Mount Marcy, New York

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 5344 ft / 1629 m
Alternate Name(s)	Tahawus
Subpeaks	Gray Peak (4826 ft/1471 m) Little Marcy (4744 ft/1446 m) Mount Marcy-Northwest Peak (4406 ft/1343 m)
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	44° 6' 46'' N, 73° 55' 26'' W 44.112857, -73.923784 (Dec Deg) 586121 E 4884971 N, Zone 18 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	New York (Highest Point)
County/Second Level Region	Essex (Highest Point)
City/Town	Keene (Highest Point)
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Mount Marcy":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Mount Marcy at SummitPost.org      Mount Marcy at ListsOfJohn.com      Weather for Mount Marcy at Mountain-Forecast.com      CoHP.org Trip Report for Essex, NY by David Galvin      CoHP.org Trip Report for Essex, NY by Thomas Harper      CoHP.org Trip Report for Essex, NY by Adam Helman      CoHP.org Trip Report for Essex, NY by Edward Earl Weather and Snow      National Weather Service Forecast      NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Mount Marcy:      USA Lower 48 Top 400 Peaks by Prominence (Rank #58)      USA Lower 48 Range5 High Points (Rank #444)      USA/Canada Range4 High Points (Rank #148)      USA Lower 48 Peaks with 4000 feet of Prominence (Rank #58)      Northeast USA 4000-foot Peaks (Rank #6)      USA Lower 48 Peaks with 100 miles of Isolation (Rank #31)      Eastern USA Peaks with 2500 feet of Prominence (Rank #3)      Mid-Atlantic CoHPs (Rank #1)      Northeast USA Drainage Basin High Points (Rank #4)      USA Lower 48 Drainage Basin High Points (Rank #28)      U.S. State Park High Points (Rank #10)      United States State High Points (plus DC) (Rank #21)      USA Lower 48 Range4 High Points (Rank #82)      Northeastern USA CoHPs (Rank #2)      U.S. State High Points (Rank #21)      2000-foot Prominence CoHPs - 48 States (Rank #47)      Adirondack Mountains 3700-foot Peaks (Rank #1)      New York County High Points (Rank #1)      Adirondack Hundred Highest (Rank #1)      Adirondack 46ers (Rank #1) (Peak is on over 20 lists; Not all shown here.) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Fifty State Summits, Guide with Maps to State Highpoints (Zumwalt)        Highpoints of the United States: A Guide to the Fifty State Summits (Holmes)        Adirondack Trails High Peaks Region (Goodwin, Burdick)        Peak Experiences, Hiking the Highest Summits of New York (Fallesen)        Highpoint Adventures: The Complete Guide to the 50 State Highpoints (Winger) Selected Trip Reports from this site:      1985-08-25 by Ben Lostracco      2003-11-15 by Luc Tremblay      2008-09-01 by Kat Bel      2009-10-14 by JF Theroux (GPS Track)      2010-03-13 by Jerry Meitz      2010-06-25 by Marlin Thorman (GPS Track)      2010-10-02 by Austin Black      2010-10-30 by Sean Ryan (Unsuccessful) (GPS Track)      2011-08-21 by Gabriel C (GPS Track)      2011-10-23 by Arya Morshed      2011-11-21 by Dan Quinlan      2012-05-06 by Mike Guethle      2012-05-27 by Dennis Poulin (GPS Track)      2012-08-09 by William Musser      2012-08-16 by Scott Duclos (GPS Track)      2012-08-16 by Elizabeth Sweet (GPS Track)      2012-09-22 by Jim DeLillo (GPS Track)      2013-07-21 by Gabriel C (GPS Track)      2014-07-30 by Michael Vaughan (GPS Track)      2014-08-10 by Alan Barber      2014-09-27 by Mike & Aiden O'Connor (GPS Track)      2014-12-06 by Richard Hachem (GPS Track)      2015-07-03 by Ryan Turner (GPS Track)      2015-07-18 by Cynthia Chan      2015-08-17 by Jen Masa (GPS Track)      2015-08-29 by Sergey Boldyrev (GPS Track)      2015-08-29 by Cynthia Chan      2015-09-06 by Crystal Davis      2015-12-27 by Richard Hachem (GPS Track)      2016-03-05 by Michael Stonek (GPS Track)      2016-03-05 by Ed Kobos      2016-03-26 by Ruud van den Boom (GPS Track)      2016-08-07 by Matthew Cole (GPS Track)      2016-09-26 by Richard Hensley (GPS Track)      2017-06-17 by S R (GPS Track)      2017-08-10 by Josh Schmid      2017-09-30 by Sylvain Louhaur (GPS Track)      2017-10-21 by Jen Masa (GPS Track)      2018-04-21 by Sylvain Louhaur (GPS Track)      2018-07-11 by Paul McClellan (GPS Track) View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members (1470 total) Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Mount Marcy      Elevation Ladder from Mount Marcy      Prominence Ladder from Mount Marcy

Marcy is framed by trees in this view from Lake Tear of the Clouds, the highest lake source of the Hudson.
Web Map Links	Peakfinder Panorama GeoHack Links   CalTopo   MyTopo   Bing Maps Google Maps   Open Street Map
Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 4914 ft/1498 m   Optimistic Prominence: 4924 ft/1501 m   Line Parent: Grandfather Mountain   Key Col: Erie Canal    430 ft/131 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 129.64 mi/208.64 km    Isolation Limit Point: 44.25501, -71.321849 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Mount Monroe  (E)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: North America Plains Range3: Canadian Shield Range4: Adirondack Mountains (Highest Point) Range5: Adirondack High Peaks (Highest Point) Range6: Marcy Group (Highest Point)
Ridges/Divides	Appalachian Divide
Drainage Basins	Hudson (HP) New York Harbor (HP) Atlantic Ocean Ausable Lake Champlain (HP) Richelieu (HP) St. Lawrence (HP) Gulf of St. Lawrence (HP) Atlantic Ocean
Ownership	Land: Adirondack State Park (Highest Point) Wilderness/Special Area: High Peaks SWA (Highest Point)
Topo Map	Mount Marcy K44073a7 1:25,000
First Ascent	August 05, 1837 John Cheney Ebenezer Emmons James Hall David Henderson Harvey Holt Charles Ingham William Redfield John Torrey
Route #1	Maintained Hiking Trail: Van Hoevenburg Trail Trailhead: Adirondak Loj 2182 ft/665 m Vertical Gain: 3162 ft/964 m
Route #2	Maintained Hiking Trail: Feldspar Trailhead: Tahawus 1800 ft/549 m Vertical Gain: 3544 ft/1080 m
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
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Other Photos

salamander seen on ascent (2014-07-27). Photo by John Jakob. Click here for larger-size photo.

summit plaque - looks great (2014-07-27). Photo by John Jakob. Click here for larger-size photo.

We did it!!! (2014-09-27). Photo by Mike & Aiden O'Connor. Click here for larger-size photo.

Lake Tear of the Clouds (2007-06). Photo by Mitch Bacharach. Click here for larger-size photo.

Splashing in the Opalescent (2007-06). Photo by Mitch Bacharach. Click here for larger-size photo.

Mount Marcy, NY 2008 (2008-01-17). Photo by Allison Coleman. Click here for larger-size photo.

Perfect weather atop NY (2015-07-20). Photo by Michael Vecchiarelli. Click here for larger-size photo.

Summit of Mount Marcy on October 17, 2015. 6 inches of snow, temperature in the single digits with 40mph wind. Three of us have climbed Algonquin two month prior to this trip, and two of us have never hiked a real mountain. We started from Adirondack Loj at around 8AM and made it to the peak without crampon or snowshoes at 4 in the afternoon; returned to the car right before midnight (2015-10-17). Photo by Harris Bei. Click here for larger-size photo.

My shadow on the summit of Marcy (2015-11-08). Photo by Josh Brooks. Click here for larger-size photo.

Marcy! (2015-08-29). Photo by Mary Ruth Merkel. Click here for larger-size photo.

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