Blue Mountain Lake (Lake, New York)

Blue Mountain Lake
	Blue Mountain Lake from Blue Mountain . The Eckford chain of lakes is at the top left
Geographical location	Hamilton County , New York (state) , USA
Drain	Marion River → Raquette River
Islands	Long Island, Osprey Island
Places on the shore	Blue Mountain Lake (hamlet)
	Data
Coordinates	43 ° 51 '40 " N , 74 ° 27' 29" W Coordinates: 43 ° 51 '40 " N , 74 ° 27' 29" W.
Altitude above sea level	550 m
surface	5.4 km²
length	4 km
width	2.01 km
Maximum depth	30 m

The Blue Mountain Lake is a 520-hectare lake in Hamilton County in the central Adirondacks . Blue Mountain Lake is the eastern end of the Eckford chain of lakes. The hamlet of Blue Mountain Lake sits on its southeast shore, and the Adirondack Museum looks high over its east shore. It has been a popular holiday destination since the mid-19th century.

fishing

Fish species in the lake include lake trout, rainbow trout, black bass, landlocked salmon and smelt. There is a fee to access two private marinas in Blue Mountain Lake Village. There are also boat rentals.

history

The Blue Mountain Lake House was built by John G. Holland in 1874. Soon after, a former resident, Miles Tyler Merwin, enlarged his log cabin on a spur of Blue Mountain overlooking the lake to the Blue Mountain home; The Log Hotel is now on the site of the Adirondack Museum. In 1881 Frederick C. Durant, cousin of William West Durant , built the Prospect House, the most luxurious hotel that existed in the Adirondacks at the time; It was the first hotel in the world to have electric light in every room.

From Blue Mountain in winter
Prospect House, 1889
( Seneca Ray Stoddard )
The Log Hotel on Blue Mountain Lake
Small steamship Towahloondah, 1889 (Seneca Ray Stoddard)
Adirondack tourist boat, 1911
Blue Mountain Lake from the Adirondack Museum

Trivia

The singer Hermann Weil drowned on July 6, 1949 in Blue Mountain Lake.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Sportsman's Connection (Firm): Central Southeastern Adirondacks New York fishing map guide: includes lakes & streams for the following counties: Fulton, Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren, Washington. Ed .: Sportsman's Connection. 2011, ISBN 978-1-885010-66-7 (English, worldcat.org ).
^ Donaldson, Alfred L. History of the Adirondacks , New York: The Century Co., 1921, p. 103.

[1] Sportsman's Connection (Firm): Central Southeastern Adirondacks New York fishing map guide: includes lakes & streams for the following counties: Fulton, Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren, Washington. Ed .: Sportsman's Connection. 2011, ISBN 978-1-885010-66-7 (English, worldcat.org ).

[2] Donaldson, Alfred L. History of the Adirondacks , New York: The Century Co., 1921, p. 103.