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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.
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.
Profile Lake is a 13-acre (53,000 m 2) water body located in Franconia Notch in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, at the foot of Cannon Mountain. [1] The lake was given its name due to its location directly beneath the Old Man of the Mountain, a famous rock formation which collapsed in 2003.
For generations, the visage of a stony-faced man watched over New Hampshire's Franconia Notch State Park from the cliffside. The human profile carved by Mother Nature into the unique rock ...
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).
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New Hampshire has the shortest ocean coastline of any U.S. coastal state, with a length of 18 miles (29 km), [3] sometimes measured as only 13 miles (21 km). [4] New Hampshire was home to the rock formation called the Old Man of the Mountain, a face-like profile in Franconia Notch, until the formation disintegrated in May 2003.
The Old Man of the Mountain, a famous geologic feature in New Hampshire, was made of Conway granite. [4] (The rock formation collapsed in 2003.) The rock formation collapsed in 2003.) Conway granite is found throughout the lower areas of the central White Mountains , such as Franconia Notch , Crawford Notch , the center of the Pemigewasset ...