Mt. Moosilauke Home Page - MtMoosilauke.com

Moosilauke is a mountain of many stories. Like the people who told them, most have been long forgotten. These tell of life in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, a part of rural New England enlivened by seasonal forays of summer visitors.

Parts of this vast, isolated peak reside in the towns of Benton, Warren, and North Woodstock, and each "side" has its stories and perspectives. Special areas on the mountain, such as Breezy Point and the Carriage Road, Baker River and Jobildunc Ravine, Glencliff and the great west slide, and others, all have their tales to tell.

Evolving from the Prospect House to the Tip Top House and later to Dartmouth's Summit Camp, the summit house was ultimately lost in a 1942 storm. Only a crumbling ruin now remains at the very top of old "Moose Hillock," but there is a memory etched on every stone.

The purpose of this site is to provide a glimpse of the wealth of unique literary, geographical and historical information we have collected about Mt. Moosilauke over the past 25+ years. While a web site can only provide short historical pieces, these will hopefully whet your interest to read further.

Moose Country Press Prints - Publishes a large selection of 19th century print reproductions with topics such as Moose, Railroads, The White Mountains, Mt. Washington, Fishing, Humor and more.

Moose Country Press Books- With the release (12/99) of Up Moosilauke by Jack Noon - the third in the series of Moosilauke books - Moose Country Press continues to tell the stories of this special mountain. This book of short stories based on historical & fictional characters/events on the mountain, spans a stretch from 1799 to 1999. The Moosilaukee Reader (Vol. 1 & 2) contains many out-of-print works and images from the last two centuries, along with key essays on the geology, forest and natural history. Also of interest is William Morse's 50-page illustrated "Mountain Years" (from A Mix of Years), which provides both a wide-ranging history of the mountain and Bill's own story of life at the top (and bottom) more than 80 years ago.

New Book - Fall 2001
Lumber Queen by Ellen C. Anderson
A biography of extraordinary woodswoman, Ruth Ayer Park. Ruth Park was a tough New Hampshire Yankee who graduated from Vassar College in 1906 and then became a logging boss.

Other books published range from humor (Sit Free or Die; The N.H. Primer) to historical fiction of the upper Connecticut River (The Big Fish of Barston Falls; Old Sam's Thunder) to true stories of life at the foot of Moosilauke and in the woods of the North Country (A Country Life; A Mix of Years).