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Bretton Woods, New Hampshire | |
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 Mount Washington Hotel at the foot of thePresidential Range in September 2010, looking east | |
  Bretton Woods  Bretton Woods | |
| Coordinates:44°15′29″N71°26′28″W / 44.25806°N 71.44111°W /44.25806; -71.44111 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New Hampshire |
| County | Coos |
| Town | Carroll |
| Elevation | 1,631 ft (497 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP code | 03575 |
| Area code | 603 |
| GNIS feature ID | 865781[1] |
Bretton Woods is an area within the town ofCarroll,New Hampshire, United States, whose principal points of interest are three leisure and recreation facilities. Being virtually surrounded by theWhite Mountain National Forest, the vista from Bretton Woods towardMount Washington and thePresidential Range includes no significant artificial structures other than theMount Washington Cog Railway and theMount Washington Hotel.
Bretton Woods was the site of theUnited Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in 1944 which has given its name to theBretton Woods system and led to the establishment of both theWorld Bank and theInternational Monetary Fund in 1945. The Bretton Woods system ended in 1971.
Bretton Woods is located alongU.S. Route 302, 5 miles (8 km) east of the village ofTwin Mountain and 20 miles (32 km) through scenicCrawford Notch northwest of the town ofBartlett.
In 1772, KingGeorge III granted Sir Thomas Wentworth ofBretton Hall, a country house inWest Bretton,West Yorkshire, and 82 others, a parcel of 24,640 acres (9,970 ha) of land to be laid out as a plantation in the White Mountains. The plantation became the town of Carroll, and the southeast corner of the land retained the name "Bretton Woods", after the estate.[2]
TheMount Washington Hotel and Resort is one in the last surviving handful ofNew Hampshire grand hotels, and includes twogolf courses, alpine and Nordic skiing, a 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m2) spa, sled rides, dog sled rides, tennis, horseback riding and much more in its facilities.
TheBretton Woods Mountain Resortski area serves bothdownhill andcross-country skiing, primarily in theRosebrook Mountains, located inBethlehem to the south. The downhill resort is the largest in New Hampshire,[citation needed] with 101 trails. In the early twentieth century heyday of northern U.S. resorts for the elite, rail passengers would travel from Boston on theBoston and Maine'sMountaineer. From New York City, passengers took theConnecticut Yankee,Day White Mountains,Night White Mountains, orOvernighter.[3]
The tracks of the Cog Railway and its associated buildings lie up the slope of Mount Washington, in nearbyThompson and Meserve's Purchase. The "Base Road" from Bretton Woods and Fabyan's is the preferred route to the lower end of the tracks (the Base Station of the Cog), except in those winters when the Mount Clinton Road is instead the onlyplowed road to their intersection. (The closing of the lower end of the Base Road had been traditional into 2004.) The Cog was operated during the winter seasons of 2004 to 2006 to take wilderness skiers partway up the mountain.
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