Cardigan Mountain State Park
Cardigan Mountain State Park is a 5,655-acre public recreation area in Orange, New Hampshire. The state park is free to use, open year-round, and offers a hiking trail up to the 3,121-foot treeless granite summit of Mount Cardigan plus places to picnic.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Šarūnas Burdulis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: state park in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States of America
- Also known as: “Mount Cardigan State Park”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Cardigan.
Mount Cardigan
Peak
Photo: Ken Gallager, Public domain.
Mount Cardigan is a prominent bare-rock summit in the towns of Orange and Alexandria in western New Hampshire, USA. While its peak is only 3,155 feet above sea level, it has extensive areas of bare granite ledges and alpine scrub, giving it the feel to hikers of a much higher mountain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Orange and Canaan.
Orange
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Orange is a small town located in New Hampshire that was granted in 1769 and incorporated in 1790. The census of 2000 has the population at 299. The Mt. Cardigan State Park is located inside Orange.
Canaan
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Canaan is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,794 at the 2020 census. It is the location of Mascoma State Forest. Canaan is situated 4 miles west of Cardigan Mountain State Park.
Canaan Street Historic District
Neighborhood
Photo: Neil.m.young, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Canaan Street Historic District encompasses the historic original town center of Canaan, New Hampshire. It is a basically linear district, running along Canaan Street roughly from Prospect Hill Road in the north to Moss Flower Lane in the south. Canaan Street Historic District is situated 6 miles west of Cardigan Mountain State Park.
Cardigan Mountain State Park
- Categories: New Hampshire state park and tourism
- Location: Grafton, New Hampshire, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
43.64438° or 43° 38′ 40″ northLongitude
-71.93525° or 71° 56′ 7″ westElevation
3,051 feet (930 metres)Open location code
87MCJ3V7+QWOpenStreetMap ID
node 357724520OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to German—“Cardigan Mountain State Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Cardigan State Park”
- German: “Cardigan Mountain State Park”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hoyt Hill and Cardigan Rimrock.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cardigan Mountain State Park”. Photo: Šarūnas Burdulis, CC BY-SA 2.0.