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Modest yet might mountains in New England to climb this year
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items Size is overrated in many avenues of life, and mountain climbing is no exception. Here in New England, we don't have peaks with the epic scale and elevation of the Rockies. So we've learned to appreciate the scenic qualities of more modest peaks, and...
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Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
Connecticut
One of the stranger things about New England is the number of mountains throughout the region dubbed “Mount Misery.” But Connecticut might just have the best of the bunch. This lonely peak is tucked away in the easternmost part of the state, in the P...
Mount Misery
Not every city can lay claim to its own mountain, and New Haven, Connecticut has two of themu—East Rock and West Rock. Both of these high points are located near the city center and they offer immense traprock cliffs and ledges with spectacular views...
East Rock
Maine
Not many people realize that the White Mountain National Forest isn't just a New Hampshire destination. It spills over the state line into Western Maine, and one of the finest lookouts in the entire region is found atop Caribou Mountain, where you ca...
Caribou Mountain
Acadia National Park gets so hectic in the summer and early fall that some visitors seek refuge in the quieter southwest side of Mount Desert Island, away from Bar Harbor. And of all the mountains that stud this corner of the island, Flying Mountain ...
Flying Mountain
Found in the southernmost tip of Maine, less than 90 minutes from Boston by car, Mount Agamenticus was one of my late grandfather's all-time favorite places to savor the great outdoors. A labyrinth of woodland trails with wildlflowers and mild rock s...
Mount Agamenticus
Massachusetts
Mount Tom has been many things in life: an amusement park, a skiing center, and more recently, a Jekyll-and-Hyde state park and teenage vice hangout. The trails along this immense traprock mountain in the Pioneer Valley are often festooned with graff...
Mount Tom
The northernmost forests of Massachusetts can feel a world apart from the more popular destinations of the state, and that's largely because you're essentially staring into New Hampshire and Vermont. Mount Watatic, which is located close to the state...
Mount Watatic
At 3,491 feet above sea level, Mount Greylock is the tallest mountain in Massachusetts and one of the mightier mountains on this list. A stone war memorial stretches into the sky at the summit, and while many visitors come here via the mountain auto ...
Mount Greylock
New Hampshire
Mount Monadnock, which practically straddles the NH-Massachusetts state line, is believed to be the second most climbed peak in the world (Mount Fuji is the winner.) That's partly because it's only an hour-and-a-half from Boston, but the Monadnock at...
Mount Monadnock
Many years ago, farmers in central New Hampshire got so fed up with losing livestock to local wolves that they burned down areas of the local forest. One of these fires stripped Mount Cardigan of its uppermost vegetation, and today, the dome of this ...
Mount Cardigan
In the White Mountains, most summits tend to be broad and lumbering. The exception is Mount Chocorua, whose pointy pinnacle is visually distinctive from many miles away. (It almost resembles the shape of the Paramount logo.) This makes for an especia...
Mount Chocorua
Rhode Island
Okay, this one is kind of a stretch, but #1: We're talking about Rhode Island, which is kind of lacking for mountains, and #2: The story of Jerimoth Hill, the highest point in the state, is crazy. For years, the land atop the hill was partially owned...
Jerimoth Hill
Vermont
Vermont's Northeast Kingdom is the quietest corner of the state: a labyrinth of green hills, dirt roads, and swimming holes. And Mount Pisgah might just be its Everest. Its immense exposed cliffs are the stuff of local legend, and so present from the...
Mount Pisgah
All mountains are the result of geological and glacial activity, and sometimes there are remnants that puzzle. Burnt Rock Mountain, located in the northern Green Mountains, is studded with all manner of strangely colored rock formations that appear s...
Burnt Rock Mountain
A little tuffet of a mountain located south of Burlington, Mount Philo is an instant charmer with a bevy of trails that all lead to a summit where you can sit in an Adirondack chair and gaze west at the literal Adirondacks in upstate New York! How ma...
Mount Philo