23. Hadley Mountain 🏔️🚩

08 Jul, 2026

255 Tower Rd, Hadley, NY 12835

Hadley Mt. in the southern Adirondacks stands at 2,651 feet, and the hiking elevation gain is ≈ 1,500 feet. ↗️  Mount Everest is 11 times (11x) taller than li’l Hadley.  Hadley is one of the Adirondack Low Peaks under 4,000 feet.

It’s a short ascent & descent, about 3½ miles roundtrip up and down (out-and-back), containing lots of rocks and exposed bedrock — a slab walk.  Its wide-open bedrock summit offers sweeping panoramic mountain vistas and hosts a 40-foot fire tower. 🔭

The USGS marker disk on the summit is engraved with the name “WELLS PK” which stands for Wells Peak, an older historical name for Hadley.  Just a little FYI. ℹ️

Unfortunately, I missed seeing the Ranger’s/Observer’s Cabin, now the Summit Steward Quarters, near the top. 😔

22 pics:
 1 - prime rafting spot 🚣 

 2 - but I’m here for the hiking 🥾 

 3 - 🔥🗼 

 4 - only 1.8 miles, piece of cake 🍰 

 5 - call the rangers ☎️ or 911 🚨🆘 

 6 - there must be a heart-shaped ❤️ rock here for MJB 🔎 

 7 - relentless rocks 🪨 

 8 - trail is starting to open up 

 9 - one of many rock formations 

 10 - apex, zenith, pinnacle 🚩 

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 12 - survey marker lower-right corner 🟤 

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 19 - from halfway up the fire tower 🐔🐣 

 20 - 🔥🗼 view 

 21 - brass survey disk embedded in bedrock 🟤 

 22 - WELLS PK USGS 1942