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Often overlooked by the Rockies and Cascades out west, the highest mountains in New England still stand out despite their low elevation.
The New England Fifty Finest is a list of mountains in New England, United States, used in the mountaineering sport of peak bagging. The list comprises the 50 summits with the highest topographic prominence — a peak's height above the lowest contour which encloses that peak and no higher peak.
RankPeakStateProminence [1]16,150 ft24,290 ft33,640 ft4New Hampshire3,360 ftThe New England Hundred Highest is a list of the hundred highest summits in New England, used in the mountaineering sport of peak bagging.
RankNameStateElevation16,288 ft2New Hampshire5,774 ft3New Hampshire5,712 ft4New Hampshire5,384 ft- New England 100 Highest Quick Facts
- New England 100 Highest State-by-State
- How to Hike Them All
- Beyond The Ne 100
According to the AMC Four Thousand Footer Club, as of April 2018, 992 people have reported completing the NE100. The most northern peak is Fort Mountain in Maine’s Baxter State Park, where you can hike to remnants from a 1944 plane crash. The most southern peak is Stratton Mountain in Vermont, also a ski resort. If you drive from Fort Mountain to S...
New Hampshire
With the most peaks on the list, only 11 of New Hampshire’s 59 peaks are under 4,000 feet. Many hikers tackle the NH48 first before they take on the NE100. It’s a good place to start because once completed, you’re already almost halfway to completing the NE100.
Maine
Maine boasts 27 of the NE100 with just over half standing at 4,000 feet or more in elevation. While five of New Hampshire’s peaks stand taller than Maine’s highest peak on Katahdin—Baxter (5,268 feet)—it is by far one of the most iconic peaks on the list. Baxter is also the Northern Terminus of the Appalachian Trail.
Vermont
Fourteen of the NE100 are located in the beautiful state of Vermont. All of the peaks are located either on or near the Long Trail, a 263-mile continuous footpath that runs the length of the state from Massachusetts to the Canadian border.
The Rules
According to the AMC Four Thousand Footer Club, you must complete each and every ascent and descent by foot. Skis and snowshoes are allowed, but no bikes. Hiking via auto road is a no-go (think Mount Washington auto road), but you can bag multiple peaks in one hike. Thirteen peaks do not have official trails and are reached via snowmobile trails, old logging roads, or herd paths. Expect some bushwhacking for these hikes as well. The AMC Four Thousand Footer Club updates the NE100 list when ne...
Strategies
There are a few basic strategies for attacking the list. For most, this means planning day hikes to summit one, two, or sometimes three peaks at a time. Some of the mountains are within a mile or two of one another, so you can easily group a few peaks into one hike and make a day of it. There’s also the option to go on a weekend (or longer) backpacking trip to bag several peaks in one go. For example, you could take on the Presidential Range and summit several peaks over a few days. The most...
Challenges
Peakbagging all 100 peaks can be a lengthy process. For some hikers, it takes several years to get around to summiting each and every peak. Others take on the challenge of completing the list in one calendar year. But really, you can decide how difficult or easy (a relative term) you want your peakbagging experience to be. You can keep to the summer and early fall months when the weather is warmer and trails are dryer. Or you can strap on your snowshoes and trudge through the deep snowpack in...
If checking the NE100 off your bucket list just isn’t enough, then have no fear. There’s an endless string of peakbagging lists to take on and the next level up from the NE100 is to complete the Northeast 111, which includes all 111 4,000 footers in the Northeast. Apart from the 67 peaks in New England, the Northeast 111 includes 44 peaks in the Ad...
Its most famous mountain is 6,288-foot (1,917 m) Mount Washington, which is the highest peak in the Northeastern U.S. and for 76 years held the record for fastest surface wind gust in the world (231 miles per hour (372 km/h) in 1934).
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Here is the highest point in each New England state, with a story to go with it. Despite its location near the tony towns of Great Barrington, Mass., and Salisbury, Conn., Mount Frissell is the Rodney Dangerfield of mountains. It just doesn’t get any respect.
