Map of New Hampshire highlighting Coos County

The Cohos Trail is a hiking

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running through northern

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in the

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, connecting the northern and southern ends of Coos County. It begins at Notchland, near Crawford Notch State Park, and follows a series of trails to the

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of Fabyans, then over Cherry Mountain to the

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, over

Mount Waumbek Mount Waumbek is a mountain located in Coos County, New Hampshire. The mountain is part of the Pliny Range of the White Mountains. Waumbek is flanked to the northeast by Mount Weeks, to the west by Mount Starr King, and to the southeast by ...

, along the Kilkenny Ridge Trail to Stark, through Nash Stream Forest to

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, and north to the

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and finally the Canada–US border at the southern edge of

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. There it connects with the Sentier Frontalier's trail to Mount Megantic and Mount Gosford in Canada. The final section of the trail was completed in 2011, 33 years after it was first proposed by Kim Nilsen, then a newspaper reporter, who became the trail's chief architect.Hiker completes creation of 162-mile trail
Billy Baker, Boston Globe, October 16, 2011

References

* Nilsen, Kim Robert (2000). ''The Cohos Trail: The Guidebook to New Hampshire's Great Unknown''. North Hampton, NH: Nicolin Fields Publishing. . (Mr. Nilson is founder of the Cohos Trail. There is also a 2006 edition of the book.)

accessed 18 January 2007. * New Hampshire Public TV: ''Windows to the Wild: Discovering the Cohos Trail'' *
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Photo gallery

External links

Cohos Trail Association website

Journals and Photos from people hiking the Cohos Trail
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