Mount Garfield is a
mountain
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located in
Grafton County,
New Hampshire
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. The mountain is part of the
White Mountains. Mt. Garfield is flanked to the east by
South Twin Mountain, and to the southwest along Garfield Ridge by
Mount Lafayette
Mount Lafayette is a mountain at the northern end of the Franconia Range in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, United States. It lies in the town of Franconia in Grafton County, and appears on the New England Fifty Finest list of the most ...
.
The south faces of Garfield drain into the Franconia Branch of the
East Branch of the Pemigewasset River
The East Branch of the Pemigewasset River is a river located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Pemigewasset River, part of the Merrimack River watershed.
The East Branch is a longer and larg ...
, through the
Pemigewasset Wilderness
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The Wilderness Area consi ...
, thence into the
Pemigewasset and
Merrimack rivers, and into the
Gulf of Maine
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at
Newburyport, Massachusetts
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. The north faces of Garfield drain into the
north
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T ...
and
south
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branches of the
Gale River
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, thence into the
Ammonoosuc and
Connecticut
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rivers, and into
Long Island Sound
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at
Old Saybrook, Connecticut
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.
The
Appalachian Trail
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, a 2,170-mile (3,500-km)
National Scenic Trail
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from
Georgia
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* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
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to
Maine
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, runs along the ridge, across the summit of Garfield.
See also
*
List of mountains in New Hampshire
List of Mountains in New Hampshire is a general list of mountains in New Hampshire, with elevation. This list includes many mountains in the White Mountains range that covers about a quarter of the state, as well as mountains outside of that rang ...
*
White Mountain National Forest
The White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) is a federally managed forest contained within the White Mountains in the northeastern United States. It was established in 1918 as a result of the Weeks Act of 1911; federal acquisition of land had alrea ...
References
External links
Hiking Mount Garfield Appalachian Mountain Club.
*
"Mt. Garfield Hiking Guide" FranklinSites.com.
Mountains of New Hampshire
Mountains of Grafton County, New Hampshire
New England Four-thousand footers
Mountains on the Appalachian Trail
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