Humble little Jones Hill, an 1,880-foot bump in the town of Schroon, doesn’t draw much attention—just yet.
A mountain in hiking limbo, with trails sketched in from two separate directions, neither of them complete, it fell victim to the state’s ill-fated plans for snowmobile connector trails that were ruled overly intrusive on the wilderness in May of 2021 by the courts. The state’s response was to halt most all trail building and the project languished.
But Jones Hill is to be part of the North Country Scenic Trail (NCST), a 4,600-mile odyssey from North Dakota to Vermont, loosely bisecting the Adirondack Park. Seven miles of it will traverse Jones Hill,
