New Hampshire which connects Maine to the rest of the Union, has an eighteen-mile stretch of Atlantic coastline and the magnificent White Mountains, which include 6,288-foot-high Mt. Washington and 182 peaks above 3,000 feet in altitude. It is almost as heavily forested and be-laked as Maine, and its mountain country makes up for the lack of the sea. The state enjoys three great vacation seasons: summer, when it's one of the traditional havens for city people fleeing the heat; fall, when its White Mountain foliage is the setting for the greatest color show on earth; and winter, when it becomes the prime ski area of the northeast. New Hampshire has thirty state parks and most of the White Mountain National Forest.
Many of its leading summer and winter resorts are situated in or near mountain passes—called "notches" here—among them Franconia, Craw-ford, Pinkham, Dixville and Kinsman. Outstanding lake resorts are located at Laconia and Lakes Winnipesaukee and Sunapee. Hampton Beach and Rye Beach are the only seaside resorts. New Hampshire has some fine traditional old resort hotels, including Bretton Woods, which won world attention when it was the scene of the United Nations Monetary Conference in 1944; the Mt. Washington Hotel; the pre-Civil War Crawford House, The Balsams, Wentworth Hall, the Waumbek, the Farragut and the Wolfeboro Inn, dating from 1812. There are a number of superior modern resorts, including the Eastern Slope Inn and the Lake Tarleton Club.
It's difficult to pinpoint New Hampshire's top ski resorts, since the whole White Mountain area is practically one great winter sports center, but some of the best developed areas include Ossipee, Franconia North, Hanover (for the Dartmouth College development and the famed Winter Carnival), Jackson, Laconia, Pinkham Notch, North Conway, Peterborough and Sunapee. Tuckerman Ravine, a natural snow bowl, offers challenging runs for expert skiers, and its season lasts well into late spring.
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