Mount Eisenhower

{{for|the mountain in the Canadian Rockies named Mount Eisenhower between 1946 and 1979|Castle Mountain}}

{{Short description|Mountain in the American state of New Hampshire}}

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{{Infobox mountain

| name = Mount Eisenhower

| photo = Mount Eisenhower.JPG {{!}} Mt. Eisenhower, June 2006

| photo_caption = Mount Eisenhower, June 2006

| elevation_ft = 4757

| elevation_ref = {{cite gnis |id=871851 |name=Mount Eisenhower |access-date=2024-05-22}}

| prominence_ft = 353

| prominence_ref = {{cite peakbagger |pid=6965 |name=Mount Eisenhower, New Hampshire |access-date=2024-05-22}}

| listing = New England 4000-footer #12

| location ={{unbulleted_list

| Chandler's Purchase

| Coös County, New Hampshire, U.S. }}

| range = Presidential Range

| coordinates = {{coord|44|14|26.64|N|71|21|0.65|W|type:mountain_region:US |display=inline,title}}

| coordinates_ref =

| topo = USGS Stairs Mountain

| type =

| age =

| first_ascent = Possibly Darby Field in June 1642, though no one has proven this yet.{{cite book |author1=Smith, Steven D. |author2=Dickerman, Mike |title=The 4000-Footers of the White Mountains |edition=2nd |location=Littleton, New Hampshire |publisher=Bondcliff Books |year=2001}}

| easiest_route = Edmands Path, Mt. Eisenhower Loop

}}

Mount Eisenhower, formerly Mount Pleasant, is a mountain in the Presidential Range in the White Mountains of New Hampshire approximately {{convert|4,757|ft}} high. Named after President Dwight D. Eisenhower, its summit offers a 360° view. It is inaccessible by road.

The Crawford Path, carrying the Appalachian Trail, crosses the mountain near its summit.Daniell, Gene, and Smith, Steven D. White Mountain Guide. 28th ed. AMC Books, 2007. {{ISBN|978-1-929173-34-1}}. 41 It separates from the summit loop trail at {{convert|4400|ft|m}}, {{convert|0.3|mi|km|abbr=on|1}} south of the summit, and rejoins it {{convert|0.3|mi|km|abbr=on|1}} northeast of the summit, having made a net elevation gain of about {{convert|40|ft}} and reached a maximum on Eisenhower of about {{convert|4520|ft}}.

The mountain was known as Mount Pleasant until the New Hampshire Legislature voted in 1969 to name it after President Eisenhower, and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names agreed in 1970.{{cite web |title=A New Hampshire Peak Named for Eisenhower (Published 1970) |website=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/22/archives/a-new-hampshire-peak-named-for-eisenhower.html}}

The shortest trail route to the summit of Eisenhower is from a parking lot on Mount Clinton Road, to its west-northwest, via primarily the Edmands Path. Several routes are available from points more or less southwest of it on Route 302; the most used of these (probably roughly equal in popularity to the Edmands route) is via the Crawford Path, starting from a parking lot on Mount Clinton Road, very near 302 and just north of the Highland Center in the Crawford Notch area. Mount Monroe lies on the ridge northeast of Mt. Eisenhower, and Mount Pierce to the southwest. All three of these peaks are included on the peak-bagging list of four-thousand footers in New Hampshire. Mount Franklin, an "unofficial" peak (not prominent enough to be included in the list), lies between Mount Eisenhower and Mount Monroe.