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Trail descriptions are available from a number of commercial and non-commercial sources, and a complete guidebook with topographic maps is published by the Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway Trail Club. [2] View from Pitcher Mountain. Weather along the MSG is typical of southern New Hampshire.
An example is the 5,532-foot (1,686 m) Mount Clay, located 1.1 miles (1.8 km) north-northwest along the ridge joining the peak of Mount Washington with that of Mount Jefferson, rising less than 200 feet (61 m) above the general trend of that ridge.
A seldom-used rock climbing destination, The Bulkhead is also the last place peregrine falcons have nested in the Sunapee-Kearsarge region of New Hampshire. [2] The Bulkhead can be reached from The Bulkhead Trail at the headwaters of Mitchell Brook on Proctor Academy's campus. From the Andover town green, the hike takes roughly an hour and ...
The main access to the wilderness is via the Wild River Trail, which climbs the grade of the old railroad to No Ketchum Pond. From this hub, trails branch off into the rugged mountains in the western portion of the wilderness. The Appalachian Trail follows the ridge of the Carter-Moriah Range, which marks the western boundary of the preserve.
The Four-thousand footers (sometimes abbreviated 4ks [1]) are a group of forty-eight mountains in New Hampshire at least 4,000 feet (1,200 m) above sea level. To qualify for inclusion a peak must also meet the more technical criterion of topographic prominence important in the mountaineering sport of peak-bagging .
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The trail ascends a cumulative 4,900 feet (1,500 m), first through densely wooded forest for about 3.1 miles (5.0 km), then following the exposed southern ridge of the Presidential Range mostly above the treeline. The Crawford Path is a popular hiking trail. The primary parking lot for hikers is off Mt. Clinton Road, 0.1 miles from U.S. Route 302.
Covered bridge near the Flume A hiking trail through Franconia Notch The Basin. Franconia Notch State Park is a public recreation area and nature preserve that straddles eight miles (13 km) of Interstate 93 as it passes through Franconia Notch, a mountain pass between the Kinsman Range and Franconia Range in the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire, United States.