Loon Lake Mountains are a pair of mountains, the tallest being , near
Loon Lake in
Franklin County, New York
Franklin County is a county on the northern border of the U.S. state of New York. To the north across the Canada–United States border are the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, from east to west. As of the 2020 census, the county popul ...
. On the summit is the
Loon Lake Mountain Fire Observation Station
The Loon Lake Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on the western end of the Loon Lake Mountains west of Loon Lake in Franklin County, New York in the Debar Mountain Wild Forest. The station and contri ...
, which was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2015.
For a long time, Loon Lake Mountain was closed to the public and only accessible via rough terrain, but a 5.9 mile round-trip trail was opened to the public in 2013 and is being maintained by the
New York Department of Environmental Conservation
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (informally referred to as NYSDEC, DEC, EnCon or NYSENCON) is a department of New York state government. The department guides and regulates the conservation, improvement, and protection ...
.
References
Mountains of New York (state)
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