Bearfort Mountain Explained

Bearfort Mountain
Other Name:	Bearfort Ridge
Location:	Passaic County, New Jersey, U.S.
Length Orientation:	north–south
Highest:	Bearfort Mountain
Elevation:	1460feet
Elevation Ref:	^[1]
Coordinates:	41.1395°N -74.3914°W
Geology:	Skunnemunk Conglomerate
Period:	Devonian

Bearfort Mountain, historically known as Bear Ford Mountain,^[1] is a mountain ridge located near Wawayanda State Park 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 1331feet the ridge is the site of a 68feet 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]

See also

• List of New Jersey Forest Fire Service fire towers

Notes and References

1. 874604. Bearfort Mountain . 2024-05-21.
2. 7119 . Bearfort Mountain, New Jersey . 2024-05-21.
3. Web site: State Line Trail/Ernest Walter Trail/A.T. Loop from Greenwood Lake Marina . New York–New Jersey Trail Conference.
4. Web site: Bearfort Mountain. . 2024-05-21.
5. National Historic Lookout Register, Bearfort Fire Tower US 244, NJ 6 . Retrieved 24 April 2015.
6. New Jersey Forest Fire Service, "Wildfire Suppression: Division A Fire Towers". Retrieved 24 April 2015.
7. Web site: Bareford Mountains, West Milford, New Jersey . Brooklyn Museum.