Mount Pierce (New Hampshire)

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Mount Pierce
Elevation 4,310 feet (1,314 m)
Location New Hampshire, USA
Range Presidential Range
Prominence 235 ft (72 m)
Coordinates 44°13.56′N, 71°21.96′W
Topo map USGS Stairs Mountain
Easiest route Hike (Crawford Path)
Listing White Mountain 4000-footers

Mount Pierce (formerly Mount Clinton, although the newer name is not universally accepted) is a mountain in the Presidential Range in the White Mountains of New Hampshire that is approximately 4,310 feet (1,314 m) high and is named after President Franklin Pierce, the only president born in New Hampshire. Its summit offers a wide view of New Hampshire's mountains. It is inaccessible by road.

The shortest trail route to the summit of Pierce is from a parking lot to the west of the mountain on Mount Clinton Road just off Route 302. The trail primarily follows Crawford Path, the oldest continually used hiking trail in the United States. The Appalachian Trail and Webster Cliff Trail approach from Mount Jackson in the south and meet Crawford Path just north of the summit before continuing to the northeast. Mount Eisenhower and Mount Monroe lie on the ridge northeast of Mt. Pierce. All three of these peaks are included on the peak-bagging list of four-thousand footers in New Hampshire.

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4000-foot mountains of New England

Maine:
Baxter State Park: Katahdin (Baxter) • Katahdin (Hamlin) • North Brother
High Peaks: Abraham • Crocker • Redington • Saddleback • Saddleback, The Horn • South Crocker • Spaulding • Sugarloaf
Bigelow Range: Bigelow (Avery) • Bigelow (West)
Eastern White Mountains: Old Speck

New Hampshire:
Northern ranges: Cabot • Waumbek
Carter-Moriah Range: Carter Dome • Middle Carter • Moriah • South Carter • Wildcat (A) • Wildcat (D)
Presidential Range: Adams • Eisenhower • Jackson • Jefferson • Isolation • Madison • Monroe • Pierce • Washington
Crawford Notch area: Field • Tom • Willey
Twin Range: Bond • Bond (West) • Bondcliff • Galehead • Hale • North Twin • South Twin • Zealand
Pemigewasset Wilderness: Carrigain • Hancock (North) • Hancock (South) • Owl's Head
Sandwich Range: Osceola • Osceola (East) • Tripyramid (Middle) • Tripyramid (North) • Passaconaway • Tecumseh • Whiteface
Franconia Range: Flume • Garfield • Lafayette • Liberty • Lincoln
Western White Mountains: Cannon • Kinsman (North) • Kinsman (South) • Moosilauke

Vermont:
Green Mountains: Abraham • Camel's Hump • Ellen • Killington • Mansfield
 
 
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