The Cannon Balls
The Cannon Balls rises to 1,115 m in New Hampshire. Mount Lafayette stands 1,600 m to the east-northeast, 3.7 miles off. The nearest named place is The Cannon Balls East, a peak 0.4 miles away. White Mountain Trail passes 1.7 miles off.
The story
The Cannon Balls is a mountain ridge located in Grafton County, New Hampshire. It is part of the Kinsman Range of the White Mountains. The ridge has three peaks with elevations of, from west to east, 3,693, 3,660, and 3,769 feet (1,125, 1,115 and 1,148 meters). The ridge takes its name from adjacent Cannon Mountain, on which a series of boulders, when viewed from the foot of the mountain, resemble an antique artillery cannon. The Cannon Balls are flanked to the northeast by Cannon Mountain, and to the southwest by Kinsman Mountain. The south side of the ridge drains into Cascade Brook, thence into the Pemigewasset River, the Merrimack River, and into the Gulf of Maine in Massachusetts. The north side drains into Coppermine Brook, thence into the Ham Branch of the Gale River, the Gale River, Ammonoosuc River, Connecticut River, and into Long Island Sound in Connecticut. The Appalachian Trail, a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) National Scenic Trail from Georgia to Maine, runs across the southern base of the Cannon Balls between North Kinsman and Franconia Notch.
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Wikidata Q7721203, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1115 m
How to reach it
- 1.7 mi off the White Mountain Trail, National
- 12.3 mi off the Connecticut River Byway, National
- 7.2 mi off the Kancamagus Scenic Byway, National
- 8.2 mi off the River Heritage Tour
Overlooks nearby
- Profiler Plaza · 2 mi
- Pemigewasset Overlook · 14 mi
- CL Graham Wangan Overlook · 14 mi
- Beaver Brook Overlook · 15 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- The Cannon Balls East: 0.4 mi
- The Cannonballs West: 0.5 mi
- Cannon Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Mittersill Peak: 1.2 mi
- North Kinsman Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Cannon Cliff: 1.6 mi
- Cannon Cliff: 1.7 mi
- Moby Grape: 1.8 mi
- Hone Wall: 2.5 mi
- Hermit Haven: 2.5 mi
- Wells Road Property: 3.3 mi
- Lafayette Brook Scenic Area: 3.4 mi
- Grote Wildlife Sanctuary: 3.4 mi
- Franconia Town Forest: 4.4 mi
- Lawrence Family Forest: 4.7 mi
- Franconia Notch State Park: 1.9 mi
- The Frost Place: 5.0 mi
- Fox Hill Park: 5.3 mi
- Dow Park: 5.6 mi
- Coffin Pond Conservation Area: 6.9 mi
- Bridalveil Falls: 1.0 mi
- Kinsman Flume: 1.7 mi
- Bridesmaid Falls: 1.7 mi
- Kinsman Falls: 2.2 mi
- Stairs Falls: 2.3 mi
- Boise Rock: 1.9 mi
- The Basin: 2.5 mi
- Liberty Gorge: 3.6 mi
- Flume Gorge & Visitor Center: 3.9 mi
- Table Rock Flume Brook: 3.9 mi
- New England Ski Museum: 2.1 mi
- Old Man of the Mountain Museum: 2.2 mi
- Robert Frost Museum: 4.9 mi
- Franconia Heritage Museum: 5.5 mi
- Sugar Hill Sampler: 5.9 mi
- Governor Gallen Memorial: 2.9 mi
- Caddy Camp Alumni Memorial: 9.8 mi
- Chase cellar hole: 12.0 mi
- Bath New Hampshire: 12.4 mi
- Rogers Rangers: 15.7 mi
- Mount Cleveland Picnic Area: 7.1 mi
- Fay Waside Picnic Area: 7.4 mi
- Beaver Brook Recreation Area: 8.5 mi
- Zealand Picnic Area: 13.5 mi
- Moore Dam Picnic Area: 15.0 mi
- Boise Rock: 2.0 mi
- The Basin, West: 2.4 mi
- The Basin, East: 2.6 mi
- Littleton Rest Area: 14.6 mi
- Vermont Welcome Center: 17.3 mi
- Liberty Spring: 4.0 mi
- Lac Littleton: 13.6 mi
- Gulfside Spring: 22.9 mi
- Spaulding Spring: 23.0 mi
- Peabody Spring: 23.7 mi
- Tree Harp: 11.3 mi
- Sunflowers: 11.4 mi
- Pollyanna Statue: 11.4 mi
- Mary Bierbrier Community Garden: 17.5 mi
- Lancaster Community Garden: 24.5 mi
- Echo Lake Beach: 2.4 mi
- Livermore: 17.6 mi
- Mount Orne Covered Bridge: 21.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.8 miles of The Cannon Balls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Lafayette | ENE 75° | 1,600 m | 3.7 mi |
| Mount Lincoln | E 88° | 1,551.12 m | 3.6 mi |
| North Lincoln | E 82° | 1,524 m | 3.6 mi |
| North Lafayette | ENE 69° | 1,519 m | 3.8 mi |
| South Twin Mountain | ENE 71° | 1,491 m | 8.5 mi |
| North Twin Mountain | ENE 64° | 1,452 m | 8.7 mi |
| Little Haystack Mountain | E 98° | 1,440 m | 3.5 mi |
| West Bond | E 86° | 1,358 m | 8.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:51 | 18:21 | 18:59 |
| June solstice | 05:04 | 19:50 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 06:35 | 18:08 | 18:46 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 15:24 | 16:12 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 18 | 20 | 29 | 42 | 54 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 59 | 47 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 5.2 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 6.0 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 5.4 | 4.7 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lincoln Nepp, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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