Bearfort Mountain, historically known as Bear Ford Mountain, is a mountain ridge located near Wawayanda State Park in West Milford,

Passaic County, New Jersey Passaic County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey that is part of the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, the population of Passaic County was enumerated at 524,118, an increase of 22,892 (4.6%) from t ...

. It is a continuation of

Bellvale Mountain Bellvale Mountain is a mountain range located near Bellvale in Orange County, New York. It is a continuation of Bearfort Mountain in New Jersey. The Appalachian Trail The Appalachian Trail (also called the A.T.), is a hiking trail in the E ...

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. The

Appalachian Trail The Appalachian Trail (also called the A.T.), is a hiking trail in the Eastern United States, extending almost between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine, and passing through 14 states.Gailey, Chris (2006)"Appalachian Tr ...

crosses along the ridge into New York. Puddingstone of the

Skunnemunk Conglomerate The Skunnemunk Conglomerate (also spelled Schunemunk) is a mapped bedrock unit in New Jersey and New York from the Middle Devonian period. It forms the resistant ridge of Schunemunk Mountain in New York and Bearfort Mountain in New Jersey. Descri ...

is visible along the ridge. At an elevation of the ridge is the site of a high

fire lookout tower A fire lookout tower, fire tower or lookout tower, provides housing and protection for a person known as a "fire lookout" whose duty it is to search for wildfires in the wilderness. It is a small building, usually on the summit of a mountain or ...

built by the

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.National Historic Lookout Register
Bearfort Fire Tower US 244, NJ 6
. Retrieved 24 April 2015.New Jersey Forest Fire Service

Retrieved 24 April 2015. The mountain was depicted in an 1850 painting by

Jasper Francis Cropsey Jasper Francis Cropsey (February 18, 1823 – June 22, 1900) was an important American landscape artist of the Hudson River School. Early years Cropsey was born on his father Jacob Rezeau Cropsey's farm in Rossville on Staten Island, New Yor ...

, an American

landscape artist Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composi ...

of the

Hudson River School The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. The paintings typically depict the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, ...

. File:Bearfort Mountain fire tower, West Milford, NJ.jpg, Bearfort Ridge Fire Tower File:Brooklyn Museum - Bareford Mountains, West Milford, New Jersey - Jasper Francis Cropsey - overall.jpg, ''Bareford Mountains, West Milford, New Jersey'' by

, 1850

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Ridges of New Jersey Landforms of Passaic County, New Jersey Mountains on the Appalachian Trail {{PassaicCountyNJ-geo-stub

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