Mount Kearsarge (Merrimack County, New Hampshire)
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| Mount Kearsarge | |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 895 metres (2,937 feet) |
| Location | New Hampshire, USA |
| Prominence | 640 m (2,100 ft) |
| Coordinates | |
| Topo map | USGS Andover (NH) |
Mount Kearsarge is the name of a 2,937 foot (895 m) mountain located in Wilmot, New Hampshire, and Warner, New Hampshire, the United States. Two state parks are located on the mountain: Winslow State Park and Rollins State Park. On a very clear day, skyscrapers in the city of Boston, Massachusetts 80 miles (130 km) away are visible from the fire tower on the summit. The summit has remained bare since a 1796 forest fire.
Kearsarge is a monadnock, and although of only moderate elevation, its isolation gives it 2,100 ft of relative height above the low ground separating it from the higher mountains farther north. That makes Kearsarge one of twelve mountains in New Hampshire with a prominence over 2,000 ft.[1]
Kearsarge is a popular hiking destination. The summit is the high point along the 75-mile Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway hiking trail which links 10 towns and encircles the Lake Sunapee region of western New Hampshire. The quickest route to the top is from the Rollins State Park Picnic Area.
The Winslow Trail and the state park on the Wilmot side are named after Captain John Winslow, the commander of the USS Kearsarge, which in June 1864 sank the CSS Alabama in the English Channel in a famous Civil War sea battle.
[edit] Others
- Mount Kearsarge is also the name of a 3,268 ft. peak in the White Mountains, east of Bartlett, New Hampshire. The mountain's Abenaki name is "Pequawket". On topographic maps, the mountain is referred to as "Kearsarge North".
[edit] External links
- Information on Kearsarge
- Rollins State Park Homepage
- Winslow State Park Homepage
- Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway Coalition
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