There are three major mountain range

Mountain range

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s in New York State, USA— the Adirondack Mountains

Adirondack Mountains

The Adirondack Mountains are a mountain range located in the northeastern part of New York, that runs through Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Saint Lawrence, Saratoga, Warren, and Washington counties....

, the Catskill Mountains

Catskill Mountains

The Catskill Mountains, an area in New York State northwest of New York City and southwest of Albany, are a mature dissected plateau, an uplifted region that was subsequently eroded into sharp relief. They are an eastward continuation, and the highest representation, of the Allegheny Plateau...

 and the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains

Appalachian Mountains

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Adirondack Mountains

The Adirondack Mountains are sometimes considered part of the Appalachians but, geologically speaking, are a southern extension of the Laurentian Mountains

Laurentian mountains

The Laurentian Mountains are a mountain range in southern Quebec, Canada, north of the St. Lawrence River and Ottawa River, rising to a highest point of 1166 metres at Mont Raoul Blanchard, north east of Quebec City in the Reserve Faunique des Laurentides. The Gatineau, L'Assomption, Lièvre,...

 of Canada

Canada

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. The Adirondacks do not form a connected range, but are an eroded dome consisting of over one hundred summits, ranging from under 1,200 to over 5,000 feet (370 m to 1,500 m) in altitude.

The highest of the Adirondack mountains are listed in the Adirondack High Peaks. Other mountains in the Adirondacks include:

• Allen Mountain
  Allen Mountain (New York)
  Allen Mountain is a mountain located in Essex County, New York. It is part of the Marcy Group of the Great Range of the Adirondack Mountains, and is flanked to the north by Mount Skylight....
  
  
• Ampersand Mountain
  Ampersand Mountain
  __notoc__Ampersand Mountain is a mountain in Franklin County in the northeastern Adirondacks, west of the High Peaks in New York State. The trail up the mountain begins on NY-3 southwest of the village of Saranac Lake, near Middle Saranac Lake; it is a popular day hike...
  
  
• Avalanche Mountain
• Averill Peak
• Baker Mountain
• Baxter Mountain
• Blue Mountain
  Blue Mountain (New York)
  Blue Mountain is a peak in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State in the United States. Located in Indian Lake, Hamilton County, the peak reaches a height of 3750ft/1143m. For hiking, the elevation gain is 1,559 feet and the trail length is four miles. The trailhead elevation is 2,200 feet...
  
  
• Blue Ridge Mountain
• Boreas Mountain
• Brown Pond Mountain
• Buell Mountain
• Bullhead Mountain
• Calamity Mountain
• Cellar Mountain
• Cheney Cobble
• Crane Mountain
• Dun Brook Mountain
• Fishing Brook Mountain
• Fishing Brook Range
• Floodwood Mountain
• Gore Mountain
  Gore Mountain (New York)
  Gore Mountain is a mountain located near the village of North Creek in Warren County, New York, of which its peak is the highest point.Gore is flanked to the north by South Mountain, and to the southwest by Height of Land Mountain....
  
  
• Green Mountain
• Hackensack Mountain
• Haystack Mountain
• Henderson Mountain
• Hoffman Mountain
• Hurricane Mountain
  Hurricane Mountain
  Hurricane Mountain is a mountain near Keene in the north of the High Peaks region of the Adirondacks in New York, USA. It has some of the most impressive views of any of the lesser peaks; this is due to its prominence, and the fact that its summit was cleared by Verplanck Colvin in the course of...
  
  
• Jay Mountain
• Jenkins Mountain
• Kilburn Mountain
• Lewey Mountain
• Little Moose Mountain
• Little Santanoni Mountain
• Long Pond Mountain
• Lost Pond Peak
• Lyon Mountain
  Lyon Mountain (Clinton County, New York)
  Lyon Mountain is a mountain located in Clinton County, New York, of which its peak is the highest point.The mountain is named for Nathaniel Lyon, an early settler of the area who moved from Vermont in 1803 and died circa 1850....
  
  
• MacNaughton Mountain
  MacNaughton Mountain
  MacNaughton Mountain is a mountain located in Essex County, New York, named after James MacNaughton , the grandson of Archibald McIntyre.The mountain is part of the Street Range of the Adirondack Mountains....
  
  
• McKenzie Mountain
  McKenzie Mountain
  McKenzie Mountain is a mountain in western Essex County in the towns of St. Armand and North Elba in the Adirondack Park, a unit of the Forest Preserve....
  
  
• Moose Mountain
• Morgan Mountain
• Mount Adams
  Mount Adams (New York)
  Mount Adams is a mountain located in Essex County of New York. Atop the mountain is the Mount Adams Fire Observation Station, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006....
  
  
• Mount Arab
  Mount Arab
  Mount Arab, sometimes known as Arab Mountain, is a mountain located in the town of Piercefield, New York, in the northern part of the Adirondack Mountain Range. At the summit of this mountain is a large fire tower and a ranger station known as the Arab Mountain Fire Observation Station...
  
  
• Mount Jo
• Moon Mountain
• Noonmark Mountain
  Noonmark Mountain
  Noonmark Mountain is a mountain near St. Huberts in the High Peaks region of the Adirondacks in New York, USA. The prominent peak provides 360-degree views, including the Great Range, the Dix Range, Giant Mountain, the Ausable River valley, and the village of Keene.There are two trails up the...
  
  
• Oven Mountain
• Owls Head Mountain
• North River Mountain
• Panther Mountain
• Pillsbury Mountain
• Pitchoff Mountain
  Pitchoff Mountain
  Pitchoff Mountain is a mountain opposite Cascade Mountain on NY 73 west of Keene Valley in Essex County, New York, in the US. There are two summits; the higher summit is viewless, but the northern summit, at offers 360 degree views of the nearby Cascade Lakes, the High Peaks of the Adirondacks,...
  
  
• Puffer Mountain
• Round Mountain
• Saddleback Mountain
• Saint Regis Mountain
  Saint Regis Mountain
  Saint Regis Mountain is a mountain in the town of Santa Clara, New York, in Franklin County at the center of the Saint Regis Canoe Area in the Adirondack Park....
  
  
• Sawtooth Mountain
• Scarface Mountain
• Sentinel Mountain
• Silver Lake Mountain
• Snowy Mountain
  Snowy Mountain (New York)
  Snowy Mountain is a mountain located in Hamilton County, New York. Initially known as 'Squaw Bonnet', its summit is the highest point in the county. While most maps show the elevation as 3899 feet, some suggest that more recent surveys have it as 3904 feet or even 3908 feet.The mountain is the...
  
  
• Stewart Mountain
• Sunrise Mountain
• Titus Mountain
  Titus (mountain)
  Titus Mountain or Titus as it is colloquially known, is a popular downhill ski area on a foothill of Titusville Mountain, south of the Village of Malone, in the Town of Malone, in Franklin County, New York. The area has a base elevation of , summit elevation of and a vertical drop of...
  
  
• Tongue Mountain Range
• TR Mountain
• Wakely Mountain
• Wallface Mountain
  Wallface Mountain
  Wallface Mountain is a mountain located in Essex County, New York.The mountain is named after the cliff on its southeastern side.Wallface is flanked to the west by MacNaughton Mountain, and faces Mount Marshall to the southeast across Indian Pass....
  
  
• Wilmington Peak
• Wolf Pond Mountain

Catskill Mountains

The Catskill Mountains, which lie northwest of New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 and southwest of Albany

Albany, New York

Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York's Capital District. Roughly north of New York City, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River...

 are a mature dissected plateau

Dissected plateau

A dissected plateau is a plateau area that has been severely eroded so that the relief is sharp. Such an area may be referred to as mountainous, but dissected plateaus are distinguishable from orogenic mountain belts by the lack of folding, metamorphism, extensive faulting, or magmatic activity...

, an uplift region that was subsequently eroded into sharp relief. They are an eastward continuation of the Allegheny Plateau

Allegheny Plateau

The Allegheny Plateau is a large dissected plateau area in western and central New York, northern and western Pennsylvania, northern and western West Virginia, and eastern Ohio...

. They are sometimes considered an extension of the Appalachian Mountains

Appalachian Mountains

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, but are not geologically related.

The highest of the Catskills are listed in the Catskill High Peaks

Catskill High Peaks

The Catskill High Peaks are all of the mountains in New York's Catskill Mountains above 3,500 ft in elevation whose summits are separated either by one-half mile or a vertical drop of at least 250 ft between it and the next nearest separate summit...

. Other mountains in the Catskills include:

• Acra Point
• Ashokan High Point
  Ashokan High Point
  Ashokan High Point is a summit in the Catskill Mountains of New York. The trail that leads up to it is very old....
  
  
• Barkaboom Mountain
• Beaver Kill Range
• Belleayre Mountain
• Blackhead Range
  Blackhead Range
  The Blackhead Mountains range is located near the northern end of the Catskill Mountains, in Greene County, New York, where it divides the towns of Windham and Jewett...
  
  
• Burnt Knob
• Cave Mountain
  Cave Mountain
  Cave Mountain is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia on the Continental Divide. It was named in 1916 by the International Boundary Survey.-See also:*List of peaks on the British Columbia-Alberta border*Mountains of Alberta...
  
  
• Churchill Mountain
• Cowan Mountain
• Cradle Rock Ridge
• Denman Mountain
• Devil's Path
  Devil's Path (Catskills)
  The Devil's Path is the name of a mountain range and hiking trail in the Greene County portion of New York's Catskill Mountains. The mountains commonly considered to be part of the Devil's Path are, from west to east, West Kill, Hunter, Plateau, Sugarloaf, Twin, and Indian Head.The name comes from...
  
  
• Dry Brook Ridge
• East Gray Hill
• East Wildcat
• East Jewett Range
• Giant Ledge
• High Falls Ridge
• Hodge Pond
• Hubbell Hill
• Huntersfield Mountain
• Ice Cave Mountain
• Irish Mountain
• Little Pisgah
• Little Rocky
• Meeker Hollow
• Mill Brook Ridge
• Mongaup Mountain
• Montgomery Hollow
• Mount Jefferson
  Mount Jefferson (New York)
  Mount Jefferson is a mountain located in Schoharie County of New York....
  
  
• Mount Pisgah
• Mount Tremper
  Mount Tremper
  Mount Tremper, officially known as Tremper Mountain and originally called Timothyberg, is one of the Catskill Mountains in the U.S. state of New York. It is located near the hamlet of Phoenicia, in the valley of Esopus Creek....
  
  
• North Plattekill
• Narrow Notch
• North Mountain
  North Mountain (Catskills)
  North Mountain is a peak in the Catskill Mountains of New York, on the border between the towns of Catskill and Hunter, in Greene County. It is part of the Catskill Escarpment....
  
  
• Northwest Moresville Range
• Old Clump Mountain
  Old Clump Mountain
  Old Clump Mountain is a summit in the Catskills in the towns of Stamford and Roxbury in Delaware County, New York.Its latitude and longitude are 42°18'39" North, 074°38'07" West...
  
  
• Olderbark Mountain
• Onteora Mountain
• Overlook Mountain
• Packsaddle / Lexington Mountain
• Pine Island Mountain
• Plattekill Mountain
• Red Hill
• Red Kill Ridge / Butternut Mountain
• Richmond Mountain
• Rose Mountain
• Round Top
• Roundtop
• Roundtop Mountain
• South Bearpen
• South Plattekill Mountain
• South Vly
• Southwest Moresville Range
• Sand Pond / Beaver Kill Ridge
• South East Warren
• Shultice Mountain
• Silver Hollow / Edgewood
• Sleeping Lion Mountain / Northeast Halcott
• Spruce Mountain
• St Anne's Peak / West Kill
• Stoppel Point
• Sukkar Mountain
• Utsayantha Mountain
• Van Wyck Mountain
• Walnut Mountain
• West Cave
• West Stoppel Point
• West Wildcat Mountain
• White Man Mountain / Hack Flats
• Willowemoc / Beaver Kill Ridge
• Winnisook Lake
  Winnisook Lake
  Winnisook Lake is an artificial lake located in Oliverea, New York, United States. It is the source of Esopus Creek and the highest lake in the Catskill Mountains at above sea level....
  
  
• Woodhull Mountain
• Woodpecker Ridge

Appalachian Mountains

The mountains of southern New York State are part of the Appalachian Mountains. Ranges include:

• Hudson Highlands
  Hudson Highlands
  The Hudson Highlands are mountains on both sides of the Hudson River in the U.S. state of New York, between Newburgh Bay and Haverstraw Bay, which form the northern region of the New York - New Jersey Highlands....
  
  
• Ramapo Mountains
  Ramapo Mountains
  The Ramapo Mountains are a forested chain of the Appalachian mountains in northeastern New Jersey and southeastern New York in the United States...
  
  
  • Bald Mountain
  • Bear Mountain
  • Black Ash Mountain
  • Blackcap Mountain
  • Black Mountain
  • Black Rock Mountain
  • Breakneck Mountain
  • Brooks Mountain
  • Brundige Mountain
  • Chipmunk Mountain
  • Car Pond Mountain
  • Cranberry Mountain
  • Diamond Mountain
  • Dunderberg Mountain
    Dunderberg Mountain
    Dunderberg Mountain stands at the so-called southern gate of the Hudson Highlands where the region's namesake Hudson River enters a dramatic gorge...
    
    
  • Echo Mountain
  • Fingerboard Mountain
  • Grape Swamp Mountain
  • Green Pond Mountain
  • Halfway Mountain
  • Hasenclever Mountain
  • Hogencamp Mountain
  • Horse Chock Mountain
  • Horse Stable Mountain
  • Irish Mountain
  • Island Pond Mountain
  • Jackie Jones Mountain
  • Knapp Mountain
  • Ladentown Mountain
  • Letterrock Mountain
  • Limekiln Mountain
  • Long Mountain
  • Nordkop Mountain
  • Panther Mountain
  • Parker Cabin Mountain
  • Pine Swamp Mountain
  • Pound Swamp Mountain
  • Rockhouse Mountain
  • Squirrel Swamp Mountain
  • Stevens Mountain
  • Stockbridge Mountain
  • Tom Jones Mountain
  • West Mountain

• Joppenbergh Mountain
  Joppenbergh Mountain
  Joppenbergh Mountain is a nearly mountain in Rosendale Village, a hamlet in the town of Rosendale, in Ulster County, New York. The mountain is composed of a carbonate bedrock overlain by glacially deposited material. It was named after Rosendale's founder, Jacob Rutsen, and mined throughout the...
  
  
• Marlboro Mountains
  Marlboro Mountains
  The Marlboro Mountains, sometimes Marlborough Mountains, are a group of hogbacked mountains arranged in a 25 mile long ridge extending from Newburgh, New York to just south of Kingston, New York. Considered to be part of the Ridge and Valley Appalachians, the mountains, which reach elevations...
  
  
• Shawangunk Ridge
  Shawangunk Ridge
  The Shawangunk Ridge , also known as the Shawangunk Mountains or The Gunks, is a ridge of bedrock in Ulster County, Sullivan County and Orange County in the state of New York, extending from the northernmost point of New Jersey to the Catskill Mountains.The ridgetop, which widens considerably at...
  
  
  • Millbrook Mountain

• Taconic Mountains
  Taconic Mountains
  The Taconic Mountains or Taconic Range are a physiographic section of the larger New England province and part of the Appalachian Mountains, running along the eastern border of New York State and adjacent New England from northwest Connecticut to western Massachusetts, north to central western...
  
  
  • Alander Mountain
    Alander Mountain
    Alander Mountain, is a prominent peak of the south Taconic Mountains; it is located in southwest Massachusetts and adjacent New York. Part of the summit is grassy and open and part is covered with scrub oak and shrubs; the sides of the mountain are wooded with northern hardwood tree species....
    
    
  • Berlin Mountain
    Berlin Mountain
    Berlin Mountain, , is a prominent peak in the Taconic Mountains of western New England and adjacent New York. The summit and west side of the mountain are located in New York; the east side lies within Massachusetts. The mountain is a bald, notable for its grassy summit and expansive views of the...
    
    
  • Brace Mountain
    Brace Mountain
    Brace Mountain is the peak of a ridge in the southern Taconic Mountains, near the tripoint of the U.S. states of New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts...
    
    
  • Mount Raimer
    Mount Raimer
    Mount Raimer, , is a prominent peak in the Taconic Mountains of western Massachusetts and adjacent New York. The west side and summit are located in New York; the east slopes lie within Massachusetts. The summit ridge is part meadow and part wooded with red spruce, balsam fir, and northern hardwood...
    
    
  • White Rock
    White Rock (Taconic Mountains)
    White Rock, , is the name of the high point on a ridgeline in the Taconic Mountains. The ridge is located in the tri-state corner of New York, Massachusetts, and Vermont in the towns of Petersburgh, Williamstown, and Pownal...
    
    

Sources

Myles, William J., Harriman Trails, A Guide and History, The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, New York, N.Y., 1999.

External links

• Catskill High Peaks List Catskill 3500 Club
• Adirondack 100 Highest and Catskill 100 Highest