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Best of New Hampshire

The White Mountains hold most of these, close enough together to share one base in Lincoln or Conway. Portsmouth and Monadnock are the two you'll want a separate day for.

7 places · New Hampshire

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Lakes & riversMountainsCanyons & desertsAttractions
Mount WashingtonMust-see
The Northeast's High Point

Mount Washington

6,288 feet, and a 231 mph gust on the record books since 1934. Drive the Auto Road, ride the Cog, or hike Tuckerman Ravine, then watch the summit vanish into cloud.

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Gorham, NH White Mountains, New Hampshire
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Flume GorgeMust-see
The granite slot

Flume Gorge

A boardwalk runs 800 feet through Conway granite walls up to 90 feet high, with 45-foot Avalanche Falls at the top. Timed-entry tickets, May to late October, and fall weekends sell out.

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Lincoln, NH White Mountains, New Hampshire
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Kancamagus Highway Mountains

Kancamagus Highway

Lincoln, NH · White Mountains, New HampshireFree

NH 112 runs about 34 miles between Lincoln and Conway with no gas, no lodging, and no billboards, which is the point. It climbs to a height of land at 2,855 feet on Kancamagus…

Lake Winnipesaukee Lakes & rivers

Lake Winnipesaukee

Laconia, NH · Lakes Region, New Hampshire

New Hampshire's largest lake runs about 21 miles long, covers 69 square miles, and holds at least 258 islands. Most first visits land at Weirs Beach in Laconia, where a…

Mount Monadnock Mountains

Mount Monadnock

Jaffrey, NH · Monadnock Region, Southwest New Hampshire$

Monadnock stands alone. Nothing within thirty miles comes close to its 3,165 feet, so the bare rock summit gives a full 360: Vermont's Green Mountains, the Berkshires, and on a…

Portsmouth Attractions

Portsmouth

Portsmouth, NH · Seacoast, New Hampshire

Portsmouth packs a working port, a 1600s street plan and a dense restaurant row into a downtown you can cross on foot in fifteen minutes. Roughly 22,000 people live here on the…

Crawford Notch State Park Mountains

Crawford Notch State Park

Hart's Location, NH · White Mountains, New Hampshire

US 302 runs the floor of a U-shaped pass the Saco spent millennia carving, Webster Cliff on one wall, Mount Willard closing the view north. Flume Cascade and Silver Cascade drop…