Bearfort Mountain

Bearfort Mountain
Bearfort Ridge
Bearfort Mountain (left), Bellvale Mountain (right)
Highest point
Peak	Bearfort Mountain
Elevation	1,460 feet (445 m) [1]
Coordinates	41°08′22″N74°23′29″W / 41.1395480°N 74.3914109°W / 41.1395480; -74.3914109 [1]
Geography
Location	Passaic County, New Jersey, U.S. [2]
Geology
Rock age	Devonian
Rock type	Skunnemunk Conglomerate

Bearfort Mountain, historically known as Bear Ford Mountain, ^[1] is a mountain ridge extending from Wawayanda State Park northward through Abram S. Hewitt State Forest in West Milford, Passaic County, New Jersey. ^[2] It is a continuation of Bellvale Mountain in New York. The Appalachian Trail crosses along the ridge into New York. ^[3] Puddingstone of the Skunnemunk Conglomerate is visible along the ridge. ^[4]

At an elevation of 1,331 feet (406 m) the ridge is the site of a 68 feet (21 m) high fire lookout tower built by the New Jersey Forest Fire Service. ^{[5] [6]}

The mountain was depicted in an 1850 painting by Jasper Francis Cropsey, an American landscape artist of the Hudson River School. ^[7]

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  Bearfort Ridge Fire Tower
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  Bareford Mountains, West Milford, New Jersey by Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1850

See also

• List of New Jersey Forest Fire Service fire towers

References

1. "Bearfort Mountain". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 2024-05-21.
2. "Bearfort Mountain, New Jersey". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
3. "State Line Trail/Ernest Walter Trail/A.T. Loop from Greenwood Lake Marina". New York–New Jersey Trail Conference.
4. "Bearfort Mountain". U.S. Geological Survey . Retrieved 2024-05-21.
5. National Historic Lookout Register, Bearfort Fire Tower US 244, NJ 6 Archived 2015-09-30 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved 24 April 2015.
6. New Jersey Forest Fire Service, "Wildfire Suppression: Division A Fire Towers". Retrieved 24 April 2015.
7. "Bareford Mountains, West Milford, New Jersey". Brooklyn Museum.