Other Summits
Aside from the notable summits, the geological Presidential Range contains a number of additional named peaks. Several of these peaks, drained on their west faces by the Dry River, are less accessible than the main and most visited ridge of the range.
Subsidiary peaks of Mount Washington:
- Ball Crag (6,106 ft)
- Nelson Crag (5,620 ft)
- Boott Spur (5,500 ft)
North from Mount Washington:
- Mt. Bowman (3,449 ft) (spur of Mount Jefferson)
South from Mount Washington:
- Engine Hill (3,100 ft)
- Maple Mountain (2,601 ft)
- Iron Mountain (2,726 ft)
- Montalban Ridge:
- Mt. Isolation (4,004 ft)*
- Mt. Davis (3,819 ft)
- Stairs Mountain (3,463 ft)
- Mt. Resolution (3,415 ft)
- Bemis Ridge:
- Mt. Crawford (3,119 ft)
- Mt. Hope (2,505 ft)
- Mt. Parker (3,004 ft)
- Mt. Langdon (2,390 ft)
- Mt. Pickering (1,945 ft) (family name of first president of Appalachian Mountain Club)
- Mt. Stanton (1,716 ft)
The summits marked with an asterisk (*) are included on the peak-bagging list of 4,000-foot and higher mountains in New Hampshire; the others are excluded, in some cases because of lesser height and in others because of more technical criteria.
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