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Mount Eisenhower

Mount Eisenhower rises to 1,449 m in New Hampshire. Mount Washington stands 1,917 m to the northeast, 3.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Franklin, a peak 1.1 miles away. Presidential Range Tour passes 3.3 miles off.

The story

Mount Eisenhower, formerly Mount Pleasant, is a mountain in the Presidential Range in the White Mountains of New Hampshire approximately 4,757 feet (1,450 m) high. Named after President Dwight D. Eisenhower, its summit offers a 360° view. It is inaccessible by road. The Crawford Path, carrying the Appalachian Trail, crosses the mountain near its summit. It separates from the summit loop trail at 4,400 feet (1,300 m), 0.3 mi (0.5 km) south of the summit, and rejoins it 0.3 mi (0.5 km) northeast of the summit, having made a net elevation gain of about 40 feet (12 m) and reached a maximum on Eisenhower of about 4,520 feet (1,380 m). The mountain was known as Mount Pleasant until the New Hampshire Legislature voted in 1969 to name it after President Eisenhower, and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names agreed in 1970. The shortest trail route to the summit of Eisenhower is from a parking lot on Mount Clinton Road, to its west-northwest, via primarily the Edmands Path. Several routes are available from points more or less southwest of it on Route 302; the most used of these (probably roughly equal in popularity to the Edmands route) is via the Crawford Path, starting from a parking lot on Mount Clinton Road, very near 302 and just north of the Highland Center in the Crawford Notch area. Mount Monroe lies on the ridge northeast of Mt. Eisenhower, and Mount Pierce to the southwest. All three of these peaks are included on the peak-bagging list of four-thousand footers in New Hampshire. Mount Franklin, an "unofficial" peak (not prominent enough to be included in the list), lies between Mount Eisenhower and Mount Monroe.

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Wikidata Q200690, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

What the record says

Elevation
1449 m

How to reach it

Coordinates44.24069, -71.35040

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Nature reserves
Cliffs
Parks
  • Prospect Farm: 7.6 mi
  • Randolf Springs Town Park: 8.8 mi
  • Durand Lake: 9.7 mi
  • Mossy Glen: 10.1 mi
  • William H. Peek Memorial Park: 10.3 mi
Waterfalls: 54
Attractions: 43
  • Mount Washington Observatory: 3.1 mi
  • ZipRider Wildcat Mountain: 5.7 mi
  • Cog Railway Display: 9.6 mi
  • Eggs-traordinary Farm Tractors: 12.0 mi
  • Roar-o-Saurus: 12.1 mi
Museums: 23
  • Museum of White Mountain Art / Jackson Historical Society: 10.6 mi
  • Jefferson Historical Museum: 13.2 mi
  • Gorham Historical Society & Railroad Museum: 13.3 mi
  • MWOBs Admin Office: 16.9 mi
  • Conway Railroad Museum: 17.0 mi
Picnic sites: 20
Historic sites: 16
Beaches: 11
  • Echo Lake Beach: 17.6 mi
  • Beach Area #1: 20.5 mi
  • Beach Area #2: 20.8 mi
  • Pleasant Point Town Beach: 22.3 mi
  • Conway Lake Public Beach: 23.0 mi
Springs: 6
  • Gulfside Spring: 5.1 mi
  • Spaulding Spring: 5.2 mi
  • Peabody Spring: 5.9 mi
  • lower falls: 16.5 mi
  • Liberty Spring: 17.0 mi
Artworks: 4
  • Hannes Schneider: 17.4 mi
  • Pollyanna Statue: 21.4 mi
  • Tree Harp: 21.4 mi
  • Sunflowers: 21.5 mi
Rest areas: 3
Gardens: 3
  • Laura Lee Viger Community Gardens: 17.7 mi
  • Lancaster Community Garden: 20.2 mi
  • Mary Bierbrier Community Garden: 21.7 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Covered bridges: 1

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 7.9 miles of Mount Eisenhower. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount WashingtonNE 49°1,917 m3.1 mi
Ball CragNE 47°1,843 m3.4 mi
Agiocochook CragNE 48°1,748 m4.0 mi
Mount AdamsNNE 28°1,748 m6.2 mi
Mount JeffersonNNE 21°1,725 m4.7 mi
Nelson CragNE 50°1,708 m4.2 mi
Mount ClayNNE 29°1,684 m3.6 mi
Mount Sam AdamsNNE 24°1,682 m6.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5018:2018:58
June solstice05:0219:4920:33
September equinox06:3318:0718:45
December solstice07:1915:2216:10

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F6613243646504943312112
Precip in5.75.46.77.37.78.68.97.77.710.08.17.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Washington, 3 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357729959

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