Mount Colvin

{{short description|Mountain in New York, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{more citations needed|date=April 2020}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Mount Colvin

| photo = Lower Ausable Lake view of Mt Colvin.jpg

| photo_caption = Mt. Colvin seen from Lower Ausable Lake

| map = New York Adirondack Park#USA

| map_caption = Location of Mount Colvin within New York

| elevation_ft = 4,057

| elevation_ref = {{NGVD29}}{{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}}

| listing = Adirondack High Peaks 39th{{cite web |title=The Peaks – Adirondack 46ers |url=https://adk46er.org/peaks/ |website=adk46er.org |access-date=30 May 2024}}

| location = Keene, New York, U.S.

| range = Adirondacks

| coordinates = {{coord|44|05|38|N|73|50|04|W |type:mountain_region:US |display=inline,title}}

| coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis |id=947211 |name=Mount Colvin |access-date=May 30, 2024}}

| topo = USGS Mount Marcy

| first_ascent = August 20, 1873, by Verplanck Colvin, Mills Blake, Charles H. Peck, Orson Schofield Phelps, Eli Chase, and Henry Reed{{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 |pages=172–180}}

| easiest_route = Hike

}}

Mount Colvin is the 39th highest peak in the High Peaks Region of the Adirondack Mountains in the U.S. State of New York. Mount Colvin offers excellent views of a number of other Adirondack High Peaks, most notably the peaks that comprise the Great Range. High Peaks that are readily visible from Colvin include Giant, Rocky Peak Ridge, Upper Wolfjaw, Lower Wolfjaw, Armstrong, Sawteeth, Gothics, Saddleback, Basin, Tabletop, Marcy, Haystack, Redfield, Allen, Nippletop, Dial and Blake.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

The mountain is named after Verplanck Colvin, an explorer of the Adirondacks and the director of the survey which mapped the region. Originally named Mount Sabele and unknown to Colvin, he deferred to a survey team member to name it. The member chose Mount Colvin to honor his leader.