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The Mount Washington Auto Road—originally the Mount Washington Carriage Road—is a 7.6-mile (12.2 km) private toll road on the east side of the mountain, rising 4,618 feet (1,408 m) from an altitude of 1,527 feet (465 m) at the bottom to 6,145 feet (1,873 m) at the top, an average gradient of 11.6%. The road was completed and opened to the ...
Aug. 23—SARGENT'S PURCHASE THE TALLEST PEAK in New England isn't famous for its height (6,288 feet). The U.S. has 450 peaks over 10,000 feet out West. But Mount Washington earns standing ...
The Mount Washington Observatory (MWObs) is a private, non-profit scientific and educational institution organized under the laws of the state of New Hampshire. The weather observation station is located on the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire .
Charlie Peachey, 24, alternates weeks living in Rye and working for the Mount Washington Observatory at the summit of the 6,288-foot-high peak.
Mount Washington Observatory is a beacon for extreme weather data. It's where a wind speed of 231 mph was measured in 1934, setting the record for the highest wind speed ever recorded in the U.S.
Mount Washington State Park is a 60.3-acre (24.4 ha) parcel perched on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, the highest peak in the northeastern United States. Summer seasonal amenities include a cafeteria, restrooms, gift shops, the Mount Washington Observatory and its museum.
Aug. 23—Mount Washington provides a close-up view of Alpine weather, and 90 years of Mount Washington Observatory data provides a window on climate. "It's hard to find trends on a day-to-day ...
The first permanent mountaintop astronomical observatory was the Lick Observatory constructed from 1876 to 1887, at the modest elevation of 1,283 m (4,209 ft) atop Mount Hamilton in California. [2] The first high altitude observatory was constructed atop the 2,877 m (9,439 ft) Pic du Midi de Bigorre in the French Pyrenees starting in 1878, with ...