Mount Passaconaway

Mount Passaconaway, a heavily wooded four-thousand-foot peak in New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest near Waterville Valley, is known less for summit views than for its surrounding forests, valleys, and long hiking approaches. Named for the Pennacook sachem Passaconaway after first being called North Whiteface, it also preserves his family’s names in nearby landscape features. Its measured elevation has changed with successive surveys, but it remains one of the White Mountains’ forty-eight four-thousand-footers. The mountain’s history is closely tied to logging, hiking, and conservation, from Old Mast Road and an 1890 landslide to trail building, early forest protection at The Bowl, and wilderness expansion that eventually included the entire mountain.

Waterville Valley, New Hampshire · United States