![]() ![]() Maps: Check out The AMC White Mountain Guide ($21.95, Appalachian Mountain Club, 80) for trail descriptions and maps. The Freedom Trail is a 2.5-mile-long (4.0 km) path 1 through Boston that passes by 17 locations significant to the history of the United States. The trailhead is about 6 miles north of Jackson, on Carter Notch Road, just off NH 16B. If you have time and energy left, several interconnecting trails invite exploring. ![]() Complete the 12.4-mile loop by heading to Carter Notch to cool your heels in Carter Lake before hiking back to the car along the gentle Wildcat River Trail. The Freedom Trail at the center of historic Boston is a red brick path through the city leading visitors to many of the citys historic sites. Hight, where rocky peaks and ledgy outlooks offer spectacular panoramas of the Wild River Valley and the Carter and Presidential ranges. You’ll gain fine views there, but the best vistas lie a short 1-mile jaunt away at Mt. Start your trip on the Bog Brook Trail, where you’ll traverse color-splashed meadows (watch for deer and black bear) and cross several brooks before reaching the huff-and-puff Rainbow Trail that climbs the steep slope to Carter Dome’s summit. Unreasonable? Impossible? Then you haven’t hiked up and around Carter Dome in the Carter-Moriah Range. Oh yeah, and the trail should loop back to the car so there’s no backtracking. Water is nice - a pretty cascade, a murmuring brook will do. We don’t mind tough climbing if an unobstructed summit vista is waiting for us. Is it too much to ask for perfection? We Northeast backpackers want hikes that involve woods and mountains. The Freedom Trail is a 2.5-mile-long (4.0 km) path through Boston that passes by 17 locations significant to the history of the United States. Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Freedom Trail marker through a red brick sidewalk Freedom Trail next to Faneuil Hall.
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