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Attractions near Canaan

From Canaan, 37 mi to Lake Winnipesaukee

Around Canaan, the places to visit include 14 ski areas, 9 museums and 2 national historical parks. There is no place to visit inside Canaan; there are 32 within 40 miles. Each year, some 78K people go to Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park. For a full day, there is Mount Washington, 55 mi away.

Attractions nearby
64
within 60 miles
The big one
55 mi
Mount Washington
National park units
2
parks & monuments
Ski areas
26
Killington Resort
Big draws
1
100K+ Wikipedia readers a year
Mountain · 55 mi northeast

Mount Washington

Highest mountain in the U.S. state of New Hampshire.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

Where to go

The list reaches out to Pico Mountain Resort, 40 mi away.

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Orange: Canaan. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Everything nearby

Every one of them

Here are the 64 places within 60 miles.

Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.

Parks and trails in Canaan → · Canaan’s history →

Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Mount Washington: wwoods, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lake Winnipesaukee: No machine-readable author provided. JohnJHenderson~commonswiki assumed (based o, Public domain · Mount Monadnock: Jonwmcinenrey, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Killington Resort: NHRHS2010, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Conway Scenic Railroad: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0 · White Mountain National Forest: Ken Gallager at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Cannon Mountain: Mikespenard at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sugarbush Resort: Mrtrek1701 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Story Land: AnotherMaker, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Okemo Mountain: Jrclark (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Stratton Mountain Resort: Rudi Riet from Washington, DC, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Franconia Notch State Park: Stephen Sokolowski, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Green Mountain National Forest: Brian W. Schaller, FAL · Flume Gorge: MyCatIsAChonk, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Willey House, New Hampshire: alans1948, CC BY 2.0 · Waterville Valley Resort: MConradWard, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Loon Mountain Resort: Own work, Public domain · SNHU Arena: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0 · Mad River Glen: Jrclark (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Bromley Mountain Ski Resort;Bromley Mountain: Jrclark (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Santa's Village: Alex McLeod, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Mount Sunapee: User:Josephbrophy, Public domain · Cranmore Mountain Resort: Davidafranklin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Pico Mountain Resort: petersent, Public domain · Wildcat Mountain: Ken Gallager at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Canterbury Shaker Village: SayCheeeeeese, Public domain · Currier Museum of Art: Struthious Bandersnatch, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Saskadena Six: Jared C. Benedict, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort at Number 4: John Phelan, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Hood Museum of Art: Daderot, CC0 · Ragged Mountain Resort: Tom Morgan, Public domain · American Precision Museum: Stilfehler, CC BY-SA 3.0 · McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center: Starhop, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wilson Castle: Daderot, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Magic Mountain Ski Area: Jared C. Benedict, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Landsc, Public domain · Vermont Marble Museum: GK tramrunner at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Enfield Shaker Museum: Neil.m.young, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium: AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0 · St. Johnsbury Athenaeum: Gopats92 Jonathan Leo Connor, CC BY 3.0 · Vermont Granite Museum: Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY 4.0 · Montshire Museum of Science: Jared and Corin, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Willowbrook Museum Village: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Cornish Colony Museum: insiriusdenial, CC0 · New Hampshire Farm Museum: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Rochester Museum of Fine Arts: AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sullivan Museum and History Center: SMHCNorwich, CC BY-SA 4.0 · The Main Street Museum: Main Street Museum, CC BY 3.0 · Winnipesaukee Playhouse: Alexa15224, CC BY-SA 3.0

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