Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

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Bretton Woods, New Hampshire is an area within the town of Carroll whose principal points of interest are three leisure and recreation facilities. Being virtually surrounded by the White Mountain National Forest and the Pemigewasset Wilderness, its vista toward Mount Washington and most of the rest of the Presidential Range includes no significant artificial structures other than the Mount Washington Cog Railway and the Mount Washington Hotel.

Bretton Woods was the site of the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 which has given its name to the Bretton Woods system and led to the establishment of both the World Bank and the IMF in 1946.

US Route 302 runs 28 miles (45 km) between the business areas of one through-road intersection and that of the next, with only a town of fewer than 3000, and areas like Bretton Woods or smaller, as concentrations of development between those intersections.

Points of Interest

The Mount Washington Hotel and Resort is one of the last surviving handful of New Hampshire grand hotels, and includes a golf course in its facilities.

The Bretton Woods Mountain Resort ski area serves both downhill and cross-country skiing, primarily in the Rosebrook Mountains.

The tracks of the "Cog", and its associated buildings, lie up the slope of Mount Washington; the "Base Road" from Bretton Woods is the preferred route to the low-altitude end of those tracks (except when the road is closed by snow in the winter). The Cog is being operated during the winter of 2005 to take ski-mountaineers halfway up the mountain.

The Appalachian Mountain Club has built and operates the Highland Center Lodge and Conference Center and renovated the victorian-era Crawford Notch train depot as a bookstore and a stop on the scenic "Notch Train" railroad, operated seasonally from North Conway.

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