Hike Blue Mountain Adirondack Park, NY

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Jul 6, 2025 — The Blue Mountain Fire Tower Trail hike is a short outing to a fairly high-prominence mountain with great summit views. The trail started gently, more like a wide old road before transitioning to singletrack. It’s typical forested walk. It eventually tilted sharply upward, ascending at a more rapid pace toward the fire tower.

Breaking out at the bald summit, I found the steel fire tower rising above the trees, a 35-foot structure here since 1917. I climbed the narrow stairs to get views of the Adirondacks spread out in every direction. Blue Mountain Lake shimmered below.

PEAKS ON HIKE
Elevation (ft) / Prominence (ft)

Peaks on hike

Elevation

Prominence

Blue Mountain

3762 ft

1954 rise

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Blue Mountain Trailhead.

The trail is wide and begins climbing gradually.

More like an old roadbed for the first part of the hike than a singletrack.

Typical forest walk along the Blue Mountain Trail.

Planks along the Blue Mountain Trail.

Ascending more steeply now.

Slabs of stone as the trail ascends through progressively more lush forest.

Higher elevation greenery along the Blue Mountain Trail.

Blue Mountain Fire Tower.

View east from within the fire tower.

View east.

View west toward Blue Mountain Lake.

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