White Mountain National Forest · New Hampshire, Maine
Dry River Trail
8.4 mi of trail, end to end · native material surface · trail No. 32361 · trail class 1 · typical grade 12-20% · tread 18-24 inches wide · hiking
Backcountry camps
Along the way Dry River Shelter #3
Trailhead Dry River Trailhead Drive there
Dry River Trailhead the Forest Service's write-up
This 9.6 mile trail enters the Presidential Range-Dry River Wilderness at 0.7 miles. This trail has many challenging stream crossings, accesses the Mt. Clinton and Mt. Eisenhower Trails and ends at Lakes of the Clouds Hut (5,012 ft.) (fee and reservations required). Dry River Shelter #3 is a 3-sided lean-to at mile post 6.3 on Dry River Trail. The trailhead and first .7 miles of the Dry River Trail are within Crawford Notch State Park, and are therefore under the rules of and regulations of New Hampshire state parks.
This trailhead on fs.usda.gov
Every trail in White Mountain National Forest
About this trail's facts
The lines are the US Forest Service's National Forest System trails layer (public domain), read 2026-10-16 and simplified for the map; the length is the line's, end to end, and the class, surface, grade and tread width are the forest's own entries where it publishes them - a forest that publishes the centreline alone has none. The trailheads and the points along the way are the Service's recreation points, and the write-ups its own recarea text, unedited. Heights come from USGS 3DEP through Terrain Tiles on AWS (Mapzen/Tilezen), read along each line and rounded; a short trail on steep ground can be off by a few tens of feet. Closures change: check the forest's own site before you go.
