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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.
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 Hundred Highest is a list of the hundred highest summits in New England, used in the mountaineering sport of peak bagging. The list is a superset of the New England Four-thousand footers , with the same requirement that each included peak must have 200 feet (61 meters) of topographic prominence ("optimistic" prominence ...
RankNameStateElevation16,288 ft2New Hampshire5,774 ft3New Hampshire5,712 ft4New Hampshire5,384 ft- Mount Frissell
- Mount Katahdin
- Mount Greylock
- Mount Washington
- Jerimoth Hill
- Mount Mansfield
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. Though the highest point in Connecticut is on Mount Frissell, Mount Frissell’s summit is in Massachusetts. And getting to Connecticut’s highest point requires climbing up ...
Mount Katahdin, near Millinocket, Maine, is only the 22nd highest state peak in America, but National Geographic named it the country’s second best summit hike. Not because of its height or difficulty, but because it’s “the most inspiring peak in all of eastern North America.” After Henry David Thoreauscaled it in 1846, he wrote, “This was the Eart...
You can see five states from the summit of Mount Greylock in Adams, Mass.: Massachusetts, of course, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and New York. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling put a school of wizardry atop Mount Greylock in her 2016 story, the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It can be read on her Pottermorewebsite. Mount Greyl...
On a clear day, the view from the summit of Mt. Washington stretches 130 miles, to the Atlantic Ocean in the east and Lake Champlainin the west. Today New Hampshirites proudly claim Mount Washington as the home of the world’s worst weather. On April 12, 1934, a wind speed of 231 mph was recorded on its summit, which is in Sargent’s Purchase. In 185...
No, the highest point in Rhode Island is not the 550-foot-high state landfill in Johnston. It’s Jerimoth Hill, all 812 feet of it, in Foster, R.I. Some say it used to offer the most challenging climbing adventure in New England.The Highpointers Club, a national mounting climbing group, called it ‘America’s most inaccessible high point.’ The peak of...
From Stowe, Vermont, look toward Mount Mansfieldand you may see a reclining giant’s face. Many a climber has tried to distinguish the giant’s chin, nose and forehead. The chin is the tallest point. According to a Stowe newspaper in 1858, a giant was walking north and, “being fatigued with his journey, as night came on he laid him down to sleep, and...
Mar 27, 2019 · The New England Hundred Highest (NE100) list is maintained and updated by the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) Four Thousand Footer Club, and as its name describes, includes the 100 highest peaks in New England. All of the peaks are located in the three northern New England states—Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
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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