New WMNF Trail Status Page

[MichaelJ]

The WMNF website has a new trail status page, indicating closed as well as damaged-but-open trails:

http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/forests/white_mountain/conditions/trails_status.php

Of particular note, they mention the Great Gulf Trail is closed for 600' through the headwall due to a landslide, but they do not mention the Sphinx Trail as was posted here.

 

[TDawg]

Sweet. Thanks for the link.

At the moment, the trails page contradicts the roads page in regard to the accessibility of the Sandwich Notch Road trails. (Guinea Pond, Mead, Algonquin, Crawford-Ridgepole)

 

[una_dogger]

Anything new on the status of the Dry River Bridge??

 

[TDawg]

Guinea Pond, Mead, Algonquin, and I assume Crawford-Ridgepole trails (I only drove out to Guinea Pond TH,) are all very much accessible as the forest roads page correctly states.

Sandwich Notch Road is probably in as good a shape as you'll ever see it right now. The long uphill near the start, on the Thornton side, got a fresh grade and is remarkably smooth compared to what it usually is. A couple of the other hills between Rt. 49 and the Guinea Pond TH also have been graded fairly recently.

Any car, with a little care, can drive this road as it sits at this moment.

 

[freighttrain48]

Guinea Pond, Mead, Algonquin, and I assume Crawford-Ridgepole trails (I only drove out to Guinea Pond TH,) are all very much accessible as the forest roads page correctly states.

Sandwich Notch Road is probably in as good a shape as you'll ever see it right now. The long uphill near the start, on the Thornton side, got a fresh grade and is remarkably smooth compared to what it usually is. A couple of the other hills between Rt. 49 and the Guinea Pond TH also have been graded fairly recently.

Any car, with a little care, can drive this road as it sits at this moment.

I took my camry down this road I couple months back and it was quite a challenge

 

[TDawg]

I took my camry down this road I couple months back and it was quite a challenge

Right, but that was a couple months ago. Parked at the Guinea Pond trailhead yesterday were two cars that would make your Camry look huge. There's still rough spots and pot holes, but anyone can make it.

 

[freighttrain48]

Right, but that was a couple months ago. Parked at the Guinea Pond trailhead yesterday were two cars that would make your Camry look huge. There's still rough spots and pot holes, but anyone can make it.

Did you take the rd all the way to sandwhich? I remember it being worse before the white house, After the house if you head from campton.

 

[bjc]

Sandwich Notch Road is probably in as good a shape as you'll ever see it right now. The long uphill near the start, on the Thornton side, got a fresh grade and is remarkably smooth compared to what it usually is. A couple of the other hills between Rt. 49 and the Guinea Pond TH also have been graded fairly recently.

Any car, with a little care, can drive this road as it sits at this moment.

Thanks TDawg, that's good to know. I was hoping to get out to Black Mountain Pond sometime this fall but had about given up on the idea after the storm.

 

[TDawg]

Thanks TDawg, that's good to know. I was hoping to get out to Black Mountain Pond sometime this fall but had about given up on the idea after the storm.

If you're familiar, the two short paved sections are currently the roughest coming from Campton/Thornton. Can't comment on coming in from Sandwich.

 

[bjc]

I'd be coming in from Campton. I only drove all the way through to Sandwich once several years ago. It was an interesting drive, but I haven't felt the urge to repeat it.

Sorry for the thread drift, the new trail status page is very helpful these days.

 

[kltilton]

It's going to be a while before the Rocky Branch Trailhead at Jericho Rd. is open. I was doing some surveying today for a culvert replacement between the last house/camp and the FS gate. That section has some bad washouts and looking past the gate didn't look much better.