Algonquin Mountain, Lake Placid

Great winter hike, last last 1/2 mile exposed to the elements and a steep climb. Take a break at the beginning of wright trail before you head the rest of the way up Algonquin.

Very nice hike to both peaks, it is a 10 mile roundtrip hike with 3,600 feet of elevation gain. Wright Peak alone is a 7 mile hike with 2,500 feet of elevation gain. Usually, both can be done on the same hike as the same trail goes to both. Beautiful hike with some rock scrambles, not the easiest hike I have done, it's a lot of elevation in 5 miles. As an added bonus , close to the top of Wright Peak, you will find the remains of the B47 which crashed on returning from a training bombing run to Watertown from Plattsburg. Since they were mimicking bombing runs over the Soviet Union, they were supposed to drop the pretend atomic bomb over Watertown around 2 AM and then fly back at relatively low altitude to avoid radars. This was in the days before GPS, when they had to plot their direction on paper and take into consideration the speed of the wind and so forth. Add to that jet engines which took a long time to accelerate, compound it with a snows storm in January 1962 and you have a catastrophe in the making. By the time the plane was by Wright Peak, it was something like 40 miles off course and they hit that granite formation about 100 feet off the top of Wright Peak at over 500 mph. Even if they could have seen the peak which I doubt they did in the last seconds, they couldn't have done anything since the engines would have taken time to respond. The crew was probably tired, stressed from the weather conditions, anxiously waiting to land to have a warm breakfast and they were gone the next millisecond....

What a great view and a wonderful hike! Came up from Avalanche and down by Wright to make a big long loop.

Not an easy hike to the top. But the views totally worth it. Highly recommend to go early in the morning to get parking cause it fill up quickly

Be prepared! At 5000 and change, the second peak in the Adirondacks will definitely challenge hikers just starting out. Hiking poles are recommended getting down the steep slopes. Total trip through Algonquin is about 10 miles out and back. We had take. The long way back to get a view of the lake overlooking the other peaks. All in all, a great hike experience.