Welcome to your Leave No Trace!

White Mountain No amount of regulation will preserve the backcountry unless each of us makes a personal National Forest effort to lessen our impact. Always plan your trip well enough in advance to be prepared for whatever you might encounter and learn to be a “no-trace” hiker. The restrictions listed in this brochure are designed to protect overused and fragile • PLAN AHEAD AND PREPARE • LEAVE WHAT YOU FIND areas. Please use care whenever you camp or Find out about the area you will be Plants, animals, and cultural sites and hike. visiting, including any regulations or artifacts should all be left for the next

restrictions. Be sure to have maps, person to enjoy. In addition to knowing the camping proper clothing, equipment, food and restrictions, know how to keep yourself safe water. Keep your group size to 10 or • MINIMIZE CAMPFIRE IMPACTS in the mountains. Bring the right clothing less. (This is required in wilderness and Use a lightweight backpacking stove. and equipment, extra food, water, maps recommended everywhere) In some places campfires are prohibited and a flashlight. Weather changes rapidly, but stoves help minimize the impact especially above treeline. Check the weather • TRAVEL AND CAMP ON DURABLE everywhere. forecast and never be afraid to turn back. It SURFACES could save your life. Stay on the trail while hiking. Camp at • RESPECT WILDLIFE sites which have already been heavily Don’t feed, chase, or harass wildlife and Please call or stop by one of our offices for impacted, (but be sure it’s a legal site); or be sure to hang your food well out of more information, or visit our website at: www.fs.fed.us/r9/white 200’ from trails and water sources. Avoid reach of bears! moderately impacted sites where your visit could create more damage. • BE CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS NOTE: These rules are subject to Think about how your actions affect change. Please check with the Forest • DISPOSE OF WASTE PROPERLY other people. Loud noises, out of control Service when planning your trip. Carry out what you carry in; bury pets, cell phones and radios are a few human waste in a hole 4–8 inches deep, examples of what might bother other Forest Protection Areas are in effect away from water, trails, and campsites. hikers. year round.

Reprinted March 2008

HIKER RESPONSIBILITY CODE WHITE MOUNTAIN NATIONAL FOREST

You are responsible for yourself, so be prepared: PEMIGEWASSET RANGER DISTRICT BACKCOUNTRY Plymouth Office 1. With knowledge and gear. Become self reliant 1171 NH Rt. 175 by learning about the terrain, conditions, local Holderness, NH 03245 CAMPING weather and your equipment before you start. 603-536-1315 · TTY 603-536-3281 Rte 93 North to Plymouth State College exit #25. RULES 2. To leave your plans. Tell someone where you are Bear left uphill, left at fork in road at top of hill going, the trails you are hiking, when you’ll return onto Rte. 175; building is 1 mile on left. and your emergency plans. Bethlehem Office 2008/2009 3. To stay together. When you start as a group, 660 Trudeau Rd. hike as a group, end as a group. Pace your hike to Bethlehem, NH 03574 the slowest person. 603-869-2626 · TTY 603-869-3104 Approximately 1 mile off US Rte. 3 and US 4. To turn back. Weather changes quickly in the Rte. 302 on Trudeau Road. mountains. Fatigue and unexpected conditions can ANDROSCOGGIN RANGER DISTRICT also affect your hike. Know your limitations and Gorham Office when to postpone your hike. The mountains will 300 Glen Rd. be there another day. Gorham, NH 03581-1399 603-466-2713 · TTY 603-466-2856 5. For emergencies , even if you are headed out for Approximately 2.5 miles south of US Rte. 2 on just an hour. An injury, severe weather or a wrong NH Rte. 16 (Glen Road). turn could become life threatening. Don’t assume you will be rescued; know how to rescue yourself. Evans Notch Visitor Center 18 Mayville Rd. 6. To share the hiker code with others. Bethel, ME 04217-4400 207-824-2134 · TTY 207-824-3312 hikeSafe: It’s Your Responsibility. US Rte. 2, Bridge St., State Highway 26. White Mountain SACO RANGER DISTRICT 33 Kancamagus Highway National Forest The Hiker Responsibility Code Conway, NH 03818 was developed and is endorsed 603-447-5448 · TTY 603-447-3121 United States by the White Mountain National Approximately 100 yards off US Rte. 16 on the Department of Forest and Fish Kancamagus Highway. Agriculture and Game. www.hikeSafe.com USDA is an equal opportunity employer Forest Service No Camping, Wood or Charcoal • Rt. 302 from Junction Rt. 16 Glen, NH to The following restrictions apply Fires within 1/4 mile of the Junction Rt. 3 Twin Mtn. NH to all Congressionally Designated following except at designated sites: • Sawyer River Road (FR 34) Wildernesses: • South Loop Rd, (FR 92) from the • Any hut, shelter, developed tent site, cabin, junction with Rt. 3 to Garfield trailhead Caribou-Speckled Mtn. picnic area, developed day use site, or • Stillings Road (FR 506) where it passes through campground Great Gulf the National Forest • Any trailhead Presidential/Dry River • Stinson Lake Road (FR 113) where it crosses The following special areas: Brown Brook Sandwich Range • The former site of the Beaver Brook Shelter on • Tunnel Brook Road (FR 700) Pemigewasset the AT (Rt. 112) • Upper Hall Pond Road (FR 422) Wild River • Camp 13 • White Ledge Road (FR 369) where it passes • No motorized equipment or mechanical • Former Franconia Brook Campsite through National Forest transport (wheelchairs are an exception) • Jackman Overlook • Wild River Road (FR 12) • No storing of equipment, personal property or • Zeta Pass • Zealand Road (FR 16) supplies including geocaching and letter boxing The following bodies of water: No Camping, Wood or Charcoal • Hiking and camping group size must be limited • at Woodsville Water to no more than 10 Supply Dam Fires within 200 feet of: Additional regulations for Presidential/Dry River • Champney Falls The following bodies of water: and Pemigewasset: • Diana’s Bath • Black Pond • No camping, wood or charcoal fires within 200 feet of any trail except at designated campsites • East Branch of the from the • Black Mountain Pond Additional regulations for the Great Gulf Kancamagus Highway (Rt. 112) to Franconia • East Branch of the Pemigewasset River from Wilderness: Brook, including islands the Wilderness boundary to its crossing with • East Pond Thoreau Falls Trail, including islands • No wood or charcoal fires at any location • Glen Ellis Falls • Franconia Brook from its junction with the • No camping within 1/4 mile of the Great Gulf East Branch of the Pemigewasset River to the Trail between its junctions with the Sphinx and • Kiah Pond second island above Franconia Brook Falls Gulfside Trails. • Long Pond, including islands • The stream along the Smart’s Brook trail from • No camping within 200 feet of any trail except • Sabbaday Falls Rt. 49 to the beaver pond at designated sites • Sawyer Ponds - Big and Little (except at shelter The following trails: and tent platforms) • Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail • Thoreau Falls • Appalachian Trail from the summit of Mt. • Unknown Pond Moosilauke to the (except at The following trails: shelters) • Greely Ponds Trail between Kancamagus • Intersection of Cedar Brook and Hancock Highwayand first stream crossing Notch Trails to junction with Hancock Loop The following roads: Trail Special Restrictions for the Cutler River Drainage • Clay Brook Road (FR 188) • Champney Falls Trail from a point 1/4 mile from the Kancamagus Highway to Champney • Base Station Rd. (FR 173) (Including Tuckerman and Falls Huntington Ravines) • Bear Notch Road (FR 26) • Falling Waters Trail • No camping except at the Harvard Mountain • Road (FR 400) • Liberty Springs Trail Club Cabin (December 1-March 31 only) and • Breezy Point Road (FR 186) • Lower Falls Trail Hermit Lake Shelters - Fee charged • Buffalo Road (local) • Old Bridle Path • No wood or charcoal fires • Dugway Road (FR 60) from the picnic area to • Valley Way from its intersection with the Scar the Kancamagus Highway Trail to Madison Hut • Haystack Road (FR 304) from Rt. 3 to North • Wild River Trail from Wild River Campground Twin Trailhead to 1 mile south • Jefferson Notch Road (FR 220) from the Base The following roads: Station to Caps Ridge trailhead • Tripoli Rd. (FR 30) where it crosses any trail • Kancamagus Highway (Rt. 112) from Junction Camping in the Alpine Zone Rt. 302, Bath, NH to Junction Rt. 16, • Tripoli Road (FR 30) from where it crosses the (where trees are 8 feet tall or less) Conway, NH West Branch of the Mad River, BM 1949, to a point 1/2 mile east • No camping except on 2 or more feet of snow • Kiah Pond Road (FR 418) • No camping on frozen bodies of water • Lower Hall Pond Road (FR 417) No Camping, Wood or Charcoal Fires within: • No wood or charcoal fires • Mad River Road (Rt. 49) from Campton to Please note that the above treeline areas of Cutler Waterville Valley, NH • Bartlett Experimental Forest (campfires River Drainage (Tuckerman and Huntington • Noxon Road (FR 62) allowed) Ravines and the areas around them including the • Old Cherry Mountain Road (FR 14) • Research Natural Areas (camping allowed) Alpine Garden and East Snowfields) are closed to camping regardless of snow cover. • Petty Brook Road (FR 353) from Forest • Candidate Research Natural Areas (camping boundary 1/2 mile East to end of the road allowed) • Pinkham B. Road (FR 207) • Greeley Ponds Scenic Area • Rocky Branch Road (FR 27) where it passes • Mt. Chocorua Forest Protection Area through the National Forest (Exceptions: Camp Penacook camping and fires allowed. Jim Liberty Cabin - camping • Rt. 16 from Junction Rt. 2 Gorham, NH to inside cabin only is allowed - no fires) Junction Rt. 16 Glen, NH NOTE: Violating these restrictions • Rocky Gorge Scenic Area is punishable by a fine pursuant to: • Rt. 113 1/2 mile above and below Hastings 16USC551 Campground