Bearfort Mountain, historically known as Bear Ford Mountain, is a mountain ridge extending from Wawayanda State Park northward through Abram S. Hewitt State Forest in West Milford, Passaic County, New Jersey. It is a continuation of Bellvale Mountain in New York. The Appalachian Trail crosses along the ridge into New York. Puddingstone of the Skunnemunk Conglomerate is visible along the ridge.
At an elevation of the ridge is the site of a high fire lookout tower built by the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.National Historic Lookout Register, Bearfort Fire Tower US 244, NJ 6 . Retrieved 24 April 2015.New Jersey Forest Fire Service, "Wildfire Suppression: Division A Fire Towers". Retrieved 24 April 2015.
The mountain was depicted in an 1850 painting by Jasper Francis Cropsey, an American landscape artist of the Hudson River School.
See also List of New Jersey Forest Fire Service fire towers
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