Today, Gore Mountain is managed by the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA), which also manages Gore, Whiteface, and Belleayre Mountains, and the Lake Placid Olympic venues. The famous ski trains that shaped the early development of skiing at Gore Mountain were inspired by organizer Vincent Schaefer’s trip to the 1932 Lake Placid Winter Games. North Creek, at the base of Gore Mountain, was home to one of the first commercial ski areas, and ski patrols, in the United States. Gore, Bear, Burnt Ridge, and Little Gore together make up the largest amount of skiable terrain in New York State. Gore Mountain is actually four, now well developed, peaks.
There was another gore south of Schroon Lake, part of a Brant Lake Tract misalignment. The Southeastern Adirondacks actually had several gores on old maps as new tracts of land were laid out that didn’t quite connect with others. It was in or near this gore – a surveyor’s term indicating an unmapped triangular or tapered area between two surveyed areas that does not connect (or close) along a common line – that the mountain sat. As colonial surveyor Verplanck Colvin put it “the highest point always seemed to disappear in the intricate group of peaks of which the mountain was composed.”Īs the area around the mountain was increasingly surveyed, a “gore” developed between two large tracts of land, Hyde’s Patent, and the southeast line of the Totten & Crossfield Purchase.
When the earliest Adirondack maps were drawn, Gore Mountain’s true summit could not be clearly identified.
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