Coney Mountain: The Great View that underpins Adirondack Maps
Channel: Hike Long Lake
Date: 2022-11-20

Coney Mountain, halfway between Long Lake and Tupper Lake on Rte. 30, offers a fantastic 360 degree view after a climb of just over one mile. It is a very popular hiking destination. Less well known is the pivotal role that Coney played in the surveys that allocated land ownership in the Adirondack wilderness. The northern edge of the Totten and Crossfield Patent, now a boundary between several of the counties that make up the Adirondack Park, goes right over the top of Coney Mountain. 

The story of the early surveys that literally put Coney on the map has been told and retold. My sources include, Lost Brook Dispatches, Adirondack Almanack and The Adirondack Reader, (by Adirondack Mountain Club (Author), Paul Jamieson (Editor), Neal Burdick (Editor)).

The map of Adirondack Survey Sketch in Colors Showing the Location of the Great Land Patents. Verplanck Colvin, Adirondack Survey, 1873.

https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2013/02/lost-brook-dispatches-campbells-corner.html