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December 5, 2016

RR owners want to build fancy lodge on N.H. peak

  • The railway runs 3 miles up the highest peak in the Northeast, and became the world's first-mountain-climbing cog railway when it was built in 1869.
    • By KATHY McCORMACK
    Associated Press

    CONCORD, N.H. — The owners of a historic cog railway that climbs up New Hampshire's Mount Washington, the highest peak in the Northeast, want to build an upscale hotel a mile from the summit, in keeping with hotels that once graced the mountain in the 1800s, and to accommodate an increasing number of summer tourists.

    The 6,288-foot Mount Washington has been attracting more tourists in New Hampshire's North Country with the loss of the Old Man of the Mountain, a granite profile and state symbol that crumbled in 2003. It draws over 300,000 guests annually.


     
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