High Plains Drifter
New Hampshire
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1.6 mi
Distance
758 ft
Gain
No verdict for this trail
We won't guess. Here is exactly what we do and don't know.
What we do know
Inside White Mountain National Forest
2 managing-area boundaries mapped — agency alerts for them feed this page automatically.
Boundary data
What's missing
No access route mapped
We don't yet know which road reaches this trailhead, so we can't tell you if it's gated.
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Trail character
- Surface
- Singletrack
Here's your ride, mapped
High Plains Drifter
Suggested plan · check conditions before you go
Elevation & route
- Distance
- 1.6 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,287 ft
- Elevation loss
- 1,287 ft
- Highest point
- 2,409 ft
- Lowest point
- 1,641 ft
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Directions & GPX
About this trail
High Plains Drifter is a 1.55-mile out-and-back singletrack in Vermont managed by the Forest Service. The route gains 1,200 feet of elevation and is rated as an intermediate / blue square difficulty by IMBA.
Permits & access
- Managing agency
- Forest Service
Facts about this trail
The climb
- Starts at
- 1,709 ft
- High point
- 2,409 ft
- Total climbing
- 1,287 ft
- Total descent
- 1,287 ft
- Steepest stretch
- 21% grade around mile 1.1 on the way out
- Length (round trip)
- 3.1 mi
- Shape
- Out and back
Source: Roamze elevation profile and trail geometry (DEM samples along the mapped route)
Where it is
- Pemigewasset Ranger District · Ranger district
- White Mountain National Forest · National forest
- Managed by
- Forest Service
Conditions
Active alerts for Pemigewasset Ranger District as of Oct 9, 2026:
Rattlesnake Fire – Pemigewasset Ranger District
fire-restriction · posted Aug 27, 2026
Source: USFS forest alerts
Nearby
- Fat LipHiking0.3 mi
- Kettle TrailHiking0.6 mi
- Coppermine ShelterCamping0.9 mi
- Artist's BluffRock climbing2.2 mi
- Kinsman PondCamping2.3 mi
- Franconia Notch BoulderingRock climbing2.3 mi
- Pemigewasset RiverCanoeing6 mi
- Ammonoosuc RiverRiver fishing9.3 mi
Source: Roamze catalog (indexable pages within 10 miles, PostGIS distance)
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