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This is a list of mountain passes — generally called notches — in New Hampshire in the United States ... Zealand Notch: 872973: between Bethlehem and Lincoln ...
North of the notch's height of land, the Zealand River flows north to the Ammonoosuc River near the village of Twin Mountain, with the streamflow eventually reaching the Connecticut River and turning south again to ultimately reach Long Island Sound. The notch lies between Whitewall Mountain (3,405 ft./1,038 m.) to the east and Zeacliff (approx ...
A gap is a geological formation that is a low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range. It may be called a col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, or wind gap. Geomorphologically, a gap is most often carved by water erosion from a freshet, stream or a river. [1]
Idealised mountain pass represented as the green line; the saddle point is in red.. Mountain passes make use of a gap, saddle, col or notch.A topographic saddle is analogous to the mathematical concept of a saddle surface, with a saddle point marking the minimum high point between two valleys and the lowest point along a ridge.
Covered bridge near the Flume A hiking trail through Franconia Notch The Basin. Franconia Notch State Park is a public recreation area and nature preserve that straddles eight miles (13 km) of Interstate 93 as it passes through Franconia Notch, a mountain pass between the Kinsman Range and Franconia Range in the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire, United States.
Notch Mountain is located 50 miles (80 km) east of Salt Lake City in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. [2] It is situated in the western Uinta Mountains which are a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains north into headwaters of the Weber River and south into headwaters of the Provo River.
Franconia Notch (elev. 1,950 feet/590 m) is a major mountain pass through the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Dominated by Cannon Mountain to the west and Mount Lafayette to the east, it lies principally within Franconia Notch State Park and is traversed by the Franconia Notch Parkway ( Interstate 93 and U.S. Route 3 ).
A col in geomorphology is the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks. [1] It may also be called a gap or pass. [1] Particularly rugged and forbidding cols in the terrain are usually referred to as notches. They are generally unsuitable as mountain passes, but are occasionally crossed by mule tracks or climbers' routes.