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Conway =Pudding Pond and Trail Area= North Conway, New Hampshire 03860 Green Hills Preserve webpage Green Hills Preserve brochure and map

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Pudding Pond and trail area
Coordinates: 44.0449, -71.1133111 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Pudding Pond and Trail Area
Pudding Pond and the trails in this area are managed by the Green Hills Preserve.

About Green Hills Preserve
Just east of the hustle and bustle of North Conway Village lies a ridge of small mountains with bald peaks and outstanding views of Mount Washington and the Presidential Range. More than 4,200 acres of this ridgeline and three mountain peaks are protected in the Conservancy’s Green Hills Preserve. Here, visitors are rewarded with excellent hiking and opportunities to view unusual red pine rocky ridge habitat and rare plants like White Mountain silverling, smooth sandwort, and green adder’s mouth. In addition to its exposed ridge habitats, the preserve also features wetlands, mixed hardwood forests, and hemlock groves which support a diversity of White Mountain wildlife like black bear, bobcat, and wood warblers.

The Green Hills ridge is derived from Conway Granite, a volcanic bedrock formed approximately 200 million years ago. This bedrock is exposed in several places along the ridge, most notably on Middle Mountain, Peaked Mountain, and Black Cap, where visitors are exposed to excellent views as well as lessons in geology and ecology. Peaked Mountain contains great examples of glacial polish, whereby the granite has a smooth, marble-like appearance created when fine grit on the underside of a glacier scours underlying rocks during movement.

In the early 20th century, wildfires on the Green Hills burned many of the summit areas and were in large part responsible for the preserve’s uncommon red pine rocky ridge community. Look carefully at the red pines on Peaked and Middle mountains, and notice that most are about the same size – this is because they all originated around the same time when a fire had cleared out the competing vegetation and created optimal conditions for red pine establishment. On summer evenings, the bald peaks also provide a great place to watch for common nighthawks and listen for the ethereal songs of whip-poor-wills, which are thought to nest near the summits. From Green Hills Preserve webpage

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