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Whiteface Mountain is the fifth-highest mountain in the U.S. state of New York, and one of the High Peaks of the Adirondack Mountains, located in the town of Wilmington in Essex County. Set apart from most of the other High Peaks, the summit offers a 360-degree view of the Adirondacks and clear-day glimpses of Vermont and Canada , where ...
Whiteface Mountain is the fifth-highest mountain in New York, and one of the High Peaks of the Adirondack Mountains. Starting about 2.5 million years ago, a cycle of Pleistocene glacial and interglacial periods began which covered the area in ice.
Lists of mountains by region. List of mountain peaks of North America. List of mountain peaks of Greenland; Mountain peaks of Canada. List of mountains of Canada; List of volcanoes in Canada; The 100 Highest major mountain peaks of Canada; The 142 Ultra-prominent mountain peaks of Canada; The 100 Most topographically isolated major mountain ...
The Adirondack Mountains are sometimes considered part of the Appalachians but, geologically speaking, are a southern extension of the Laurentian Mountains of Canada. The Adirondacks do not form a connected range, but are an eroded dome consisting of over one hundred summits, ranging from under 1,200 feet (366 m) to over 5,000 feet (1,524 m) in ...
The NY 431 designation continues along the highway to the Union Falls Overlook, a scenic view 2,700 feet (820 m) in elevation about one mile (1.6 km) into the scenic drive. [1] [5] At this point, NY 431 curves to the south, climbing up the western side of both Esther Mountain and Whiteface Mountain. [4]
North Pole is located in Adirondack Park at the northern edge of Essex County near Whiteface Mountain, 12 miles (19 km) from Lake Placid and approximately 30 miles (48 km) from Plattsburgh. Fitting with the name of the hamlet, North Pole is one of the best places in the Northeast for snow.
Mount Whiteface is a 4,019 ft (1,225 m) mountain located in Grafton County, New Hampshire. The mountain is part of the Sandwich Range of the White Mountains. Whiteface is flanked to the northwest by Mount Tripyramid, and to the northeast by Mount Passaconaway. Whiteface is on the eastern border of the Sandwich Range Wilderness.
Canada has a vast geography that occupies much of the continent of North America, sharing a land border with the contiguous United States to the south and the U.S. state of Alaska to the northwest. Canada stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; to the north lies the Arctic Ocean. [1]