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Bear Mountain State Park is a 5,205-acre (21.06 km 2) state park located on the west bank of the Hudson River in Rockland and Orange counties, New York. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] The park offers biking, hiking, boating, picnicking, swimming, cross-country skiing , cross-country running, sledding and ice skating.
Bear Mountain was historically known as "Bear Hill" and "Bread Tray Mountain". [1] Franklin D. Roosevelt at Bear Mountain, 1929. Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralytic illness developed in the summer of 1921, two weeks after he visited a Boy Scout camp at Hessian Lake on the eastern edge of Bear Mountain. It is possible the illness was related to ...
Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains into the Oak Creek watershed. [3] Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1,570 feet (479 meters) above Boynton Canyon in one-half mile (0.8 km). Bear Mountain is composed of light-colored Coconino Sandstone overlaying reddish Schnebly Hill Formation.
The park's hiking trails are currently maintained by volunteers from the New York - New Jersey Trail Conference. On its northeastern edge, Harriman State Park borders the 5,000-acre (20 km 2) Bear Mountain State Park as well as the United States Military Academy's 16,000-acre (65 km 2) forest reserve.
Bear Mountain is a peak in the Tehachapi Mountains, near Tehachapi, California. The mountain is north of Bear Valley Springs, and west of the Tehachapi Loop, a spiral on the railroad line through Tehachapi Pass. California condors, mountain lions, mule deer and bobcats can be found among the sugar pines trees. [3] Much of the mountain is on ...
Zaynab Joseph, 40, fell to her death off a cliff on Bear Mountain in Sedona, Arizona, while hiking with her husband and toddler (Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office/ Joseph family/ Facebook)
Staff from the Bridge Authority and other area partners gather at the Bear Mountain Bridge Nov. 17, 2023, to recreate a photo taken by the construction crew in 1924.
Bear Mountain is a peak of the southern Taconic Mountains in Salisbury, Connecticut.At 2,316 feet (706 m) (note, per references 1 and 3, there is disagreement about the precise elevation), Bear Mountain is the highest mountain that lies wholly within Connecticut.