According to the USGS GNIS, the state of New York in the United States has 11 peaks named Bear Mountain. The most widely known is in the Hudson Highlands of Orange County, just north of the New York metropolitan area and from which the name for Bear Mountain State Park is derived.
| Name | USGS link | State | County | Coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Mountain | New York | Clinton | 44°28′49″N 073°54′50″W / 44.48028°N 73.91389°W / 44.48028; -73.91389 | |
| Bear Mountain | New York | Essex | 43°49′37″N 073°27′22″W / 43.82694°N 73.45611°W / 43.82694; -73.45611 | |
| Bear Mountain | New York | Essex | 43°51′46″N 073°38′43″W / 43.86278°N 73.64528°W / 43.86278; -73.64528 | |
| Bear Mountain | New York | Essex | 44°03′02″N 073°43′16″W / 44.05056°N 73.72111°W / 44.05056; -73.72111 | |
| Bear Mountain | New York | Hamilton | 43°24′33″N 074°24′18″W / 43.40917°N 74.405°W / 43.40917; -74.405 | |
| Bear Mountain | New York | Orange | 41°18′46″N 074°00′24″W / 41.31278°N 74.00667°W / 41.31278; -74.00667 | |
| Bear Mountain | New York | Lawrence | 44°10′11″N 074°44′09″W / 44.16972°N 74.73583°W / 44.16972; -74.73583 | |
| Bear Mountain | New York | Lawrence | 44°11′45″N 074°48′43″W / 44.19583°N 74.81194°W / 44.19583; -74.81194 | |
| Bear Mountain | New York | Lawrence | 44°18′28″N 074°57′15″W / 44.30778°N 74.95417°W / 44.30778; -74.95417 | |
| Bear Mountain | New York | Lawrence | 44°31′22″N 074°38′37″W / 44.52278°N 74.64361°W / 44.52278; -74.64361 | |
| Bear Mountain | New York | Warren | 43°24′05″N 073°55′12″W / 43.40139°N 73.92°W / 43.40139; -73.92 |
| This set index article includes a list of mountains that share the same name (or similar names). |
Famous quotes containing the words bear and/or mountain:
“Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.”
—Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978)
“I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)