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Cannon has 23 miles (37 km) of trails and a north-northeast exposure and has the only aerial tram in New Hampshire. Cannon used to have the most vertical of any ski area in New Hampshire, 2,180 feet (660 m), [citation needed] and is the eighth largest in New England. US Olympic skier Bode Miller grew up skiing at Cannon.
Cannon Mountain and its base area host a variety of year-round sports, including hiking, climbing, skiing and fishing. Visiting tourists can take in the area's scenery, an aerial tramway, summit restaurant, and a museum on the history of skiing. [5] Cannon Mountain Ski Area and Echo Lake seen from Artist's Bluff, December 2018
Cannon is also famous for being one of the most challenging hills in New England. It boasts an aerial tram, which runs year-round, ferrying sightseers to the summit in the summer time and skiers in the winter. [8] At the base of the tramway is the New England Ski Museum, with exhibits on the history of alpine skiing in New England and America. [9]
Sep. 15—CONCORD — Senior citizens will pay significantly more to ski on the weekends at state-owned Cannon Mountain, especially at peak times, after a legislative budget panel approved an ...
The other two aerial tramways open to the public are located in Estes Park, Colo., and at Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire. KTSM-TV’s Ranger Peak tramway will be open to the public daily from 10 ...
Franconia is home to the Cannon Mountain Aerial Tramway, which rises to the 4,100-foot (1,200 m) summit of Cannon Mountain. Built in 1938, it was the first passenger aerial tramway in North America. From the time of its construction in 1938 to its retirement in 1980, the original tramway carried 6,581,338 passengers to the summit of Cannon ...
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).
The Old Man of the Mountain, also called the Great Stone Face and the Profile, [1] [2] was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States, that appeared to be the jagged profile of a human face when viewed from the north.