Mount Eisenhower
Mount Eisenhower (formerly Mount Pleasant) is a mountain in the
Presidential Range in the
White Mountains of
New Hampshire that is approximately 4,780 ft. (1451 m) high and is named after
President Eisenhower. Its summit offers a 360° view of New Hampshire's mountains. It is inaccessible by road.
The
Appalachian Trail crosses the mountain near its summit, but separates from the Crawford Path at 4400 feet, 0.3 mi. (500 m) south of the summit, and rejoins it 0.3 mi. northeast of the summit, having made a net elevation gain of about 40 feet (15 m) and reached a maximum on Eisenhower of about 4520 feet (1380 m).
The shortest trail route to the summit of Eisenhower is from a parking lot on Mount Clinton Road, to its
westnorthwest, via primarily the Edmands Path. Several routes are available from points more or less southwest of it on
Route 302; the most used of these (probably roughly equal in popularity to the Edmands route) is via the Crawford Path, starting from a parking lot on Mount Clinton Road, very near 302 and just north of the
Highland Center in the
Crawford Notch area.
Mount Monroe lies on the ridge northeast of Mt. Eisenhower, and
Mount Pierce to the southwest. All three of these peaks are included on the
peak-bagging list of
four-thousand footers in New Hampshire.
Mount Franklin, an "unofficial" peak (not
prominent enough to be included in the list), lies between Mount Eisenhower and Mount Monroe.
After WW II,
Castle Mountain in the
Canadian Rockies was renamed to Mt. Eisenhower following the visit by President Eisenhower. However, public pressure eventually caused the name to be restored in 1983 and an isolated pinnacle on the massif was named Eisenhower Tower.
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