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My Trip To Cardigan Mountain
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By: Kate R.
Where Is Cardigan Mountain?
Relative Location
Cardigan Mountain is located in NH. It is West of Newfound Lake is located in Grafton County New Hampshire, which is probably the cleanest lake in New Hampshire. Firescrew is a neighboring mountain, with an elevation of 3,064 feet above sea level. If you hike up Firescrew then over to Cardigan and back down to Cardigan Lodge, you will have hiked 5.6 miles! Cardigan Lodge is a warm place that has many bunk rooms with the most of 3 bunk beds. Cardigan is surrounded by mountains and some fields much lower. It has a gorgeous view, showing off many other mountains that overlap. It has an almost completely rock top. When on top of Mountain Cardigan, you can see a fire tower, using stakes to help keep it in place. It is incredibly windy up on top of Cardigan and up there you can find many cairns, or, a stack of rocks. The towns that surround Cardigan Mountain are Orange and Alexandria in Western New Hampshire.
Absolute Location
Mount Cardigan has the latitude of 43 degrees, 64 minutes, and 9.8 seconds North and the longitude of 71 degrees, 91 minutes and 4.8 seconds West. It is across Newfound lake, one of the cleanest lake in New Hampshire. When on top of Cardigan, you can see Mount Monadnock and the White Mountains, Camel's Hump in Vermont, and Pleasant Mountain in Maine. When taking the trail up through Mountain Firescrew, you will get an early and amazing view. With a very clear view of Mt. Cardigan, you can see that 5.6 miles can reveal such a great view that you no longer feel the painful reminder you have to hike your way down the rocky terrain.
Description Of Cardigan (Place)
Mount Cardigan is a tall mountain, held high and with many tourists many times a year. English is the spoken language, and finding a man-made thing up on Cardigan will be easy. First, you should be able to see a clear building. Raised up on four stilts and staked into the mountain, you will find a fire tower high above everything else, with a nice shield of metal, protecting it from the harsh winds. You will also find many cairns, and phrases, words, names, ect. things carved into the solid rock summit.
Streams, Newfound Lake, scratches on the solid rock summit, all signs of life and nature available to be seen at Cardigan Mountain. You will find fallen logs, rotting mushrooms overtaken with bugs, and many insects. You will find many signs of life, including tunnels, burrows, ect.. Tall hemlocks stand above all other trees, along with spruce, birch, and some maples. Cardigan is beyond beautiful, with neighboring mountains, and a gorgeous view of Mt. Firescrew.
I was at Cardigan for 3 days, Wednesday, Thursday,and Friday,
Last Updated: November 28, 2022.