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The Weetamoo Trail is a connector from the Piper Trail to the Hammond Trail and makes a nice loop over the summit of Mount Chocorua with the Piper Trail or Nickerson Ledge Trail. Weetamoo Rock is a large boulder near the top of the trail, obscured by tall trees except when you are right next to it.
Distance: Piper Trail to Hammond Trail, about 2.0 miles one-way
Parking area to summit of Mount Chocorua, about 4.6 miles one-way
Elevation gain: Piper Trail to Hammond Trail, about about 1150 feet, nominal on return
Parking area to summit of Mount Chocorua, about 2800 feet, about 100 feet on return
Maps:
USGS Silver Lake
AMC Crawford Notch-Sandwich Range
Location: White Mountains Region
NH 2003-2004 map I-8
DeLorme NHA&G 40-B8/7 - Albany/Bartlett
The trail is located SW of Conway, off NH Route 16
South End: Piper Trail about .7 miles N of NH Route 16, elevation about 950 feet
North End: Hammond Trail about .8 miles below Liberty Trail, elevation about 2100 feet
Owner: White Mountain National Forest
Maintainer: White Mountain National Forest
Special regulations: Unknown
The Weetamoo Trail leaves the Piper Trail L about .7 miles from the parking lot, and angles down to the Chocorua River, runs alongside, then crosses. It runs up along the river a little longer, crosses a minor ridge to run parallel to a small brook, crosses the brook on a plank bridge, and then goes downstream on the far side. The trail next ascends moderately to a ridge which it follows uphill, and at 1.0 miles zags R on a more gradual switchback. It then zigs L on another gradual switchback, passing Weetamoo Rock which is a large boulder in trees on the downhill side, and ends at the Hammond Trail at about 2.0 miles. The summit of Mount Chocorua is about 1.9 miles to the R via the Hammond, Liberty, and Brook Trails.
Parking area plowed but access road may not be well sanded
Map Notes: The USGS map shows Weetamoo Rock in the wrong location, and more seriously labels the upper Liberty and Hammond Trails as "Weetamoo Trail"
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