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Mount Cardigan, New Hampshire

Prominence: 1890 ft, 576 m

Elevation: 3123 feet, 952 meters

True Isolation: 13.39 mi, 21.55 km

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 3123 ft / 952 m
Subpeaks	Firescrew (3040 ft/927 m) Mount Cardigan-South Peak (2864 ft/873 m)
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	43° 38' 59'' N, 71° 54' 51'' W 43.649585, -71.914251 (Dec Deg) 264977 E 4837082 N, Zone 19 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	New Hampshire
County/Second Level Region	Grafton
City/Town	Orange
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Mount Cardigan": Wikipedia Search Microsoft Bing Search Google Search Yahoo Search Other Web Sites Mount Cardigan at SummitPost.org Mount Cardigan at ListsOfJohn.com Weather for Mount Cardigan at Mountain-Forecast.com Mount Cardigan at Summits on the Air (Amateur Radio) Weather and Snow National Weather Service Forecast NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Mount Cardigan: YMCA Alpine Club List (NH) (Rank #94) New England Top 50 by Prominence (Rank #45) U.S. State Park High Points (Rank #24) New Hampshire 52 with a View (Rank #25) New Hampshire Fire Towers (Rank #2)
Ascent Info Total successful ascents logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 817 Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 702) Selected Trip Reports from this site: 1956-08-23 by Chip Carpenter 2008-10-12 by Joe Putzer 2008-11-28 by Daniel Ryan 2011-03-12 by Karen Lemieux 2011-07-15 by Ben Morrow 2012-10-13 by Jeffrey McLean 2013-09-15 by Wesley Barry (GPS Track) 2013-10-25 by Spencer Corcoran 2014-08-10 by Matthew Ledwith 2015-03-21 by Chris Calabrese 2015-03-29 by Spencer Corcoran 2015-04-17 by Spencer Corcoran 2015-05-30 by Chris Stempek (GPS Track) 2015-07-10 by Gianina Lindsey 2015-08-01 by Spencer Corcoran 2015-11-27 by Aaron Gustafson (GPS Track) 2016-04-10 by Arthur Caverly (GPS Track) 2017-08-04 by Connor McEntee (GPS Track) 2017-10-01 by Red Rum (GPS Track) 2017-10-12 by Nicholas Daniel 2017-11-17 by Evan Mugford 2019-03-09 by Floyd Greenwood 2019-08-03 by Richard Bedard (GPS Track) 2019-09-08 by Map Man 2020-06-28 by Richard Bedard (GPS Track) 2020-12-09 by Mark Akers (GPS Track) 2021-04-14 by Sean Merges
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Cardigan Summit with firetower, view from Firescrew peak (2013-05-04). Photo by Steve Blanchette.
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Prominence

Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)
  Clean Prominence: 1890 ft/576 m
  Optimistic Prominence: 1890 ft/576 m
  Line Parent: Smarts Mountain
  Key Col: Bucks Corner    1233 ft/376 m

Isolation

Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)
   Distance: 13.39 mi/21.55 km
   Isolation Limit Point: 43.8242, -72.0308
Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:
    Smarts Mountain  (NNW)

Ranges

Continent: North America
Range2: Appalachian Mountains
Range3: Northern U.S. Appalachians
Range4: New England Upland
Range5: Southern New Hampshire

Drainage Basins

Connecticut
Long Island Sound
Atlantic-Eastern USA
Atlantic Ocean

Pemigewasset
Merrimack
Atlantic-Eastern USA
Atlantic Ocean

Ownership

Land: Cardigan State Park (Highest Point)

Topo Map

Mount Cardigan O43071f8 1:24,000

Route #1

Maintained Hiking Trail

Data Source

1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map

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Mount Cardigan

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Other Photos

Fire tower on Cardigan summit (2013-05-04). Photo by Steve Blanchette.
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A lil snowy cairn on the West Ridge Trail -- I believe this one points right to an AMC junction or something. The trail to the left goes to the peak (2017-11-17). Photo by Evan Mugford.
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