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The list includes 20 peaks in Maine, 15 in Vermont, 14 in New Hampshire, and one in Massachusetts. This list differs substantially from lists of peaks by elevation, such as the New England 4000 Footers .
4000 footers – listed on the four-thousand footers, peaks with an elevation of over 4,000 feet (1,200 m), per the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) 50 Finest – listed on the New England Fifty Finest; AT – mountain is on the Appalachian Trail, a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) National Scenic Trail from Georgia to Maine
The White Mountains Four Thousand Footers List was established by the Appalachian Mountain Club in 1957. [2] The AMC calls it the White Mountains List, but others call it the New Hampshire List because it does not include Old Speck Mountain (4,170 ft) in Maine, which is outside the White Mountain National Forest but within the White Mountains.
Mount Tecumseh is the site of the Waterville Valley Resort, one of the largest ski areas in New Hampshire. Long believed to stand 4,003 feet in height, Mt. Tecumseh was the lowest on the Appalachian Mountain Club list of "four-thousand footers." As of July 2019, however, a new survey marker on the summit indicates an elevation of 3,997 feet. [3]
The White Mountains also include the Franconia Range, Sandwich Range, Carter-Moriah Range and Kinsman Range in New Hampshire, and the Mahoosuc Range straddling the border between it and Maine. In all, there are 48 peaks within New Hampshire as well as one (Old Speck Mountain) in Maine over 4,000 feet (1,200 m), known as the four-thousand footers.
It is best known as one of the 48 White Mountains "four-thousand footers", and stands out among them mostly for what it lacks: In height, it is 43rd of the 48. It is the only one of the 48 without an officially maintained path to the summit, although an unofficial, unmaintained herd path comes within 0.2 miles (300 m).
While not strictly part of the range, Wildcat Mountain (1,345 m / 4,422 ft) * stands southwest of Carter Dome, facing it across Carter Notch. The summits marked with an asterisk (*) are included on the Appalachian Mountain Club's peak-bagging list of "four-thousand footers" in New Hampshire; the others are excluded, in some cases because of insufficient elevation and in others because of ...
[2] Cabot is drained by various brooks on the west side into the Israel River and on the east into the West Branch of the Upper Ammonoosuc River, and thence into the Connecticut River and Long Island Sound. Cabot is one of the Appalachian Mountain Club's "four-thousand footers", the northernmost in New Hampshire.