MacNaughton Mountain

Infobox Mountain
Name = MacNaughton Mountain
Photo = MacNaughton Mt NY seen from Duck Hole dam.jpg
Caption = MacNaughton Mt. (summit centre) seen from Duck Hole
Elevation = convert|1214|m|ft|0|lk=on
Prominence = convert|260|m|ft|-1|abbr=on [Key col elevation between 950 and 960 m. [http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=44.15298&lon=-74.04318&datum=nad83&u=7&layer=DRG&size=m&s=50] ]
Location = Essex County, New York
Range = Street Range
Coordinates = coord|44|8.39|N|74|3.86|W |type:mountain_region:US |display=inline,title
Topographic
USGS "Ampersand Lake"
Type = |Age =
First ascent =
Easiest route =
Listing = Adirondack High Peaks

MacNaughton Mountain is a mountain located in Essex County, New York, named after James MacNaughton (1851–1905), [cite web
url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E05E1DB153AE733A25753C3A9649D946497D6CF
title= "JAMES MacNAUGHTON DEAD / President of the MacIntyre Iron Company a Victim of Pneumonia."
date= December 30, 1905 | format= |work= |publisher= "New York Times"
quote= "Mr. MacNaughton was by profession a civil engineer. ... He was prominently identified with the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks, of which he was a Vice President."
accessdate= 2007-11-08 ] the grandson of Archibald McIntyre. The mountain is part of the Street Range of the Adirondack Mountains.

The western slopes and north end of MacNaughton Mountain drain into Preston Ponds and Duck Hole pond, the source of the Cold River, which drains into the Raquette River, the Saint Lawrence River in Canada, and into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.The eastern slopes and south end of MacNaughton Mtn. drain into the southern Indian Pass Brook, thence into Henderson Lake, the source of the Hudson River, and into New York Bay.

MacNaughton Mountain is within the High Peaks Wilderness Area of New York's Adirondack Park.

According to early surveys, MacNaughton Mountain's elevation was convert|3976|ft|m|0|abbr=on, short of the 4,000 ft needed to qualify it as one of the Adirondack High Peaks. According to the 1953 survey, the mountain "did" reach that height, while four of the 46 peaks on the list fell short. [cite web
url= http://docs.unh.edu/nhtopos/Santanoni.htm
title= Santanoni, NY Quadrangle
date= 15 January 2002 | work= Historic USGS Maps of New England & New York
publisher= University of New Hampshire
accessdate= 2007-11-08 MacNaughton Mountain is in the southeast corner.] However, the list was kept the same because those were the original 46.

Notes

See also

* List of mountains in New York
* Northeast 111 4,000-footers
* Adirondack High Peaks
* Adirondack Forty-Sixers

External links

* [http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=6017 Peakbagger.com: MacNaughton Mountain]
* [http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/150744/macnaughton-mountain.html Summitpost.org: MacNaughton Mountain]
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