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Franconia Town Forest

Franconia Town Forest from directly overhead

Franconia Town Forest is a nature reserve in New Hampshire, at a modelled elevation of 314 m. Mount Lafayette stands 1,600 m to the southeast, 5.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Lawrence Family Forest, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. White Mountain Trail passes 2.2 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Franconia
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates44.20965, -71.72862

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Cliffs: 60
  • Artists Bluff: 2.6 mi
  • Square Inch Wall: 2.9 mi
  • Maggot Buttress: 3.0 mi
  • Hermit Haven: 3.0 mi
  • Profile Cliff: 3.0 mi
Parks: 45
  • Fox Hill Park: 1.0 mi
  • Dow Park: 1.4 mi
  • The Frost Place: 1.4 mi
  • Coffin Pond Conservation Area: 2.7 mi
  • Franconia Notch State Park: 3.2 mi
Waterfalls: 45
Attractions: 39
  • Boise Rock: 4.6 mi
  • The Basin: 6.5 mi
  • Chutters: 7.0 mi
  • Liberty Gorge: 7.7 mi
  • Table Rock Flume Brook: 8.1 mi
Museums: 20
Historic sites: 13
  • Governor Gallen Memorial: 2.8 mi
  • Caddy Camp Alumni Memorial: 6.1 mi
  • Chase cellar hole: 11.2 mi
  • Bath New Hampshire: 12.2 mi
  • Mine Shaft: 13.9 mi
Picnic sites: 10
Rest areas: 6
Springs: 5
  • Liberty Spring: 7.6 mi
  • Lac Littleton: 9.9 mi
  • Gulfside Spring: 21.7 mi
  • Spaulding Spring: 21.7 mi
  • Peabody Spring: 22.4 mi
Artworks: 3
  • Tree Harp: 7.0 mi
  • Sunflowers: 7.1 mi
  • Pollyanna Statue: 7.1 mi
Gardens: 2
  • Lancaster Community Garden: 20.7 mi
  • Mary Bierbrier Community Garden: 21.4 mi
Beaches: 1
Covered bridges: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.1 miles of Franconia Town Forest. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount LafayetteSE 129°1,600 m5.4 mi
Mount LincolnSE 135°1,551.12 m5.9 mi
North LincolnSE 132°1,524 m5.7 mi
North LafayetteSE 126°1,519 m5.1 mi
South Twin MountainE 100°1,491 m8.7 mi
North Twin MountainE 93°1,452 m8.5 mi
Little Haystack MountainSE 139°1,440 m6.3 mi
Mount LibertySSE 147°1,353 m7.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5118:2118:59
June solstice05:0419:5020:35
September equinox06:3518:0818:46
December solstice07:2015:2416:12

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F161727405362666557453422
Precip in2.62.02.63.13.74.24.64.23.64.03.03.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bethlehem 2, 8 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/47799019

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