Credits & Sources

Thank you to the photographers who share their work freely. Photos licensed under Creative Commons have been resized for this site but are otherwise unchanged.

Photos

All photos on the My Hikes page, and those credited to Ted Hall elsewhere on the site, are by Ted Hall. Please ask before reusing them.

• Mount Washington in fall, behind the Omni Mount Washington Resort (home page): Kristen Coates, USDA Forest Service, White Mountain National Forest, October 2, 2024. Public domain. Source
• The Presidential Range in October (home and Hiking pages): AlexiusHoratius. CC BY-SA 3.0. Source
• Mount Washington from Bretton Woods in winter (Mount Washington page): wwoods. CC BY-SA 3.0. Source
• Tip-Top House (Mount Washington and History pages): AlexiusHoratius. CC BY-SA 3.0. Source
• Tuckerman Ravine, March 10, 2022 (Mount Washington page): Ggbie. CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
• Mount Washington, New Hampshire (Mount Washington page): Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1870, Cleveland Museum of Art. Public domain. Source
• Jefferson, Adams, and Madison from Mount Moriah (Peaks page): AlexiusHoratius. CC BY-SA 3.0. Source
• Washington, Monroe, Franklin, and Eisenhower (Peaks page): Ken Gallager. CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
• Madison Spring Hut, 2001 (Huts page): photographer not identified, released into the public domain. Source
• Mizpah Spring Hut (Huts page): Sdkb. CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
• Cog Railway locomotive No. 2, Ammonoosuc (Cog Railway page): King of Hearts. CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
• Cog Railway locomotive No. 9, Waumbek (Cog Railway page): Todd Fowler. CC BY-SA 2.0. Source
• Mount Washington Observatory tower (Weather page): Famartin. CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
• Rime ice (Weather page): Ws47. CC BY-SA 3.0. Source
• The Appalachian Trail on Mount Adams (Hiking page): Fredlyfish4. CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
• Glen House stage near the summit (History page): Kilburn Brothers, about 1864–1892, New York Public Library. Public domain. Cropped from a stereo card. Source
• Tip-Top House (History page): Kilburn Brothers, about 1864–1892, New York Public Library. Public domain. Cropped from a stereo card. Source
• Ascending the Carriage Road (History page): Kilburn Brothers, about 1864–1892, New York Public Library. Public domain. Cropped from a stereo card. Source
• The Cog Railway track, about 1865–1870 (History page): Rijksmuseum. Public domain (CC0). Cropped from a book page. Source
• Summit House and railway trains, 1883 (History page): Library of Congress. Public domain. Cropped. Source
• Summit House after a frost storm, about 1930 (History page): Shorey Studio postcard. Public domain. Cropped. Source
• The Ledge, Mt. Washington Carriage Road (Auto Road page): Kilburn Brothers, about 1864–1892, New York Public Library. Public domain. Cropped from a stereo card. Source
• The view from the upper Auto Road (Auto Road page): EgorovaSvetlana. CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
• Krummholz along the Auto Road (Alpine Zone page): Famartin. CC BY-SA 4.0. Source
• Robbins' cinquefoil (Alpine Zone page): USDA Forest Service, White Mountain National Forest. Public domain. Source
• White Mountain avens (Alpine Zone page): Doug McGrady. CC BY 2.0. Source
• Diapensia (Alpine Zone page): Doug McGrady. CC BY 2.0. Source
• White Mountain fritillary (Alpine Zone page): Samantha Derrenbacher, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Public domain. Source

Sources

Facts on this site were checked against these sources. For current conditions, trail status, and safety information, always rely on the official organizations listed.

• Mount Washington Observatory, including "A Look at The Big Wind" and "Brutal Cold on Mount Washington"
• Wikipedia: Mount Washington
• Wikipedia: Presidential Range
• USDA Forest Service: White Mountain National Forest
• Mount Washington Avalanche Center
• Mount Washington Observatory: "The World's Worst Weather"
• Wikipedia: Mount Washington Cog Railway
• Wikipedia: High Huts of the White Mountains
• Wikipedia: Four-thousand footers, and the Wikipedia articles on each peak
• hikeSafe (White Mountain National Forest and NH Fish and Game)
• Appalachian Mountain Club
• Mount Washington Cog Railway
• Trail distances and elevation gains: AllTrails
• Live weather readings, 24-hour charts, summit vs. valley comparison, and forecast: National Weather Service stations KMWN (Mount Washington), KBML (Berlin), and KHIE (Whitefield), and the NWS forecast office in Gray, Maine, via api.weather.gov
• Weather alerts: National Weather Service active alerts for the summit, via api.weather.gov
• Sunrise and sunset: calculated with NOAA's solar position equations, checked against the U.S. Naval Observatory
• Auto Road history: Wikipedia: Mount Washington Auto Road and the Mount Washington Auto Road
• Satellite image: NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, GOES-East
• River readings: U.S. Geological Survey gauge 01054114, Peabody River at Gorham
• Map: Leaflet; map tiles from OpenTopoMap (CC BY-SA), based on OpenStreetMap data, and from the USGS National Map; marker positions from Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap
• Wikipedia: Crawford Path, Tip-Top House, Robbins' cinquefoil, and Geum peckii