Smarts Mountain is a
mountain
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in the town of
Lyme in
Grafton County,
New Hampshire
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, United States. Smarts is flanked to the north by Mount Cube, at , and to the southwest by Holts Ledge, at . Although of only moderate elevation, Smarts is separated from the southwestern
White Mountains by Oliverian Notch, a fairly low pass traversed by
New Hampshire Route 25
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The western terminus of Route 25 is at the Vermont state line on the Connecticut River in Piermont, where the ...
southwest of
Mount Moosilauke
Mount Moosilauke is a mountain at the southwestern end of the White Mountains in the town of Benton, New Hampshire, United States. It is the tenth highest and most southwesterly of the 4,000 foot summits in the White Mountains.
Moosilauke i ...
. That gives Smarts a relative height of , which makes it one of twelve mountains in New Hampshire with a
prominence
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over .
The northwest and south sides of the mountain drain by several brooks into the
Connecticut River
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and thence south into
Long Island Sound
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in
Connecticut
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. The northeast side drains east into the
South Branch of the
Baker River, and thence via the
Pemigewasset and
Merrimack rivers into the
Gulf of Maine
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in
.
Smarts Mountain is the southernmost significant mountain in New Hampshire on the
Appalachian Trail
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, a
National Scenic Trail
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from
Georgia
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to
Maine
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. Smarts is outside the
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 ...
, but the trail runs through a narrow corridor along the ridges which is administered by the
Forest Service.
There was a
Learjet plane crash on the mountain in 1996, as well as a Piper Apache twin crash in 1971.
References
External links
*
PeakBagger.com: Smarts
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Mountains on the Appalachian Trail
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