There are 161 miles of the Appalachian Trail in New Hampshire. The Trail enters New Hampshire in Hanover along the Vermont state line and heads northeast into the White Mountain National Forest and exits at Grafton Notch near Bethel, Maine.
My friend and I planned a trip to the White Mountains for the weekend of October 21st. Her main objective was to go zip lining at Alpine Adventures. Mine was to hike a section of the Appalachian Trail. The hike that was most appealing to me, Franconia Ridge Trail, takes six and a half hours to complete. The fact that I had only four hours to hike was somewhat limiting.
We made our way up the Kancamagus Highway around 2pm toward the Lafayette Place Campground parking lot. On the way, we saw an AT sign for Liberty Springs and stopped off.
That hike would have taken too long, so we continued on to where we thought the Cascade Brook trail head was located. The guide at Alpine Adventures gave us the wrong information, which left us scrambling to find a way to get an AT hike in before sunset. Eventually, we located it on a section not far from Basin.
It wasn’t exactly what I had in mind, but the colors of fall made up for what the hike lacked. It left me longing for a return trip to New Hampshire before winter sets in.
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