Now High Tor may meet with the same fate. Some years ago a company mined the mountain south, leaving only a false front. “Towering above the Hudson River stands a magnificent headland, High Tor, which has been known to river folk ever since Hudson first sailed up the river. The story, as told by the Dramatists Play Service, begins as follows: Anderson wove an intricate tale of bribery and the supernatural and eventually prompted the Palisades Interstate Park Commission to save the mountain from industry shovels. Traprock, now called Tilcon, had already tore down the peak directly south of High Tor. This portion is composed primarily of 900 acres of overgrown fields with steep wooded hillsides.Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, author, poet, reporter and lyricist Maxwell Anderson, came to the aid of High Tor Mountain in 1936 when he wrote an immensely popular verse play of the same name, “High Tor.” The United States Traprock Company was interested in purchasing the peak at the time and planned to remove the rear side of the mountain for the aggregate it contained. East of the southern end of Canandaigua Lake is a third part of the area known as South Hill. This area is drained by the famous Naples Creek. Immediately north of this area are about 2,200 acres of lowland marsh, forested wetland, and grassland which lies between State Routes 21 and 245, bordering Canandaigua Lake and extending up West River valley. It is intersected by administrative truck trails usable as foot access to the more remote sections of the area. The largest part of High Tor WMA is approximately 3,700 acres just east of the Village of Naples and is primarily scenic, steep wooded terrain. It has numerous ecological habitats with many steep wooded hills, gullies, eroded cliffs, and wetlands. This WMA consists of approximately 6,800 acres.

The primary purposes of High Tor Wildlife Management Area (WMA) are for wildlife management, wildlife habitat management, and wildlife-dependent recreation.

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