Hough Peak map

Hough Peak

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1 342 m

Elevation

Elevation is the altitude of a place
above sea level.

111 m

Prominence

Peak’s prominence is the least
vertical to be covered to get from the
summit to any other higher terrain.

Proportional Prominence 585 m

AHP46

The 46 Adirondack High Peaks

About

Hough Peak () is a mountain located in Essex County, New York.

The mountain, part of the Dix Range, is named after Franklin B. Hough (1822–1885), the first chief of the United States Division of Forestry, and sometimes called the "father of American forestry".

Hough Peak is flanked to the north by Dix Mountain, and to the south by South Dix.

The east side of Hough Peak drains into the headwaters of the South Fork of the Boquet River, thence into Lake Champlain, which drains into Canada's Richelieu River, the Saint Lawrence River, and into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

The west side of Hough Peak drains into Lillian Brook, thence into the East Inlet of Elk Lake, and into The Branch of the Schroon River, the Hudson River, and into New York Bay.

Hough Peak is within the Dix Mountain Wilderness Area of Adirondack State Park.

There's a hiking trail (T2) called Dix Range Trail leading to the summit. Hough Peak is one of the 2 peaks along the Dix Range Trail.

By elevation Hough Peak is

# 27 out of 1601 in Adirondack Park
# 27 out of 3825 in New York
# 25 out of 126 in High Peaks Wilderness
# 27 out of 591 in Essex County
# 3 out of 24 in the Dix Range
# 27 out of 1678 in the Adirondack Mountains

By prominence Hough Peak is

# 57 out of 126 in High Peaks Wilderness
# 10 out of 24 in the Dix Range