Baker Mountain is a mountain in

Essex County, New York Essex County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 37,381. Its county seat is the hamlet of Elizabethtown. Its name is from the English county of Essex. Essex is one of only 2 counties that are ...

east of Saranac Lake. It is part of the

McKenzie Mountain Wilderness Area The McKenzie Mountain Wilderness Area, an Adirondack Park unit of the Forest Preserve, lies in western Essex County in the towns of St. Armand, North Elba and Wilmington. In general, the Saranac River and Franklin Falls Pond border on the north ...

. The trail to the top is about 0.9-miles long; the hike is part of the "Saranac Sixer".

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lies at its foot. It is one of three small mountains surrounding Saranac Lake: the others are Mount Pisgah and

Dewey Mountain ''There is another Dewey Mountain in Chittenden County, Vermont'' Dewey Mountain is a mountain in Franklin County, New York just south of the village of Saranac Lake. A hill that slopes down to Lake Flower Lake Flower is a lake in Frankli ...

. There were major forest fires on Baker in 1903 and 1908. The first recorded ascent of Baker Mountain on skis was made by Edwin R. Stonaker on March 11, 1916. In the prohibition era, the Mt. Baker Club was a speakeasy at the foot of the mountain.

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{{Mountains of New York Mountains of Franklin County, New York