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 NEW YORK STATE WORLD WAR MEMORIAL HIGHWAY - Wilmington, NY Posted by:  nomadwillie
N 44° 23.396 W 073° 49.355
18T E 593777 N 4915858
Conceived and initiated prior to the Great Depression, Whiteface Castle and the Whiteface Mountain Veterans Memorial Highway were funded entirely by the state of New York.
Waymark Code: WM174EW
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 12/09/2022
Views: 1
In WILMINGTON, 5.3 m. (1,020 alt.,574 pop.), is the junction with
the NEW YORK STATE WORLD WAR MEMORIAL HIGHWAY
(open all year; tolls, adults $1, children 50¢).
Right here up a serpentine mountain road to the parking area on WHITEFACE
MOUNTAIN (4,872 alt.), 5 m. At the parking area, a few hundred feet below the
summit, is the entrance to the elevator (ascent 15¢, descent 10¢) that rises through a
giant shaft cut through the core of the mountain to a stone lookout tower at the summit, which can also be reached on foot over stairs and rock trails. The tower with a
circle of windows is perched like a skull cap on the brow of the white mountain face.
Unlike Mount Marcy and the other high peaks, Whiteface is isolated, so that on
clear days almost the entire northern part of the State is visible from its summit. To
the south rises the humpy McIntyre Range; on the east stretches the irregular, gleaming spread of Lake Champlain, with the Green Mountains beyond; to the north is
Mount Royal in Canada, marked by the pall of smoke over Montreal; and to the west
is the St.Lawrence, and the rolling ridges that flatten out toward Lake Ontario.
Weather instruments are anchored to knobs of rock on the eastern slope, and a radio
station in the tower reports temperatures and atmospheric changes.
A State constitutional amendment was passed to permit construction of this
$1,250,000 road over State-owned forest land.
American-Guide-Series - New York: a Guide to the Empire State, p.505 (1940)
Have passed this entrance many times. One of my Grand Tours had the summit of the mountain as a place to capture points, so this time I descended the mountain. Great ride up the mountain.
Book: New York
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 505
Year Originally Published: 1940
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