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WoobieBee t1_ir3xchg wrote

Geeze Louise you jerks & your leaf peeping. Can’t we get back to politics please? 😈😈😈

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Jack_Jacques t1_ir5onj5 wrote

I’m Maggie Hassan and I approve that view.

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TimC603 t1_ir2x6p2 wrote

Frankenstein Trestle!

We camped across the street from it this summer. Good stuff.

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moneyforsoy t1_ir3vsl3 wrote

I don’t think that is frankenstein trestle because it’s too close to mt willard, which has that cliff face in the background. frankenstein trestle is further south along 302, past the willey house site. i think it’s just an unnamed trestle between mt willard and mt willey that is only accessible via bushwhacking

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ItsJustJohnCena OP t1_ir31mvh wrote

Is it easy to access?

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druebleam t1_ir3dxqa wrote

It is easy to access. Technically you will be walking the train tracks which are private property. We hiked down from Arthesula falls and came down the Frankenstein trail and came across this trestle. But you can walk from the parking area along the tracks straight to the bridge.

And like the comment below. This is probably a drone shot.

Edit. Go to Wiley House. Walk right on the tracks (when approaching from the parking lot).

Edit2: this photo is not Frankenstein trestle. And the directions above will take you to Frankenstein Trestle

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HFVS t1_ir509qd wrote

Thats the pemigewatchyourstep trail

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Different_Ad7655 t1_ir3wc9r wrote

That is the well-known Frankenstein trestle. It is named by the way after the listed 19th century artist Godfrey Frankenstein who was trained in the Dusseldorf School tradition and who immigrated to the US in the early 19th century. At this time, the White mountains attracted many of the early romantic artists coalescing the romantic luminescent School of painting expanding uponthe Dusseldorf landscape style in which they had been trained... Crawford notch was a popular place to paint. The fantastic colors and the rugged natural scenery, and of course the relative accessibility from Boston or New York garnered much enthusiasm. This particular phase is called the White mountain School and had many famous participants from Thomas Cole to Albert Bierstadt. It is related to well known Hudson River School and was influential and establishing American landscape studio and plein aire painting. Many of the best known of the 19th century artist started here, before the opening of the Great West and accessibility

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drewp317 t1_ir49x6r wrote

It is actually the willey brook trestle. The Frankenstein trestle is a bit to the south of this one and is a bit different.

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Foops69 t1_ir5h9e4 wrote

This is Crawford Notch, but as others have mentioned, this is a drone pic. My advice is to take a nice drive through Bartlett, as this kind of runs parallel to the highway - OR take the Conway Scenic Train.. the long one that’s like 5 hours. Well worth it

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ItsJustJohnCena OP t1_ir5hduj wrote

Not a drone photo. Lots of YouTube videos show people sitting by the rocks and snapping photos

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[deleted] t1_ir2qxfk wrote

I am pretty sure there is no trail over there. Likely a drone

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SmashDreadnot t1_ir2vm5z wrote

I thought so too, but there's actually a pretty tall rock outcrop on the south side of the trestle. Lots of pictures are taken from there if you Google image search it.

Edit: And yes, there's definitely no trail over there.

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AlwaysPunting t1_ir380hy wrote

If I had to guess… you might get there by taking the flume trail from Wiley House and then walk the train track to that spot.

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SmashDreadnot t1_ir38e15 wrote

Or follow the tracks from the notch. Or bushwhacking straight up from 302. None of those options sound great, lol.

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ItsJustJohnCena OP t1_ir3k5gj wrote

It seems like a really far walk maybe around 2-3 hours just in the train tracks

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AlwaysPunting t1_ir3wxh6 wrote

I haven’t done it but Google Earth measures about a mile and a half-ish along the tracks from from where the Kendron Flume Trail crosses them to the south side of the trestle bridge.

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ItsJustJohnCena OP t1_ir398gw wrote

This is what I found on YouTube. And there seems to be a lot of photos online for this same spot, the person in the video doesn’t mention how he got up there though. same bridge

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SmashDreadnot t1_ir39z9b wrote

Ahh, yes, Chuck and Cheryl. That accent is brutal, lol. I would guess they followed the tracks from the notch. I've been meaning to climb up there for years and still haven't tried. Maybe some day.

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fjwjr t1_ir53xpm wrote

It’s the ‘fly-a-drone’ trail….

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donkeyduplex t1_ir2rba4 wrote

That's probably near the big AMC hut I'm Crawford notch. The arethusa falls/ Frankenstein cliffs trails cross this track and there are a few bridges like that nearby. Check it out on Google maps.

Edit: That's Willey Brook Trestle.

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ItsJustJohnCena OP t1_ir32rhq wrote

I also found the Wiley Brook Trestle I’m pretty certain that’s the spot I just can’t seem to find a trail of how to get to that spot :(

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Otherwise-Profitable t1_ir34wty wrote

You are correct, Wiley Brooke trestle. Up in the mountains in Crawford notch, unsure if there is an actual trail up to it tho.

Story of Wiley house is an interesting New England story if interested.

Over the next two months, the region experienced a severe drought that dried the soil to a much greater depth than usual. However, this drought came to a sudden end on the night of August 28, when a severe storm passed through here. The torrential rainfall destroyed nearly all of the bridges in the notch, and it also soaked deep into the dry earth, making the ground particularly susceptible to landslides along the steep cliffs. One such slide occurred here at the Notch House, but, as in the June slide, the building was narrowly spared. It stood right in the path of the landslide, but the falling debris struck a low ridge just above the house, causing it to split into two streams. As a result, the landslide passed on both sides of the house, destroying the stables but otherwise leaving the building miraculously intact before reuniting into a single stream just below the house.

Over the next few days, though, the nearby residents of the notch could find no sign of the seven members of the Willey family, or the two hired men who lived here. Inside the house, there was evidence that the occupants had left in a hurry, suggesting that they had tried to flee to safety in advance of the landslide. Subsequent searches of the area uncovered the badly-mangled bodies of Polly Willey and one of the hired men, David Allen, in the debris below the house. Samuel’s remains were soon discovered as well, along with those of their youngest child, three-year-old Sally. The body of David Nicholson, the other hired man, was found five days after the disaster, and a day later the body of twelve-year-old Eliza Willey was found far from the house, on the other side of the Saco River. However, the other three children—eleven-year-old Jeremiah, nine-year-old Martha, and seven-year-old Elbridge—were never found.

In the aftermath of the disaster, there were many theories as to exactly what happened here on the night of August 28. The most likely explanation, which Benjamin Willey provided in his book, is that Samuel stayed up during the night to monitor the storm and watch for signs of a landslide. As he heard the slide approaching, he awakened his family, and as they were leaving they heard the sound of the stables being destroyed. This caused them to flee in the opposite direction, and in the darkness and pouring rain they unknowingly ran directly into the path of the other side of the landslide.

https://lostnewengland.com/2020/03/willey-house-harts-location-new-hampshire/

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BodaciousGuy t1_ir392od wrote

That’s so sad. I couldn’t imagine the terror that family was feeling. Literally running for their lives. In the pitch black night.

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IamMikey1 t1_ir2nuqn wrote

By drone?

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SmashDreadnot t1_ir2vq1u wrote

I don't think so. There's a pretty tall rock outcrop on the south side of the trestle. Lots of pictures show up from the same spot if you Google image search it.

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ItsJustJohnCena OP t1_ir31lax wrote

I found YouTube videos of people hiking up there they just don’t mention where they started the hike.

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DocDiddles t1_ir67efc wrote

Head up to arethusa falls take a right on the train tracks and follow the tracks for ~10 mins

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