Take an incredible journey across the heights of New Hampshire. Includes all peaks whose summits lie on (or very near) the 161 miles of Appalachian Trail in New Hampshire. Highlights include summiting alpine tundra-topped peaks of the White Mountains, exploring remote trail deep in the Pemigewasset Wilderness, and the classic traverse of all the high peaks of the boulder-topped Presidential Range. One of the most difficult and scenic sections of the entire AT.
Highest peak
Mount Washington
6,288 ft / 1,916 m
Most prominent peak
Mount Washington
6,148 ft / 1,873 m prom
Most summited peak
Mount Washington
1,052 summits
Most difficult peak
Mount Washington
Class 1
Difficulty breakdown
Class 1/2 5 peaks
Highlights
Latest summits
"After Mount Monroe on a beautiful sunny day with Maryellen, Nancy, Chris, and Tina. 1.5 miles from Lake of the Clouds Hut. Going from cairn to cairn. Lots of traffic along the way. Piles of people at the top from the cog railway. Waited in line to get summit picture. " — lfrancois • Jun 26, 2022
"Up the Ammonousuc Ravine Trail with Maryellen, Nancy, Chris, and Tina. A gentle start and then it went UP to the Lake of the Clouds Hut. There were stone steps and waterfalls. Bright sun on open ridge. 20 minutes from the hut. No disc at the top. " — lfrancois • Jun 26, 2022
"We took Caps Ridge trail up, took Castle Trail down and then Link Trail back over to Caps Ridge trail to finish it. Castle Trail was supposed to be a more gradual decline but it ended up being a LOT of ascend/descend. Also still had some cliff face/ledge to find a way down on. Overall a very challenging mountain for those with short legs" — catiehall • Jun 25, 2022
"3rd summit on the Franconia Ridge hike with Maryellen, Nancy, Chris, Matthew, Diane, and Eric. Pretty trail down and up to Lincoln. Nice wooded section and ridge walk looking at Lincoln. Looked like Maine ridge. " — lfrancois • Jun 24, 2022
"Final summit of the Franconia Ridge with Maryellen, Nancy, Chris, Eric, Diane, Matthew. Continued ridge walk from Lincoln looking at spectacular views all around! Passed by Greenleaf Hut on the way down. Got coffee! Lots of rock steps up and down. The weather was awesome!" — lfrancois • Jun 24, 2022