Mount Passaconaway
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Mount Passaconaway is a 4043-foot (1232-m) mountain in the Sandwich Range Wilderness of the White Mountain National Forest near the eastern edge of Waterville Valley. It is named after Passaconaway, a 16th century chieftain of a nearby tribe of native americans, whose name was also attached to a small village in Albany, where the northern trailhead is now located.
It is ranked 42d in elevation on the list of 48 White Mountains four-thousand footers. On the original 1931 list of 4000-footers, it was ranked 26th, with an elevation of 4,116 feet, although the 1931 topographic map shows it as 4,060 feet. The 1946 topographic map indicates it is 4,043.
The thickly wooded summit may be approached from trailheads to the north (on the Kancamagus Highway) or from Wonalancet to the south. Old maps show a "Passaconaway Lodge" or "shelter" on the southeast aspect of the mountain, and the 4,000-footer guidebook mentions that it was built in 1891, rebuilt several times, but removed in 2000 after having collapsed.
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- Smith, Stephen; Dickerman, Mike (2001). The 4,000 Footers of the White Mountains. Littleton: Bondcliff Books. ISBN 1-931271-01-1.
- USGS Topographic map, Chocorua Quadrangle, 1931, northeast segment, viewed at UNH historic map collection
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