Mount Washington State Park closes following spectacular season!

By Patrick Hummel, Mount Washington State Park Supervisor

With the summit Visitor Center and its services now closed for the 2022 season at our 6,288’ Mount Washington State Park, the Park staff at the top of the mountain would like to thank all of our guests for visiting this year! Mount Washington State Park staff welcomed and served 300,000 people from all over the world in just 5 months, coming to the Park via the Mount Washington Cog Railway, Mount Washington Auto Road, and the various hiking trails to experience Mount Washington’s extreme weather and awe inspiring beauty.

A long winter working in the mountain’s harshest conditions still awaits our NH State Parks crew at the summit, who will continue round-the-clock staffing of the highest point in the northeast while maintaining, repairing, and looking after all of the summit’s buildings, facilities, systems, and grounds. But, the State Park staff will also be preparing everything for the 2023 season! Here are some glimpses from this Fall on the mountain, by our Park Supervisor Patrick Hummel. (@topofthenortheast

*September and October featured touches of the winter to come, as seen here in this photo from*
*October 8^th, 2022.*

*Long work days can have the rewards of sunset views, like this one of neighboring (L to R) Mounts Jefferson, Adams, and Madison*.

*Not such a bad work commute for our State Park staff…an early Fall morning just after sunrise on the Mount Washington Auto Road.*

Meteorologist Chuck Lofton of WTHR in Indianapolis “adventured” to Mount Washington State Park on October 10^th. Here he is alongside our Park Supervisor, Patrick Hummel, getting a taste of the mountain’s famously fickle weather.

*The Mount Washington Cog Railway climbing to the summit above the backdrop of the valley’s Fall foliage.*

*The summit sign and the weather instrument tower of our Mount Washington Summit Building, utilized by the Mount Washington Observatory, in a Fall coating of ice and snow.*

*It’s “lights out” for the 2022 season, but Mount Washington State Park will be ready to see everyone in 2023!*

andrew-keohan

Hi all, nice to meet you, I’m Andrew Keohan a Business and Tourism major up at Plymouth State University. For those of you not familiar with the small college town of Plymouth, it’s nestled beneath the towering wilderness of the White Mountains, a perfect spot to be for outdoor adventure. In my final year at Plymouth, I am excited and looking forward to blogging for the NH State Parks. When I am out on weekend adventures, I will be going to parks and recreation areas I am familiar with and others I don’t have a clue about. My goal is to give my blog readers an experience of what it is actually like to go to these parks and make you want to get up and get outdoors in the beauty of what New Hampshire has to offer. Hopefully, I will blog about places you had no idea existed, if not, well they are still worth going to again! If I can get just a couple of my readers to go out and want to experience the places I have been than I’ve done my job!

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