Mount Lafayette ridge Franconia
— — the long ridge that opens to the sky.
Not only on a wall.
“The high point of the Franconia Range, west of the Presidentials. About 5,249 feet, the tallest peak in New Hampshire outside the Presidential Range. The Greenleaf Hut sits on its western shoulder; the open ridge south to Lincoln and Little Haystack is one of the most walked alpine traverses in the eastern United States. from the studio
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The place, in three passes.
Mount Lafayette rises to 5,249 feet above Franconia Notch in the White Mountain National Forest, the seventh-highest peak in New Hampshire and the highest outside the Presidential Range. The name honors the Marquis de Lafayette, the French general who served in the American Revolution, and was given in the early 19th century during the same wave of naming that produced the Presidentials. The mountain anchors the northern end of Franconia Ridge.
The upper mountain is fully alpine, above the krummholz line near 4,800 feet, exposed to weather sweeping in from the west across the Connecticut Valley. From the summit the open ridge runs roughly 1.7 miles south over Mount Lincoln to Little Haystack, with continuous views east into Pemigewasset Wilderness and west across Cannon Mountain. The exposure is real; the ridge has no shelter and the wind crosses it without anything to break it.
The standard route is the Franconia Ridge Loop from the Lafayette Place trailhead off I-93: up the Falling Waters Trail, north along the open ridge over Little Haystack and Lincoln to Lafayette, and down the Greenleaf and Old Bridle Path. The full loop is about 8.9 miles with 3,900 feet of climb. The Greenleaf Hut, run by the Appalachian Mountain Club, sits at 4,200 feet on the western shoulder and serves as the standard refuge on the descent.