0910146756.
- ISBN 9781404751200.
- ^ ISBN 9780998637181.
External links
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mount Skylight
- Summitpost.org: Mount Skylight
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