List of Mountains in New Hampshire is a general list of mountains in

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, with elevation. This list includes many mountains in the White Mountains range that covers about a quarter of the state, as well as mountains outside of that range. Some are included in lists of mountains, such as the

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(AMC) list of the Hundred Highest peaks of New England, or the subset with elevations of over — the "4000 Footers". (Many peaks with sufficient elevation are excluded from the AMC lists because they are not considered to have sufficient

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. An example is the Mount Clay, north-northwest along the ridge joining the peak of Mount Washington with that of Mount Jefferson, and rising about above the general trend of that ridge.) The

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(AT), a

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from

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, runs through New Hampshire, crossing many of the mountain peaks. Several mountains are the sites of major

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United States Board on Geographic Names – Geographic Names Information System
* DeLorme's ''New Hampshire Atlas and Gazetteer'' *

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7.5-minute/7.5x15-minute topographic map series {{Mountains of New Hampshire *

Mountains

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