Mount Eisenhower
Template:For Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox mountain Mount Eisenhower, formerly Mount Pleasant, is a mountain in the Presidential Range in the White Mountains of New Hampshire approximately Template:Convert high.<ref name="gnis"/> Named after President Dwight D. Eisenhower, its summit offers a 360° view. It is inaccessible by road.
The Crawford Path, carrying the Appalachian Trail, crosses the mountain near its summit.<ref>Daniell, Gene, and Smith, Steven D. White Mountain Guide. 28th ed. AMC Books, 2007. Template:ISBN. 41</ref> It separates from the summit loop trail at Template:Convert, Template:Convert south of the summit, and rejoins it Template:Convert northeast of the summit, having made a net elevation gain of about Template:Convert and reached a maximum on Eisenhower of about Template:Convert.
The mountain was known as Mount Pleasant until the New Hampshire Legislature voted in 1969 to name it after President Eisenhower, and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names agreed in 1970.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The shortest trail route to the summit of Eisenhower is from a parking lot on Mount Clinton Road, to its west-northwest, via primarily the Edmands Path. Several routes are available from points more or less southwest of it on Route 302; the most used of these (probably roughly equal in popularity to the Edmands route) is via the Crawford Path, starting from a parking lot on Mount Clinton Road, very near 302 and just north of the Highland Center in the Crawford Notch area. Mount Monroe lies on the ridge northeast of Mt. Eisenhower, and Mount Pierce to the southwest. All three of these peaks are included on the peak-bagging list of four-thousand footers in New Hampshire. Mount Franklin, an "unofficial" peak (not prominent enough to be included in the list), lies between Mount Eisenhower and Mount Monroe.
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- summitpost.org:Mount Eisenhower climbing info
- PeakBagger.com: Mount Eisenhower
- hikethewhites.com hiking information
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