Mount Chocorua, a 3,490-foot peak at the eastern end of New Hampshire’s Sandwich Range, is renowned less for height than for its rugged shape, bare summit, and commanding visibility across central New Hampshire and parts of Maine. Its name likely comes from Algonquin words linked to a water serpent and eroded rock, with forms of the name recorded from the 1760s and 1791. Valued for sweeping views and its celebrated reflection in Chocorua Lake, the mountain became the image on New Hampshire’s 2013 quarter. Popular trails and long volunteer stewardship have made it a major hiking destination, while legend and repeated treatment by major artists made it an enduring cultural symbol.

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Albany, New Hampshire · USA