Dial Mountain is a mountain

Mountain

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 located in Essex County

Essex County, New York

Essex County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 39,370. Its name is from the English county of Essex. Its county seat is Elizabethtown...

, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

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The mountain is part of the Colvin Range.
Dial Mountain is flanked to the southwest by Nippletop

Nippletop

Nippletop is a mountain located in Essex County, New York.The mountain is part of the Colvin Range.Nippletop is flanked to the northeast by Dial Mountain....

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Dial Mountain stands within the watershed

Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...

 of Lake Champlain

Lake Champlain

Lake Champlain is a natural, freshwater lake in North America, located mainly within the borders of the United States but partially situated across the Canada—United States border in the Canadian province of Quebec.The New York portion of the Champlain Valley includes the eastern portions of...

, which drains into Canada

Canada

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's Richelieu River

Richelieu River

The Richelieu River is a river in Quebec, Canada. It flows from the north end of Lake Champlain about north, ending at the confluence with the St. Lawrence River at Sorel-Tracy, Quebec downstream and northeast of Montreal...

, the Saint Lawrence River

Saint Lawrence River

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, and into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence

Gulf of Saint Lawrence

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The west side of Dial Mountain drains into Gill Brook, thence into the East Branch of Ausable River, and into Lake Champlain.
The southeast side of Dial Mountain drains into the headwaters of the North Fork of the Boquet River, thence into Lake Champlain.
The northeast side of Dial Mountain drains into Gravestone Brook, thence into the North Fork of the Boquet River.

See also

• List of mountains in New York
• Northeast 111
  Northeast 111
  The Northeast 111 is a peak-bagging list of 4000-foot mountains in the northeastern states of the United States. It includes the sixty-seven 4000-footers of New England , the 46 Adirondack High Peaks, and Slide and Hunter Mountain, both in the Catskills of New York.This list includes 115 peaks...
  
   4,000-footers
• Adirondack High Peaks
• Adirondack Forty-Sixers
  Adirondack Forty-Sixers
  The Adirondack Forty-Sixers are an organization of hikers who have climbed all forty-six of the traditionally recognized High Peaks of the Adirondack Mountains. They are often referred to just as 46ers.- Origins :...