Hough Peak

Hough Peak
Hough Peak (center) seen from the ridge to Dix Mt.
Highest point
Elevation	4,409 ft (1,344 m) ^[1]
Prominence	374 ft (114 m) ^[1]
Listing	Adirondack High Peaks
Coordinates	44°04′10″N 73°46′39″W / 44.0694981°N 73.7776352°W / 44.0694981; -73.7776352Coordinates: 44°04′10″N 73°46′39″W / 44.0694981°N 73.7776352°W / 44.0694981; -73.7776352 ^[2]
Geography
Location	North Hudson, Essex County, New York
Parent range	Dix Range
Topo map	USGS Mount Marcy
Climbing
Easiest route	Dix Range Herd Path

Hough Peak (pronounced "huff") 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.

Notes

The High Peaks of New York's Adirondack Mountains

Northern Adirondacks	Esther Whiteface

Eastern Adirondacks	Giant Rocky Peak

Colvin Range	Blake Colvin Dial Nippletop

Dix Range	Dix Grace Peak South Dix Hough Macomb

Northern High Peaks	Big Slide Cascade Phelps Porter Table Top

Marcy Group	Allen Cliff Colden Gray Haystack Marcy Redfield Skylight

Other Great Range	Armstrong Basin Gothics Saddleback Sawteeth Lower Wolfjaw Upper Wolfjaw

MacIntyre Mountains	Algonquin Iroquois Marshall Wright

Santanoni Mountains	Couchsachraga Panther Santanoni

Seward Mountains	Donaldson Emmons Seward Seymour

Street Range	(MacNaughton) Nye Street

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