Mount Crescent is a mountain located in the Crescent Range of the White Mountains in

Randolph, New Hampshire Randolph is a heavily forested town in Coös County, New Hampshire, United States, extending from the northern slopes of the White Mountains of the Presidential Range (to the south) to the Crescent Range and Berlin (to the north), with U.S. Rout ...

. It is 3,251 ft (991 m) high, and its summit is the second highest mountain summit in Randolph, after

Black Crescent Mountain Black Crescent Mountain is a mountain in the Crescent Range of the White Mountains, north of Randolph and southwest of Berlin in New Hampshire. The summit is on the eastern boundary of the White Mountain National Forest The White Mountain ...

(3,264 feet, 995 m). Both mountains are in Randolph's Ice Gulch Town Forest. On the 1896 topographic map, Mount Crescent is shown as "Randolph Mtn." with an elevation of 3,280 ft, and Black Crescent is shown as "Mt. Crescent" with an elevation of 3,322 ft. The southeast side of Mount Crescent drains into Moose Brook, thence into the

Androscoggin River The Androscoggin River ( Abenaki: ''Aləssíkαntekʷ'') is a river in the U.S. states of Maine and New Hampshire, in northern New England. It is U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, ...

, which drains into

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, the

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of the Kennebec River, and thence into the

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. The southwest end of Mt. Crescent drains into Carlton Brook, thence into the Moose River, a different stream which is also a tributary of the Androscoggin River. The northwest side of Crescent drains into the

Upper Ammonoosuc River The Upper Ammonoosuc River is a tributary of the Connecticut River that flows through Coös County in the northern part of the northeastern U.S. state of New Hampshire. Despite its name, the river is not an upstream portion of the Ammonoosuc Riv ...

, thence into Connecticut River, which drains into Long Island Sound in

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. Mount Crescent may be reached by hiking trails from either the north, via Pond of Safety Road (sometimes shown as Stag Hollow Road) and Bog Dam Road, or from the south, via Randolph Hill Road.

External links

Peakbagger.com: Mount Crescent, New Hampshire
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1896 topo segment at UNH
Mountains of New Hampshire Mountains of Coös County, New Hampshire {{NewHampshire-geo-stub

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