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Great North Woods and Dixville Notch

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Recorded distance
114 km
Riding-time estimate
2 h 09
Journey
Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis

The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.

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Why this ride

Long, empty northern roads with lakes, wildlife and a sharp notch crossing. The road: NH-16 and US-3. Distance and riding time are estimates from the checkpoints until the road is measured on this page.

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

  1. 1. Gorham

    Gorham sits where the Androscoggin River bends out of the Great North Woods and meets the northern end of the White Mountains, in a small, plain-spoken railroad town that has never tried very hard to be pretty. It does not need to. Look south on a clear day and the Presidential Range stands over the rooftops, with Mount Washington, at 6,288 feet the high point of the Northeast, wearing its own weather like a hat.

    Read the complete Gorham write-up.

  2. 2. Errol

  3. 3. Dixville Notch

  4. 4. 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.

    Read the complete Colebrook write-up.

  5. 5. Pittsburg

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