Geography of Carroll County, New Hampshire

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Chapters: Landforms of Carroll County, New Hampshire, Parks in Carroll County, New Hampshire, Populated places in Carroll County, New Hampshire, Protected areas of Carroll County, New Hampshire, Appalachian Trail, North Conway, New Hampshire, Hale's Location, New Hampshire, Lake Winnipesaukee, Mount Chocorua, Chocorua Lake, Saco River, White Mountain National Forest, Lake Wentworth, Redstone, New Hampshire, Sandwich Range, Crawford Notch, Conway Lake, Squam Lake, Mount Kearsarge (Carroll County, New Hampshire), Swift River, Sandwich Mountain, Mount Doublehead, Mount Webster, Great East Lake, Center Conway, New Hampshire, Black Cap, Silver Lake (Madison, New Hampshire), Province Lake, Mount Shaw, Ossipee Lake, Bartlett Haystack, North Moat Mountain, Stump Pond, Melvin Village, New Hampshire, Chocorua, New Hampshire, Broad Bay, Echo Lake, Dan Hole Pond, South Baldface, Mirror Lake (Tuftonboro, New Hampshire), Lake Kanasatka, Lovell Lake, Jackson Falls National Register Historic District, Bear Mountain, Pine River Pond, Mount Whittier, Glen, New Hampshire, Larcom Mountain, Intervale, New Hampshire, Turtleback Mountain, Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, Center Ossipee, New Hampshire, Mount Roberts, Nickerson Mountain, Silver Lake, New Hampshire, Bayle Mountain, Mount Tremont, Rocky Gorge, Wonalancet, New Hampshire, Crawford Notch State Park, Mount Willard, Eastman Mountain. Excerpt: The Appalachian National Scenic Trail, generally known as the Appalachian Trail or simply the AT, is a marked hiking trail in the eastern United States extending between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine. It is approximately 2,181 miles (3,510 km) long. The path is maintained by 30 trail clubs and multiple partnerships, and managed by the National Park Service and the nonprofit Appalachian Trail Conservancy. The majority of the trail is in wilderness, although some portions do traverse towns and roads, and cross rivers. The Appalachian Trail is famous for its many hikers, some of whom, called thru-hikers, attempt to hike it in its entirety in a single season. Many books, memoirs, web sites and fan organizations are dedicated to this pursuit. Along the way, the trail passes through the states of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. An extension, the International Appalachian Trail, continues north into Canada and to the end of the range, where it enters the Atlantic Ocean. The Appalachian Trail, the Continental Divide Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail form the Triple Crown of long distance hiking in the United States. The trail was conceived by Benton MacKaye, a forester who wrote his original plan shortly after the death of his wife in 1921. MacKaye's idea detailed a grand trail that would connect a series of farms and wilderness work/study camps for city-dwellers. In 1922, at the suggestion of Major William A. Welch, director of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, his idea was publicized by Raymond H. Torrey with a story in the New York Evening Post under a full-page banner headline reading "A Great Trail from Maine to Georgia!" The idea was quickly adopted by the new Palisades Interstate Park Trail Conference as their main project. Bear Mountain BridgeOn October 7, 1923, the first section of the trail, fr