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The Sandwich Range Wilderness was established in 1984 to protect the rugged southeastern portion of the White Mountains as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. The 35,303-acre (142.87 km 2 ) wilderness area is all within the White Mountain National Forest and managed by the U.S. Forest Service . [ 3 ]
The Ossipee Mountains are a small mountain range in the New England state of New Hampshire, United States. The remains of an ancient volcanic ring dike , [ 1 ] they lie north of Lake Winnipesaukee , east of Squam Lake , and south of the Sandwich Range , the southernmost of the White Mountains . 2,990 ft (910 m) Mount Shaw is their highest point.
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.
Other major highways in the region include U.S. Highway 302 (Woodsville to Conway), New Hampshire State Route 16 (from Gorham to Conway), State Route 10 (from Littleton to Piermont), and U.S. Route 2 from Lancaster to Shelburne. U.S. Route 3 parallels I-93, except north of Franconia Notch, where it branches off to Twin Mountain and Whitefield.
Sandwich Mountain (or Sandwich Dome) is a 3,983 ft (1,214 m) mountain located on the border between Carroll and Grafton counties, New Hampshire spanning parts of the towns of Sandwich and Waterville Valley, respectively. The mountain is part of the Sandwich Range of the White Mountains.
The Ossipee ring-dike complex of central New Hampshire is a visible remnant of a 125 million year old Cretaceous stratovolcano, a member of the later White Mountain igneous province. The complex is circular as viewed on maps and has a diameter of 9 miles (14 km). [3] The ring-dike complex is easy to identify within web-browsed satellite images ...
Mount Passaconaway is a 4,043 ft (1,232 m) mountain in the Sandwich Range Wilderness of the White Mountain National Forest in Grafton County, New Hampshire, near Waterville Valley. It is named after Passaconaway , a 16th-century sachem of the Pennacook tribe, whose name was also attached to a small village in Albany , where the northern ...
New Hampshire Route 41 (abbreviated NH 41) is a 5.033-mile-long (8.100 km) north–south state highway in east-central New Hampshire. It is the main road connecting Silver Lake with Ossipee . The highway skirts the western edge of the lake named Silver Lake and provides access to local roads at the lakeside.