Mount Redfield

Mount Redfield
Mount Redfield
Location of Mount Redfield within New York
Mount Redfield
Mount Redfield (the United States)
Highest point
Elevation4,606 ft (1,404 m) NGVD 29
ListingAdirondack High Peaks 15th
Coordinates44°05′41″N 73°57′00″W / 44.094777°N 73.949866°W / 44.094777; -73.949866
Geography
LocationKeene, Essex County, New York
Parent rangeMarcy Group of the Great Range
Topo mapUSGS Mount Marcy
Climbing
First ascent1894 by Ed Phelps and party

Mount Redfield is a mountain in the Adirondacks in the U.S. state of New York. It is the 15th-highest peak in New York, with an elevation of 4,606 feet (1,404 m), and one of the 46 High Peaks in Adirondack Park. It is located in the town of Keene in Essex County, near Cliff Mountain and Mount Skylight. Surveyor Verplanck Colvin named the mountain after William C. Redfield, organizer and member of an expedition to Mount Marcy in 1837, and the first to guess that Marcy was the highest peak in the Adirondacks, and therefore in New York. The earliest recorded ascent was made in 1894 by mountain guide Ed Phelps and a guest whose name has not been recorded.

There is no maintained trail on the mountain, but an unmarked trail begins at the Uphill Lean-to along the Calamity Brook Trail, and proceeds along Uphill Brook and a tributary stream to the summit.