Mount Haystack

Mount Haystack
Mount Haystack from Little Haystack
Highest point
Elevation	4,960 ft (1,510 m)
Prominence	840 ft (260 m) ^[1]
Listing	Adirondack High Peaks
Coordinates	44°06′20″N 73°54′2″W / 44.10556°N 73.90056°W / 44.10556; -73.90056Coordinates: 44°06′20″N 73°54′2″W / 44.10556°N 73.90056°W / 44.10556; -73.90056
Geography
Location	Keene, New York, U.S.
Parent range	Adirondacks
Topo map	USGS Mount Marcy
Climbing
First ascent	1849 by Orson Schofield Phelps and party
Easiest route	Hike

Mount Haystack is a mountain in the Great Range of the Adirondack High Peaks in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. It is the third highest peak in the state, after Algonquin Peak and Mount Marcy. It gets its name from the resemblance of its rounded, conical peak to a haystack. It is north of Mount Redfield.

Despite this and the views offered from its bare, alpine summit, it is not visited by as many hikers outside of aspiring members of the Adirondack Forty-Sixers; it is rather remote from the nearest trailhead and the approach from either direction is steep and challenging.

The most frequent approach of Haystack as the main goal is to follow the Johns Brook Trail from the popular Garden parking area in Keene Valley to the Phelps Trail and then use Shorey's Short Cut to get over to the Range Trail. It is possible to combine this with an attempt on Marcy itself, but that makes for a long day and the approach from Panther Gorge is even steeper than that from the north.

Some hikers come along the Great Range itself, making the peak their last stop before Marcy itself, or combine it with neighboring Basin and Saddleback. It can also be approached from privately owned Upper Ausable Lake.

One of the most famous elements of Haystack is the infamous "Devil's Half Mile". This stretch, which is technically three-quarters mile (1.2 km), is the extremely steep last stretch of the trail.

Gallery

Little Haystack (left) and Mount Haystack (center), from Mount Marcy

Notes

↑ Key col elevation between 1,250 and 1,260 m.

External links

The High Peaks of New York's Adirondack Mountains

Northern Adirondacks	Esther Whiteface

Eastern Adirondacks	Giant Rocky Peak

Colvin Range	Blake Colvin Dial Nippletop

Dix Range	Dix Grace Peak South Dix Hough Macomb

Northern High Peaks	Big Slide Cascade Phelps Porter Table Top

Marcy Group	Allen Cliff Colden Gray Haystack Marcy Redfield Skylight

Other Great Range	Armstrong Basin Gothics Saddleback Sawteeth Lower Wolfjaw Upper Wolfjaw

MacIntyre Mountains	Algonquin Iroquois Marshall Wright

Santanoni Mountains	Couchsachraga Panther Santanoni

Seward Mountains	Donaldson Emmons Seward Seymour

Street Range	(MacNaughton) Nye Street

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