Oh, yeah. My wife and I were driving by on a nice fall day. I said "Do you want to drive up?". She said "Sure".
When we got to the top, visibility was 50 feet, the wind was 50 mph, and the temperature was 40. We were impressed that the buildings on top were tied down with steel cables over the roofs.
-- Doug
As a Vermonter, I would like to be able to claim Mount Washington for Vermont, but it's still in New Hampshire. Not that it's any less worth visiting for that reason; or at least not too much less worth visiting.
In my part of Vermont, the Lincoln gap, Applacian gap, and Smuggler's notch are all worth driving over (and all within reach of each other). There's plenty of hiking opportunities in both states, too; Camel's Hump is quite popular locally, and with good reason: it's not too difficult of a day hike, and the view from the top on a clear day is absolutely amazing. You can make out Mount Washington from there if it's very clear, in fact.
Must be a long cog rail line. Mount Washington is on the other side of New Hampshire from Vermont. ;-)
I seem to misspeak (or write) all the tome these days. :-) Sigh .. . . . . . .
A few possibilities in Vermont:
The American Precision Museum in Windsor, VT is a fascinating place. It's mostly machine tool related stuff (broadly speaking), but I think that falls within the tool category. It's been many years since I last visited; I should get back there again.
You're among friends here. Most of us do farts and brown-outs at inappropriate times. Sigh... creak, jo4hn
That was a nice day, then. More typical in the fall is 25ft,
100 mph, 30F and blowing snow. OTOH, I was up there once the week after labor day, and it was 68F, 100 miles, 10-15 mph, so you never know what you'll get.
I look forward to trying to get to the top. It'll be Oct 10th when we get there. If it's too bad I'm not going to drive it just to say I did. Do want to take the cog railroad. What kind of weather can we expect on the cog around Oct 10th?
Between 75 and 25 and that can be within a couple of hours.
They won't let you try if the weather is too bad.
Also, you should be aware of the vehicle limits
Interesting list. The old Ford station wagon is allowed, but not a Hummer.
The Hummer, I suspect, is a width issue. I rode it on a motorcycle and there were places where I was worried about clearing oncoming traffic. It's a very narrow, twisty road with rock walls on one side and sheer drops of several hundred feet on the other and no guard rails. Trying to back up to a wider space is very likely to end up in someone going over a cliff.
In that case, the typical Hummer driver would not want to take his vehicle up the road. It could get dirty and scratched. On my last trip to Italy, the villa we rented was un a narrow road on a hill, one lane in many places. The drops were only 20 or 30 feet and it took a few trips before I was comfortable driving on the outside.
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