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060203 VLP Palmer, Belfry Towers.Qxd Palmer Hill & Belfry Mountain Two short fire-tower trips Words & pictures by LEE MANCHESTER, Lake Placid News, February 3, 2006 Essex County has an extraordi- really be called “strolls” — run up rainfall each year than anywhere else narily wide range of fire towers that graded dirt maintenance roads. in New York state. Fire observers enthusiasts can visit. One of them is the tower atop needed to keep a lookout there in the Several provide the best views Belfry Mountain, outside the hamlet early spring and late autumn, but the you can get from the south of the of Witherbee, in Moriah township. snows on Whiteface summit prevent- central High Peaks: Vanderwhacker The other is the Palmer Hill fire ed the manning of that station in Minerva township, and tower, outside Au Sable Forks. between October and March. The Newcomb’s Goodnow and Adams. tower on Palmer Hill, opened in In central Essex County, two tow- Palmer Hill 1930, was first manned by Whiteface ers offer hikers a hard bargain: tough The Palmer Hill fire tower (eleva- observers. climbs in exchange for great views. tion 1,146 feet) is not really in Essex The tower was closed in 1974, One of those towers is on Poke-O- County at all, but its Essex ties are when aerial fire spotters first began Moonshine, south of Keeseville, in strong. displacing observers on the ground, Chesterfield township. The other is For one, its host community is Au but was re-opened in 1978 and con- the embattled Hurricane Mountain Sable Forks, which straddles the Au tinued operating through 1988. tower, standing on the town border Sable River and the Clinton-Essex Today, the Palmer Hill fire tower is between Keene and Elizabethtown. county line, equally a part of both in private hands. The owner leases But Essex County also has two counties. space on its supports to National Grid, more of these old Adirondack sen- For another, the Palmer Hill fire the successor company to Niagara tinels still standing. Neither of them tower was built as a backup for the Mohawk, for radio antennaes. attract anything like the attention tower on Whiteface Mountain, in brought by the others. They rise from Essex County. Visiting Palmer Hill relatively low prominences. The The area to the north and east of To visit Palmer Hill from Lake “hikes” to visit them — they should Whiteface is very dry, getting less Placid, take Route 86 through Restoration: Three images from a trip taken in the summer of 2004 show the Palmer Hill fire tower's appearance after the phone lines and antennae are "photoshopped" away, leaving the tower looking much as it did when fire observers of yore kept watch over the Adirondack Forest Preserve from the tower's cab. Wilmington to Jay. Turn left at the great. The tall pines that have grown more so because the effort required to Jay Green onto Route 9N, which up around the summit impair what summit this little mountain (elevation runs along the East Branch of the Au might otherwise be a great vista 1,863 feet) is so minimal. Sable River into Au Sable Forks. looking west-southwest toward Because the walk up the Belfry Cross the unincorporated village’s Whiteface and Esther mountains. Mountain access road is so short and Main Street bridge and continue For many, however, even without so easy, this is a great spot from straight through the caution light at being able to climb the tower, the trip which to get a panoramic winter the Stewart’s Shops store. At the next up Palmer Hill is worth the short view of the High Peaks, especially corner, turn left toward Black Brook walk, just to pay homage to another for those who are not prepared to and Union Falls. one of the surviving old guardians of hike deep into the Great Range in the Go past a cemetery on the left to a the Adirondack forest. depth of winter — all of this assum- fork in the road, where you will bear ing, of course, that winter ever right toward Palmer Hill and Belfry Mountain returns this year. Harkness. After half a mile you will The view from Belfry, on the other The state first stationed a fire see the street sign for Tower Road, hand, is truly amazing — perhaps observer atop Belfry in 1912. The where you’ll turn left. At 0.9 miles, Tower Road itself curves left — but to the right, you will see a metal gate. Park your car there and head up the maintenance road to the top, a jaunt of about an eighth of a mile. At the summit you’ll find a clear- ing. Off to one side is the old fire tower, a metal sheath screening the lower three flights of stairs and preventing anyone from climbing to the top. If you look to the left, just before entering the clearing, you will see two “No Trespassing” signs nailed to a tree — and for good reason. In the Seventies, when the Palmer Hill fire tower was closed for 4 years, this site was heavily vandalized. The observer’s cabin, which once stood at the foot of the tower, had to be cart- ed off by the DEC in the mid-1970s to prevent it from being completely destroyed. And since the fire tower’s final closure in 1988, the somewhat remote clearing has served as the site of many an underaged drinking party, complete with dangerous bon- fires. If you visit Palmer Hill, please abide by the owner’s wishes: Observe, but stay away from the tower itself. The view from the top of Palmer Hill — particularly without access to the cab atop the tower — is not that The "trail" to the Belfry Mountain fire tower is a maintenance road, and not a very pretty one at that — but it is plowed and sanded, making for safe climbing. summit, which had been clear cut, door and windows; another story (On your way back to Lake was a pasture; no tower was needed says that it was taken down some- Placid, notice the tenements on either to scan 360 degrees around the time in the mid-1980s to ensure that side of Witherbee Road. Built by mountain. The 47-foot steel tower it didn’t fall down on someone. In Witherbee Sherman as housing for and cab found there today were not any case, all you’ll find today on the its workers, they were constructed built until 1917, and then mostly to summit near the tower are the cabin’s with concrete blocks made using give the fire observer protection from foundations. Moriah iron tailings, incredibly the elements. When you climb Belfry’s small dense and very durable.) The Belfry Mountain fire obser- tower, the first thing you’ll see to the Beyond Witherbee, the view from vation station was closed in 1988. east is the hamlet of Witherbee and, the Belfry tower reaches eastward to Essex County now uses the tower as nearby, several huge cones of debris. the Green Mountains of Vermont. To a platform for radio antennaes. These are tailings piles, left over the northwest, you’ll see Hurricane An early cabin for the Belfry fire from the days when the Witherbee Mountain and, farther off, Whiteface. observers was built at the mountain’s Sherman Mining Company (and, To the west is Rocky Ridge and foot in 1934. Later, another one was later, Republic Steel) operated a huge Giant; to the southwest, Dix and the built higher up, at the base of the network of iron mines in Moriah Great Range; and to the south-south- tower. According to one account, that township. The mines were still being west, Pharaoh Mountain in Schroon cabin was still there in 1992, sans worked as late as the 1970s. township. LEFT, the fire tower on Palmer Hill. RIGHT, the tower on Belfry Mountain. Visiting Belfry Mountain as good resources for information on Districts” (2005). To reach Belfry Mountain from New York’s fire towers: The Adirondack Architectural Lake Placid, head down Route 73 • The best fire-tower trail guide is Heritage Web site (aarch.org) has through Keene and Keene Valley. the ADK’s “Views from on High: information on fire towers from a Immediately after you pass under the Fire Tower Trails in the Adirondacks preservationist point of view. Northway, take the first left onto and Catskills,” by John P. Freeman One more resource worth men- Tracy Road (Route 6). After driving (2001). tioning is a report titled “The Future 7.7 miles, you will reach the stop • A good survey of all the stand- of Adirondack Fire Towers,” issued sign at Witherbee Road (Route 70) ing fire towers throughout the state is at the end of 2004 by the environ- on the edge of Witherbee hamlet. Paul Laskey’s “The Fire Observation mentalist Residents’ Committee to Turn left and go just 1 more mile, Towers of New York State” (2003). Protect the Adirondacks. The report where you will see a DEC trail mark- • The most comprehensive collec- is available free on the Web as a PDF er on the left for the Hammond Pond tion of oral histories from fire download from www.rcpa.org. Wild Forest; parking is on the right observers and rangers is Marty (opposite) side of the road. Podskoch’s three-volume series, the TOP, panoramic view looking west- As the trail marker indicates, the final installment of which is ward from the fire tower cab on Belfry. BELOW, view from the cab looking climb to the Belfry Mountain fire “Adirondack Fire Towers, Their east over the hamlet of Witherbee and tower is just 0.4 miles.
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