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All 48 official 4,000-footers, the most-loved smaller peaks, and every major alpine ski area, with real elevations, trail mileage, sunrise times and the best month to go.
*Sum of USDA Forest Service–managed trail segments on the White Mountain National Forest (USFS GIS, includes some ski-touring trails).
| Peak | Elevation | Effort | Skiing | Top access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Washington 4K | 6,289 ft | — | Backcountry | Drivable road, Cog railway |
| Mount Adams 4K | 5,793 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Jefferson 4K | 5,712 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Clay | 5,533 ft | — | ||
| Mount Monroe 4K | 5,372 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Madison 4K | 5,367 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Lafayette 4K | 5,249 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Lincoln 4K | 5,089 ft | Steep | ||
| South Twin Mountain 4K | 4,902 ft | Moderate | ||
| Carter Dome 4K | 4,832 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Moosilauke 4K | 4,802 ft | Steep | ||
| North Twin Mountain 4K | 4,760 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Eisenhower 4K | 4,760 ft | Steep | ||
| Little Haystack Mountain | 4,741 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Bond 4K | 4,698 ft | Gentle | ||
| Mount Carrigain 4K | 4,683 ft | Moderate | Tower | |
| Mount Hight | 4,675 ft | Steep | ||
| Middle Carter Mountain 4K | 4,601 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Guyot | 4,580 ft | Moderate | ||
| North Carter Mountain | 4,530 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Blue | 4,529 ft | Very steep | ||
| West Bond 4K | 4,469 ft | Gentle | ||
| Mount Liberty 4K | 4,459 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Garfield 4K | 4,445 ft | Moderate | ||
| Wildcat Mountain (A Peak) 4K | 4,422 ft | Steep | ||
| South Carter Mountain 4K | 4,420 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Hancock 4K | 4,391 ft | Moderate | ||
| South Kinsman 4K | 4,345 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Flume 4K | 4,328 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Field 4K | 4,327 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Osceola 4K | 4,315 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Pierce 4K | 4,311 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Zealand 4K | 4,265 ft | Moderate | ||
| North Kinsman 4K | 4,260 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Willey 4K | 4,255 ft | Very steep | ||
| Bondcliff 4K | 4,252 ft | Moderate | ||
| South Hancock 4K | 4,250 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Cabot 4K | 4,167 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Jim | 4,160 ft | Very steep | ||
| East Osceola 4K | 4,156 ft | Steep | ||
| North Tripyramid 4K | 4,122 ft | Steep | ||
| Middle Tripyramid 4K | 4,101 ft | Moderate | ||
| Cannon Mountain 4K | 4,081 ft | Moderate | Lift-served | Aerial tram |
| Mount Hale 4K | 4,055 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Jackson 4K | 4,052 ft | Very steep | ||
| Mount Tom 4K | 4,051 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Moriah 4K | 4,049 ft | Steep | ||
| Wildcat D 4K | 4,047 ft | Very steep | Lift-served | Chairlift |
| Mount Passaconaway 4K | 4,043 ft | Moderate | ||
| Owl's Head 4K | 4,025 ft | Moderate | ||
| Galehead Mountain 4K | 4,024 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Whiteface 4K | 4,019 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Waumbek 4K | 4,006 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Isolation 4K | 4,003 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Tecumseh 4K | 4,003 ft | Very steep | Lift-served | |
| Sandwich Mountain | 3,980 ft | Moderate | ||
| Sandwich Dome | 3,967 ft | Moderate | ||
| The Bulge | 3,936 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Nancy | 3,926 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Starr King | 3,907 ft | — | ||
| The Horn | 3,904 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Weeks | 3,901 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Waternomee | 3,890 ft | Very steep | ||
| South Weeks | 3,885 ft | Moderate | ||
| The Sleepers | 3,881 ft | Moderate | ||
| Scar Ridge | 3,774 ft | Moderate | ||
| The Cannon Balls | 3,763 ft | Moderate | ||
| Middle Moriah Mountain | 3,755 ft | Moderate | ||
| Shelburne Moriah Mountain | 3,734 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Kancamagus | 3,725 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Bemis | 3,721 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Dartmouth | 3,720 ft | Gentle | ||
| Bunnell Mountain | 3,716 ft | — | ||
| Mount Lowell | 3,715 ft | Moderate | ||
| Hutchins Mountain | 3,704 ft | Moderate | ||
| Imp Mountain | 3,696 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Deception | 3,650 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Hitchcock | 3,626 ft | Moderate | ||
| Muise Mountain | 3,597 ft | — | ||
| Pliny Mountain | 3,594 ft | Moderate | ||
| Stub Hill | 3,593 ft | — | ||
| North Baldface | 3,591 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Success | 3,587 ft | — | ||
| South Baldface | 3,560 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Martha | 3,546 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Clough | 3,545 ft | Steep | ||
| The Fool Killer | 3,514 ft | Steep | ||
| Sable Mountain | 3,513 ft | Moderate | ||
| Savage Mountain | 3,513 ft | — | ||
| Mount Chocorua | 3,481 ft | Steep | ||
| Goback Mountain | 3,480 ft | — | ||
| Mount Kelsey | 3,472 ft | — | ||
| Stairs Mountain | 3,460 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Avalon | 3,442 ft | Steep | ||
| Carr Mountain | 3,437 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Bowman | 3,431 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Resolution | 3,407 ft | Moderate | ||
| Whitewall Mount | 3,407 ft | Gentle | ||
| Teapot Mountain | 3,398 ft | — | ||
| Percy Peaks | 3,396 ft | Gentle | ||
| Fitch Mountain | 3,389 ft | — | ||
| Mount Magalloway | 3,383 ft | — | Tower | |
| Mount Tremont | 3,374 ft | Steep | ||
| Salmon Mountain | 3,352 ft | — | ||
| Chandler Mountain | 3,325 ft | Steep | ||
| Little Wildcat Mountain | 3,317 ft | Moderate | ||
| Duck Pond Mountain | 3,303 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Joseph Whipple | 3,282 ft | Steep | ||
| Big Coolidge Mountain | 3,279 ft | Moderate | ||
| Kearsarge North | 3,268 ft | Steep | ||
| Black Crescent Mountain | 3,264 ft | Moderate | ||
| Big Bickford Mountain | 3,255 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Crescent | 3,251 ft | Moderate | ||
| Smarts Mountain | 3,238 ft | Moderate | ||
| Flat Top Mountain | 3,237 ft | Moderate | ||
| Cherry Mountain | 3,201 ft | Moderate | ||
| North Moat Mountain | 3,196 ft | Moderate | ||
| West Royce Mountain | 3,193 ft | Very steep | ||
| Mount Cushman | 3,178 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Paugus | 3,169 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Monadnock | 3,166 ft | — | ||
| Mount Cardigan | 3,155 ft | — | Tower | |
| Engine Hill | 3,130 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Crawford | 3,119 ft | Steep | ||
| Hedgehog Nubble | 3,112 ft | — | ||
| Bald Cap | 3,071 ft | Moderate | ||
| Loon Mountain | 3,065 ft | Moderate | Lift-served | Gondola |
| Mount Echo | 3,065 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Doublehead | 3,053 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Mitten | 3,051 ft | Gentle | ||
| Mount Shaw | 2,990 ft | — | ||
| Mount Rosebrook | 2,985 ft | Steep | ||
| Bartlett Haystack | 2,959 ft | Moderate | ||
| Eastman Mountain | 2,939 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Kearsarge | 2,937 ft | — | Partial road · Tower | |
| Mount Cube | 2,893 ft | Moderate | ||
| North Bald Cap | 2,880 ft | Gentle | ||
| Mount Willard | 2,842 ft | — | ||
| Mount Wonalancet | 2,797 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Meader | 2,787 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Sunapee | 2,726 ft | — | Lift-served | |
| Dickey Mountain | 2,707 ft | Steep | ||
| Mount Pemigewasset | 2,551 ft | — | ||
| Jericho Mountain | 2,476 ft | Gentle | ||
| Lovewell Mountain | 2,473 ft | — | ||
| Welch Mountain | 2,460 ft | Steep | ||
| Belknap Mountain | 2,382 ft | — | Tower | |
| Black Cap | 2,369 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Agassiz | 2,369 ft | — | ||
| Pack Monadnock | 2,290 ft | — | Tower | |
| North Pack Monadnock | 2,276 ft | — | ||
| Ragged Mountain | 2,264 ft | — | Lift-served | |
| Gunstock Mountain | 2,241 ft | — | Lift-served | |
| Mount Cilley | 2,213 ft | Moderate | ||
| Mount Whittier | 2,205 ft | — | ||
| Turtleback Mountain | 2,203 ft | — | ||
| Mount Morgan | 2,193 ft | — | ||
| Mount Percival | 2,173 ft | — | ||
| Pitcher Mountain | 2,153 ft | — | ||
| Larcom Mountain | 2,093 ft | — | ||
| Red Hill | 2,009 ft | — | Tower | |
| Skatutakee Mountain | 1,998 ft | — | ||
| Thumb Mountain | 1,978 ft | — | ||
| Temple Mountain | 1,968 ft | — | ||
| Gap Mountain | 1,887 ft | — | ||
| Little Monadnock Mountain | 1,880 ft | — | ||
| New Ipswich Mountain | 1,876 ft | — | ||
| Bayle Mountain | 1,853 ft | — | ||
| Barrett Mountain | 1,843 ft | — | ||
| Pratt Mountain | 1,817 ft | — | ||
| Kidder Mountain | 1,805 ft | — | ||
| Mount Major | 1,786 ft | — | ||
| Nickerson Mountain | 1,700 ft | — | ||
| Mount Rowe | 1,680 ft | — | ||
| Cranmore Mountain | 1,668 ft | — | Lift-served | |
| Mount Assurance | 1,655 ft | — | ||
| Wantastiquet Mountain | 1,368 ft | — | ||
| Blue Job Mountain | 1,357 ft | — | Tower | |
| Uncanoonuc North Mountain | 1,322 ft | — | ||
| Uncanoonuc South Mountain | 1,313 ft | — | ||
| Potanipo Hill | 613 ft | — | ||
| Garrison Hill | 291 ft | — | Tower |
Effort score = elevation gain ÷ straight-line distance from the nearest USFS trailhead to the summit (feet per mile). Trails wind, so real trail grades are gentler than this number. Under 500 Gentle · 500–999 Moderate · 1,000–1,499 Steep · 1,500+ Very steep. Use it to compare peaks, not as a trail grade.
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Mount Washington is the highest peak we cover.
Garrison Hill is the lowest peak we cover.
wind gust recorded on Mount Washington on April 12, 1934, a world record until 1996.
Source: Wikipediathe year the Cog Railway, the world's first mountain-climbing cog railway, began running to the summit of Mount Washington.
Source: The CogYou can also drive to the top of Mount Washington on the privately run Auto Road (fee, seasonal).
Source: Mt. Washington Auto Roadfire lookout towers run by the NH Division of Forests and Lands, open to visitors when staffed.
Source: NHDFLnamed lakes and ponds within 30 miles of Uncanoonuc North Mountain, the most of any peak we cover.
Source: NH Fish and Game dataBiggest vertical drop: Loon Mountain (2,190 ft), Cannon Mountain (2,180 ft), Wildcat Mountain (2,112 ft).
Source: Ski NHTowns with peaks and a ski area within 10 miles (straight line), so one base works for summer hikes and winter skiing.