Haystack Mountain State Park

About Haystack Mountain State Park

Drive along winding mountain roads, hike the rugged trails to the summit, and along the way you'll be surprised by some of the most beautiful views of Haystack Mountain State Park in New Hampshire.

This road leads from the parking lot halfway up Haystack Mountain, and then you can get off the road and take the same path that leads to the entrance to the park that leads back to it. There is also a yellow path that starts at the beginning of this road but goes straight up to a steep, rocky slope overlooking Hay Stack Mountain. The geological description assumes that you take this path to the top, then go all the way down and take the yellow paths back to the entrances of the park.

The road is slightly uphill, mostly through the forest with a beautiful view of the pond. After you have passed the ponds, look for the rockfall on the left and then up the hill to the top of Hay Stack Mountain.

The promontory is probably made up of glacial rocks and the rocks are fine, although some appear bright in the distance. On most of the exposed surface, which is covered with lichen, there is grainy black-and-white banded gneiss.

Even if the whole of Connecticut is covered in ice, the ice always melts and the water works its way through the ice caves and into crevices.

As the ice moves, it can pull loose blocks and leave them hanging on the slope until they melt later.

There, the water from snow and ice melts and freezes, widening the cracks.

It is a pegmatite, a combustible stone that appears at the end of the road or at the beginning of a path. The stone is very coarse, grainy and of light colour, but once it has melted, it cools down so that larger grains can grow.

As you walk along the path, you will soon come to a smooth strip that crosses the paths, and then to a rocky ledge. Do not try to climb the edge, as the rock is very unstable and can cause serious damage to the feet when renting.

As the ice moves, the fine rock material rubs against the ground, giving it a smooth surface, from which it is now apparent that the glacier is probably polished into the rock.

Further up the mountain, you pass a promontory of black and white gneiss that plunges steeply down the slope. Continue along the path, looking for well-banded black and white gneiss, and on the upper path steps you will notice a steep ledge on the right. This rock has an obvious banding, as if it were begging with gneiss from the same kind that you have passed.

Although hard to see due to lichens, this thinly banded black-and-white rock is amphibolite gneiss.

Although the horn bezel appears black, it is actually very dark green, and the black mineral grains are begged with amphibols.

Note how obvious the black and white banding is when it is covered with just a few lichens. We have now reached the top of Haystack Mountain, and the clearing in the tower is made of local gneiss.

It's not really as high as it looks, but it rises in all directions to an incredible view, with incredible views in all directions.

On a clear day, the states of Massachusetts and New York can be seen up above, and when one enjoys the view, one goes down the path again. You can do this by parking on the yellow path that will take you back to the park entrance. When you reach it, follow it up the hill, past the parking lot and onto the green path.

Look for the boulder on the right, which is made of a very mica-rich rock that flakes off slightly. This boulder has a red and orange quartz layer and looks like it was formed from an easily removable, but very rich, very rare and rare rock.

In August 2004, a new yellow flame was on its way up, and this map shows the way to the flame.

There is a forest path, but this path leads to a very steep, narrow, rocky path with a steep slope - up.

The first one on the left, which climbs the path, is made of dark grey fine-grained gneiss, and most of the rocks are covered with lichen. A short sideways path from the main path leads to a smooth surface, like gneiss. The rocks on this path are of the same type, but in some places bands are visible and lichens cover most of the rocks.

Visitors can see a variety of different gneiss species as well as a number of rocks of different shapes and sizes.

If you are not an experienced hiker, you should plan an hour's hike, but the road allows access about halfway up the mountain. The road is about 1.5 km long and about 2 km wide, and a steep path of about 500 m leads to the end.

The road is open for vehicles on weekends in October, but the park is only open on weekdays from 9 am to 5 pm and on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 am to 4 pm. Take Route 7 south of Canaan, turn left eastbound on Route 44, then left on Route 272 northbound, then right on the road and left on the east side of the highway to Haystack Mountain.

The park will be on the left and right side of the road, south of Route 272 to the north and east of Haystack Mountain State Park. The park is located to the left and east, about one and a half miles from the park entrance, at the intersection of State Street.

Take I-84 westbound and take Exit 39 and continue on this route until you turn right at the intersection of State Street and Haystack Mountain Road onto Route 272. Turn left at the Route 273 exit and then right onto State Road to the park entrance, then take I / 84 westbound to Exit 38.

The park is on the left and then on the right at the intersection of State Street and Haystack Mountain Road and Route 272.