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Bretton Woods, where the tired can unwind at the Mt. Washington Hotel, a white palace of
a place that sits in the shadows of the great peak.
The Saco River flows through Crawford Notch, a spectacular steep-sided valley with exposed rock cliffs.
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Crawford Notch State Park
Hot on the trail of an elusive moose in 1771, a hunter by the name of Timothy Nash
stumbled upon a gap in the mountains that no white man had ever seen. Today that steep-
sided cleft is known as Crawford Notch, a rugged pass where the Saco River scoots
between rocky ramparts washed by water racing down from the uplands. Crawford Notch
can be seen from the road, while Arethusa Falls, the highest waterfall in the state, can be
reached by a hike that passes Frankenstein Cliff, whose monstrous wall—covered with a
glistening sheath of ice in winter—rises to an elevation of 2,451 feet.
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Mt. Attitash
ThefamiliarsightofrushingwateraccompaniestheroadasitsnakesbesidetheSacoRiver.
Just a little east of Bartlett, the trails of the ski area on Mt. Attitash trace thin lines among
the trees—streamers of white in winter and ribbons of green in summer. Visitors can ride a
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