Located east of Blue Mountain Lake, Hamilton County, the peak reaches a height of 3,750 ft (1,140 m).

[2] It is the location of the Blue Mountain Fire Observation Station, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

The United States Air Force developed and deployed what where known as "gap-filler" radar stations, which had a range of around 65 miles (105 km).

One of these stations was built on Blue Mountain and became operational in January 1959 and was decommissioned in December 1967.

The FFLA, Team Rubicon, and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation did significant restoration work on the tower in 2019.