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North Baldface. North Baldface is a 3,606-foot (1,099 m) mountain in the township of Bean's Purchase, New Hampshire in the eastern White Mountains. It gets its name from its steep barren southeast face. Along with the neighboring summit South Baldface, it is a popular hiking destination, especially in the summer. The two mountains are ascended ...
Named because of the abundant blueberries on its summit and upper slopes, it is a popular day hike. The summit area is partially open and has good views over Evans Notch and toward North and South Baldface in New Hampshire. It is ascended by the White Cairn, Stone House, and Blueberry Ridge trails. It is considered a spur of Speckled Mountain.
The first, and most popular, is the 3.1-mile (5.0 km) Mount Kearsarge North Trail, which ascends 2,600 feet (790 m) from the North Conway side of Hurricane Mountain Road, near Intervale. The Weeks Brook Trail, a much less-used 4.7-mile (7.6 km) route, approaches Kearsarge from the east, from a trailhead on Forest Road 317 in Chatham .
Royce Mountain (West and East) from South Baldface. The Baldface-Royce Range is a range of mountains in western Maine and eastern New Hampshire, in the United States.They are located in the town of Chatham, New Hampshire, and the townships of Bean's Purchase, New Hampshire, and Batchelders Grant, Maine, in the eastern part of the White Mountains.
The full Greenway section hike on Mt. Kearsarge covers 5.8 miles (9.3 km) from Winslow picnic area via the Barlow Trail to the summit and via the Rollins and Lincoln trails southwesterly to Kearsarge Valley Road in North Sutton. The Winslow Trail and the state park on the Wilmot side are named after Admiral John Winslow, [5] the commander of ...
The 75-mile (120 km) long Sunapee–Ragged–Kearsarge (SRK) Greenway, a hiking trail, traverses the summit and subsidiary knobs of the mountain. The trailheads are at Proctor Academy on NH Route 11 in Andover and, on the northern side, on New Canada Road in Danbury.
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The next summit to the north on the ridge (towards Kearsarge North) is 2,100-foot (640 m) Hurricane Mountain, and to the southwest is 1,857-foot (566 m) Middle Mountain. Black Cap is located entirely in the watershed of the Saco River , which flows to the Gulf of Maine ( Atlantic Ocean ) near Saco , Maine.