Sentinel Range Wilderness

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Description

The Sentinel Range Wilderness Area, an Adirondack Park unit of New York's Forest Preserve, is located in the towns of Wilmington, North Elba and Keene, Essex County. The Sentinel Range and its slopes dominate the area and five small ponds are situated near the northern and northwestern boundaries. Sentinel Mountain and the general northeastern quarter of the area are characterized by bare rock outcropping that resulted from forest fires more than a half century ago. The terrain is steep and rugged, with some vertical cliffs facing north and northeast. The eastern slopes of the area have a hardwood forest that regenerated after the forest fires. There are mixed hardwood and softwood stands, primarily along brooks on the eastern slopes. The remainder of the area has a mixed hardwood-softwood cover with some small pockets of white pine between ledges near the northern boundary. Good views may be obtained from the top of Sentinel and Pitchoff Mountains, but forest cover restricts the view of Kelburn Mountain, Stewart Mountain, Slide Mountain and Black Mountain. There is an excellent view of the Wilmington Notch-Whiteface Mountain section from a lean-to site on the south side of Copperas Pond.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • Adirondack Park
  • Balanced Rocks Trail
  • Bartlett Road
  • Cascade Ski Center
  • Connery Pond Trail
  • Jackrabbit Trail
  • Lime Kilm Road
  • Murphy Way
  • Nichols Brook Way
  • Pitchoff Mountain Trail

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Adirondack Trail Inn
  • Base Lodge
  • Black Mountain
  • Brown Mountain
  • Connery Pond Parking Area
  • Eisenglass Mountain
  • Hiccock Mountain
  • High Falls
  • High Falls Gorge
  • John Browns Farm Historic Site
  • Kilburn Mountain
  • Ledgerock at Whiteface
  • Monument Falls Car Parking
  • North Elba
  • Pine Mountain
  • Pitchoff Mountain
  • Pitchoff Walls Car Parking
  • Scotts Cobble
  • Sentinel Mountain
  • Slide Mountain
  • Stewart Mountain
  • Temporary Parking
  • The Cobble Mountain
  • The Inn at Whiteface
  • Upper Jay

Copyright

The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Aerial imagery available from the U.S. Geological Survey. Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Onasill ~ Bill Badzo https://www.flickr.com/photos/onasill/46081570621/ CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/).