Connecticut River North Country

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

1. 1. Hanover

   Hanover is a town that exists around a college, and you feel it the moment you roll in. Dartmouth, founded in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock to educate Native American students and the sons of colonists, owns the centre of the place, a long, broad green surrounded by white clapboard and red brick. The Appalachian Trail runs straight along Main Street here, so it is common to see hikers with muddy boots and heavy packs buying sandwiches next to students in fleece. Theodor Geisel, who became Dr. Seuss, studied here and edited the humour magazine.

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2. 2. Haverhill

3. 3. Littleton

4. 4. Lancaster

5. 5. Colebrook

   Colebrook sits at the top of New Hampshire, where the Connecticut River is a modest stream and the border with Canada is a short ride away. It is a small town, with fewer than two thousand people, in a landscape of dark spruce, wide valleys and a feeling of space that southern New England has mostly lost. The Great North Woods, as the region is called, run from here to the Maine line, with more moose than traffic lights, and Colebrook is the sort of place where the diner does a quiet trade in logging crews and the odd rider on a long loop.

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