White Mountain Trail
White Mountain National Forest, NH

Cloaked with forests and laced with streams, the White Mountain rise in dramatic relief north of New Hampshire's central plateau. Among the ranges and ridges are the highest mountains in the Northeast, the Presidential Range, which culminate in the bare granite summit of 6,288-foot Mount Washington, Mounts Adams, Jefferson, Monroe and Madison also exceed 5,000 feet in elevation. Passes known as "notches" pierce the uplift; Crawford, Dixville, Franconia, Kinsman and Pinkham notches provide some of the better known scenic features in the state.