White Mountains Hiking Basecamps
The White Mountains have the highest peaks in the Northeast, led by Mount Washington at 6,288 feet, and the Appalachian Mountain Club runs a chain of backcountry huts along their ridges. Lakes of the Clouds Hut, at 5,012 feet, sleeps 90 below Mount Monroe, and Zealand Falls Hut, a 2.8-mile hike in, is one of the few open year-round. At the trailheads, the AMC also runs Joe Dodge Lodge at Pinkham Notch and the Highland Center in Crawford Notch.
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Joe Dodge Lodge
Pinkham Notch · Lodge
The Appalachian Mountain Club's lodge at Pinkham Notch on Route 16, at 2,032 feet at the eastern base of Mount Washington, 18 miles north of North Conway. It has private rooms and bunk rooms, and meal plans with breakfast, or breakfast and dinner, are optional. The Tuckerman Ravine Trail starts at the lodge. It is open year-round, and dogs are not allowed overnight.
Zealand Falls Hut
Twin Mountain · Hut
An Appalachian Mountain Club hut beside Zealand Falls, reached by the Zealand Trail, a 2.8-mile hike from the end of Zealand Road. It is one of the few AMC huts open year-round. In winter the road is closed, adding about 3 miles each way, and the hut runs as self-service, so guests bring their own food. Guests sleep in bunkrooms.
AMC Highland Center
Bretton Woods · Lodge
The Appalachian Mountain Club's lodge at the head of Crawford Notch on Route 302, opened in 2003 and designed to resemble the old Crawford House hotel. It has 37 rooms, from private rooms with their own baths to shared-bath rooms for two to six people, plus bunks in the Shapleigh Bunkhouse. Guided hikes and naturalist programs start from the lodge.
Crawford Notch General Store & Campground
Hart's Location · Campground / Cabins
A campground with cabins and yurts on 100 acres along the Saco River, on Route 302 in Hart's Location below Crawford Notch. There are 100 campsites, some beside the river, and a general store. Pets are welcome, and trails, biking and river wading are close by. Route 302 continues north through the notch to Bretton Woods.
AMC Lakes of the Clouds Hut
Mount Washington · Hut
The highest of the Appalachian Mountain Club's huts, at 5,012 feet just below Mount Monroe and about 1.5 miles from the summit of Mount Washington, beside the two alpine Lakes of the Clouds. It sleeps 90 in bunk rooms for 6 to 15 people, and dinner and breakfast are included. The hut is open from early June to mid-September and is reached by a 3-mile climb on the Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail.
Gorham Motor Inn
Gorham · Motel
A motel at 324 Main Street in Gorham, which bills itself as affordable and unfussy, with a seasonal pool, a creekside gazebo and grills. ATV and snowmobile trails start across the street, and restaurants and shops are within walking distance. Mount Washington, Jericho Mountain State Park and Story Land are a short drive.
Carter Notch Hut
Beans Grant · Hut
An Appalachian Mountain Club hut at 3,288 feet in Carter Notch, between Carter Dome and Wildcat Mountain, reached by a 3.8-mile hike on the Nineteen-Mile Brook Trail. Two bunkhouses sleep up to 40 in rooms for 4 to 6. In summer, dinner and breakfast are served family-style; the rest of the year it runs as a self-service hut. The glacial Carter Ponds are beside the hut.
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- •The AMC's eight huts are spaced about a day's hike apart along the Appalachian Trail and nearby trails, and in summer most serve dinner and breakfast. Summer weekends book months ahead.
- •In Franconia Notch, the Franconia Ridge Loop runs about 9 miles over Little Haystack, Lincoln and Lafayette, including nearly 2 miles of open ridge above treeline.
- •On the east side, the Tuckerman Ravine Trail to Mount Washington starts at Joe Dodge Lodge, 18 miles north of North Conway, and Carter Notch Hut is a 3.8-mile hike in from Route 16.
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