White Horse Ledge across Echo Lake
— — the cliff the lake holds up to look at.
Not only on a wall.
“Echo Lake sits at the foot of White Horse Ledge, a long granite wall about seven hundred feet high that rises from the spruce on the far shore. The lake is small and almost perfectly still on summer mornings. The cliff doubles in the water. Climbers work the slabs through the warm months. From the picnic field on the near side the wall looks closer than it is.
White Horse Ledge across Echo Lake, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Echo Lake State Park lies in North Conway, New Hampshire, in the Mount Washington Valley of the White Mountains. The park covers about 396 acres and centers on a small glacial lake under two granite cliffs: White Horse Ledge on the south and Cathedral Ledge to the north. White Horse rises roughly 700 feet above the lake. A short auto road climbs to the top of Cathedral. The park has been a state day-use site since the 1930s, with a swim beach, a picnic area, and a shoreline trail.
White Horse Ledge and its neighbor Cathedral Ledge are exposures of Conway granite, the same pink-grey rock that surfaces across much of the White Mountains. The slabs are clean enough to draw rock climbers from across New England, and several long routes were first put up in the 1930s and remain in regular use. From the lake the cliff reads as a single sheet of stone, though it is broken by tree-filled ledges where peregrine falcons sometimes nest in spring.
The park entrance is off West Side Road in North Conway, two miles from the village center. A day-use fee applies in season. The swim beach, picnic area, and shoreline trail are open spring through fall; the lake freezes through winter. The auto road to the top of Cathedral Ledge is gated in the cold months. Most photographs of the ledge reflected in the lake are taken from the near shore in the first hour after the surface settles.