{{Short description|Mountain in the United States}} {{Use American English|date=February 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox mountain | name = South Dix | image = South Dix (Carson Peak).jpeg | image_caption = South Dix (center) photographed from Mount Haystack | map = New York Adirondack Park#USA | map_caption = Location of South Dix within New York | elevation_ft = 4060 | elevation_ref = {{NGVD29}}<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Goodwin |editor1-first=Tony |title=Adirondack trails. High peaks region |date=2021 |publisher=Adirondack Mountain Club |isbn=9780998637181 |edition=15th |pages=286–287}}</ref> <!-- | prominence_ft = 164 | prominence_ref = <ref name="pb"> {{cite peakbagger | pid = 6091 | name = South Dix, New York | access-date = 2010-05-17 }}</ref>--><!--prominence data was previously sourced from peakbagger.com. Seeking a better source.--> | listing = Adirondack High Peaks 37th<ref>{{cite web |title=The Peaks – Adirondack 46ers |url=https://adk46er.org/peaks/ |website=adk46er.org |access-date=30 May 2024}}</ref> | location = North Hudson, Essex County, New York | range = Dix Range | coordinates = {{coord|44.060054|N|73.7743014|W|type:mountain_region:US-NY_scale:100000_source:GNIS|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | range_coordinates = | coordinates_ref = <ref name="gnis"> {{cite gnis | id = 965737 | name = South Dix | access-date = 2010-05-17 }}</ref> | topo = USGS Mount Marcy, NY | type = | age = | first_ascent = 1913, by Samuel R. Lockwood<ref name="Sasso">{{cite journal |last1=Sasso |first1=John |title=Rise of the Adirondack High Peaks: The Story of the Inception of the Adirondack Forty-Six by Robert Marshall, George Marshall, and Russell M.L. Carson |journal=Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies |date=1 January 2018 |volume=22 |issue=1 |url=https://digitalworks.union.edu/ajes/vol22/iss1/8/ |access-date=2 February 2025 |issn=1075-0436}}</ref> | easiest_route = Hike }}
'''South Dix''' is a mountain in the Dix Range of the Adirondacks in the U.S. state of New York. It is the 37th-highest of the Adirondack High Peaks, with an elevation of {{convert|4060|ft|m}}. It is located in the town of North Hudson in Essex County. The mountain is named after former New York Governor John A. Dix. This name first appeared in print in a 1921 pamphlet by Bob Marshall.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marshall |first1=Bob |title=The high peaks of the Adirondacks |date=1921 |publisher=The Adirondack Mountain Club |location=Albany, New York |page=34 |url=https://archive.org/details/highpeaksofadiro01mars/page/34/mode/2up}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Russell M. L. |title=Peaks and People of the Adirondacks |date=1927 |publisher=Doubleday |location=Garden City |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tSsqAQAAMAAJ |isbn=9781404751200 |page=223}}</ref> The name is being changed to '''Carson Peak''', after Russell M.L. Carson (1884–1961), who popularized the High Peaks with his book, ''Peaks and People of the Adirondacks''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adk46r.org/Grace%20Spring%2004.html |title=Grace Peak Committee Report Spring 2004 |date=12 July 2004 |author=Doug Arnold and Sue Franklin |access-date=2007-11-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050218054534/http://www.adk46r.org/Grace%20Spring%2004.html |archive-date=February 18, 2005 }}</ref> The earliest recorded ascent of the mountain was made in 1913 by Samuel R. Lockwood.<ref name="Sasso" />
South Dix is flanked to the northeast by Grace Peak (formerly known as East Dix), to the northwest by Hough Peak, and to the southwest by Macomb Mountain. The summit can be reached by unmarked hiking trails that cross the entire Dix Range, forming a loop. The Hunters Pass Trail begins at the Elk Lake parking lot and continues north for {{convert|2.3|mi|km}} to Slide Brook. At the brook, an unmarked trail branches east, following the brook to the base of a large slide on the western face of Macomb Mountain. The summit is at the top of the slide. The unmarked Dix Range Crest Path continues from the summit to South Dix and the other peaks in the Dix Range.<ref name="Goodwin" /> The Hunters Pass Trail crosses private land and is closed during the big game hunting season. In the winter, the road to the Elk Lake parking lot is closed, and hikers must begin at the upper parking lot, {{convert|2.6|mi|km}} to the south.<ref name="Goodwin">{{cite book |editor1-last=Goodwin |editor1-first=Tony |title=Adirondack trails. High peaks region |date=2021 |publisher=Adirondack Mountain Club |isbn=9780998637181 |edition=15th |pages=206, 208–211}}</ref>
== See also == * List of mountains in New York * Northeast 111 4,000-footers * Adirondack High Peaks * Adirondack Forty-Sixers
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== External links == *[https://dec.ny.gov/things-to-do/hiking/adirondack-backcountry/backcountry-information-for-adirondack-park Backcountry information for Adirondack Park] at ''dec.ny.gov'' *[https://www.lakeplacid.com/hiking/the-dix-range Dix Range hiking guide] at ''lakeplacid.com'' *[https://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=6091 South Dix geography] at ''peakbagger.com'' *[https://www.summitpost.org/page/150685 South Dix description] at ''summitpost.org''
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