Snowy Mountain 📍

Snowy Mountain is a mountain located in Hamilton County, New York. Initially known as ‘Squaw Bonnet’, its summit is the highest point in the county. While most maps show the elevation as 3899 feet, some suggest that more recent surveys have it as 3904 feet or even 3908 feet.

The mountain is the highest in the Adirondack Mountains south of the 4,000 ft (1,200 m) High Peaks region. It is one of thirteen mountain in New York with more than 2,000 ft (610 m) of topographic prominence. Snowy Mountain is flanked to the northeast by Squaw Mountain (3239 feet), and to the southwest by Lewey Mountain (3742 feet). A subsidiary ridge comes off the summit to the east ending at unnamed ‘Peak 3149’ (3149 feet) which forms the head of a large bowl overlooking the Griffin Brook drainage.