Tongue Mountains 📍

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1967 Trail Marker

Most of the trailmarkers you see along trails in NYS have indicators that they where installed between '67 and '69, although in a few places you see newer ones, particularly on popular trails. Says something about NYS Conservation Ethics and investment in outdoor recreation.

Saturday May 30, 2009 — Tongue Mountains
Map: Green Mountain National Forest North
Map: Green Mnt NF Forest Road 74 Camping

Tongue Mountain Lake George

Tongue Mountain sticks out like a tongue into Lake George. It's a series of connected peaks running nine miles along the spine of a peninsula that juts southward into the lake.

Tongue Mountain Lake George

Map: Spy Lake

Trail Back Up Mountain

This believe it or not was an old wagon road. It's pretty much impassable by anybody but the hiker due to abandonment over a century ago.

Saturday May 30, 2009 — Tongue Mountains
Map: Chautauqua Lake Fish and Wildlife Mangement Areas
Thematic Map: Catskill Park State Land Classifications
Map: Saratoga Sand Plains Wildlife Management Area
Map: Big Alderbed Lake Trail