Cohos Trail Thru Hike Episode 6: Neil Tillotson Hut to Canadian Border

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Footage recorded September October 10th-11th, 2024 with a Sony ZV-1 and an iPhone 12 Pro.

In this final episode of my Cohos Trail Thru Hike, the Trail Tribe completes the 170 mile journey from Crawford Notch to the Canadian border. We leave Neil Tillotson Hut and pass by First and Second Connecticut Lakes before arriving at the grand Cornpopper cabin at Deer Mountain campground. On our final day, we leave the cabin and head 7-8 miles north past Third Connecticut Lake and the border crossing point of entry, before climbing up the ridge to the physical borderline itself, which we followed to Fourth Connecticut Lake, marking the end of the trail. We descend back down to celebrate at the border obelisk, and head into downtown Pittsburg to eat at Far Out Bar and Grill before heading home the next day.
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Join the Trail Tribe as we embark on an autumn New England thru hiking adventure for the ages, filled with beauty, challenges, and lessons learned along the way.

About the trail:

The Cohos Trail is 170 miles of wilderness hiking from southern Crawford Notch in the White Mountain National Forest through the Great North Woods to the Canadian border at far-flung Pittsburg, NH.

The Cohos Trail was first envisioned in 1978. The founder, Kim Robert Nilsen, was working as a reporter for a small weekly newspaper called the Coos County Democrat at Lancaster, NH when he wrote an editorial about the concept for a long-distance trail through one million acres of forest in New Hampshire’s largest and most isolated county.

The idea languished for twenty years, but while on vacation in Maine, Nilsen revived the concept and began planning a trail route from Crawford Notch at the southern end of the county to the Canadian border 100 crow-fly miles away to the north.

Hundreds of volunteers, from children to people in the eighties have worked on the Cohos Trail over the years, and they are still at it today. The rest, they say, is history.

Many landowners, state officials, federal employees, local business people, school students, scouts, local camp owners, town officers, and many more have lent a helping hand. Almost everyone contacted and involved over the years has been enthusiastic and encouraging. Without their contributions, the Cohos Trail would not exist.