Mount Pierce

Mount Pierce is a 4,310-foot peak in New Hampshire’s Presidential Range, valued for its wide summit views and as one of the state’s four-thousand-footers. Its history links local mountain travel with changing public memory: Abel and Ethan Crawford, builders of the Crawford Path in 1819, first called it Bald Mountain; it later became Mount Clinton after DeWitt Clinton, and in 1913 was renamed for Franklin Pierce, the only U.S. president born in New Hampshire, though that name took time to catch on. The mountain is commonly reached by routes using the Crawford Path, the nation’s oldest continually used hiking trail, and is connected to neighboring peaks by major ridge trails.

New Hampshire · United States