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Cannon Mountain Aerial Tramway, Franconia NH

October 9, 2014 New Hampshire 1 min read 8 photos

The Cannon Mountain Tram is a great way to see magnificent views of the White Mountains in New Hampshire. The 80-passenger cable car can get you to the 4,080' summit in under 10 minutes. On a clear day, you can see the mountains of four states and Canada. There's a walking path that you can take up to the observation deck. I'd recommend heading up in the fall.

View from inside the tramway car looking down over Echo Lake and the highway winding through the notch, tram cables in the foreground

The summit observation building at Cannon Mountain, its boardwalk leading up through evergreens with layered mountains behind

Fall foliage covering the slopes below the Franconia Ridge, orange and green patches against a darker forested ridgeline

Layered mountain ridges fading into blue haze, with low alpine shrubs on a rocky ledge in the foreground

The bare rocky summits of the Franconia Ridge above fall-colored slopes and a forested foreground ridge

Sunlight breaking through clouds over a valley of fall-colored hillsides and a distant river

A river winding through a fall-colored valley below, with a bare dead tree branch in the foreground

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