"Was a Saranac Lake carnival day, parade, castle and fireworks as well as got my grandson Grayson up his first firetower in the ADK, we all had a great day with a bonus dinner at Big Slide in Placid with a snowy drive home" — ramjet1963 • Feb 8, 2025

"Dean and Katie hiked with me today on a beautiful blue sky day with temps around 30. Belfry is the shortest fire tower hike in NYS at only .8 miles r/t. A quick up and down and then off to Cheney Mtn just a short drive away." — garyogden • Feb 25, 2024

"My daughter wanted to celebrate her 8th bday by hiking up to the fire tower. It was a beautiful day to visit with clear views. The leaves are just past peak but still beautiful. We explored the woods right around and found some neat things around there. (If you are into geocaching you do not want to miss the treat up here.)" — jan2ny • Oct 18, 2022

"A quick saunter up to Belfry, since I was in the area and looking for some mountain views and time to kill on a beautiful fall day. was here once in 2018 when I was chasing the fire tower challenge patch, An easy climb for any age with some amazing views into the high peaks of the Adirondack Park N.Y." — ramjet1963 • Oct 11, 2022

"The trailhead was off of Exit 30 of I87, but the direct road to the trailhead was closed, so we needed to take a lengthy detour to get to it. The “trail” consisted primarily of a gravel roadway presumably used to gain access to a radio tower a short distance from the firetower. Easy grades and only 0.35 miles each way. We did the round trip and spent 10 minutes at the summit for a total start to finish time of 22 minutes. Nice views from the firetower cab with Lake Champlain visible as well as several High Peaks. " — TJandMS • Aug 23, 2021

"Was one of the shortest hikes i can ever say i was on but a good filler concidering it was my third climb of the day and a fire tower bonus, great weather but cold -17c but dressed perfectly No spikes,snowshoes or poles needed. Awesome day on the trails" — ramjet1963 • Jan 13, 2019

"Belfry Mountain January 3rd, 2019 11:02a Well this is gonna be a short one, we started our hike at about 10:50a-ish and made it to the top in what seemed like 5 minutes. Belfry is definitely on my top 5 list of favorite mountains because of that. When we started I had my microspikes on but my friend Ben did not so he was slipping all over the place due to the amount of powder-snow covering a thick smooth layer of ice. When we reached the top we went up into the fire tower took some pictures, hung out and now we are ready to head back down about 30 minutes later or so, we spent more time in the tower than doing the actual hike. 11:36a We are now back down to the car, the hike down was a bit rougher. We ended up sliding down most of it and I actually at one point slipped, fell and landed on my elbow. (Even as I sit at home typing this for my electronic copy it is swollen and hurts a lot.) We eventually made it out but we had a lot of fun. One and a half hour drive for 45 minutes of playing in a tower and in the snow… worth it." — devenmosher24 • Jan 3, 2019

"A great little hike on a gravel road. This has to be the easiest fire tower to visit. Was surprised by the nice views from the tower. Wear your tin foil hat..the microwave tower is close." — pawsalot • Sep 6, 2018

"2nd solo summit of the day. If you could call it a summit! Glad I decided to stop by after doing Hurricane as this "hike" was an easy jaunt up a dirt road. There was an unfortunate amount of litter on the walk as well as at the summit. I took some empty cans back with me. Very beautiful views though! " — kellieirene • Nov 23, 2015

"Not much happened out there. I stopped on my way home from visiting my mom & ran up the access road to the tower. Nice views of Lake Champlain, Green Mts., & The Adirondacks." — billsussdorff • Sep 17, 2015