New England Land Marks with Real Location

In this guide, I will show every Land mark, with it's real life location and name counter part.

I decided to do this as kind of a fun project after recognizing the Madison Boulder (Favreau Boulder). The locations of the actual landmarks will be represented by icons on the reserve map below. Thank you for looking and enjoy the journey.

Locations without Speculation.

Madison Boulder (Favreau Boulder)
Madison, New Hampshire


Located in Madison New Hampshire, this giant granite chunk is a must see if you find yourself in the Mount Washington Valley. Just 15 minutes from North Conway New Hampshire.

Mount Washington Observatory (Mount Alcott Obervatory)
Sargent's Purchase, New Hampshire


Located in Sargent's Purchase and standing tall at 6,288 feet is Mount Washington. On top of Mount Washington is a weather observatory. Some of the worlds highest wind gusts have been recorded on top of Mount Washington.

Conway Scenic Railroad Freight Yard (Smith Scenic Railroad)
North Conway, New Hampshire


In North Conway New Hampshire, the Conway Scenic Railroad main station and freight yard is located. The Scenic Railroad runs from Conway New Hampshire, up thru Franconia Notch and the base of Mount Washington. Along the way it travels over high bridges, cliff sides, mountain rivers. It's a pretty cool ride.

The Saco River Covered Bridge (Poe Covered Bridge)
North Conway, New Hampshire


One of the first covered bridges I ever traveled thru in my life was this one. It used to connect Conway to North Conway before a modern bridge was put in a few hundred feet down. It's still standing, and a sight to see. Many river goers will float underneath this bridge, and many other covered bridges on their drunken trip.

Mount Liberty Flume Gorge (Conway Pond Trail)
Lincoln, New Hampshire


Unfortunately this model doesn't do this area justice. The Flume Gorge is a platform maze of wooden walking platforms around giant granite ledge walls, near waterfalls, thru glacial carvings in granite. It's beautiful and a must see if a person finds themselves in the Mount Washington Valley.

Frog Rock (The Old Toad)
New Boston, New Hampshire


Around Maine and New Hampshire there are chunks of granite boulders, similar to the Madison boulder Frog Rock traveled on down with a glacier and decided to rest where it stands in New Boston.

Paddock Mine (Mafrousse Mines)
Lyman, New Hampshire


Across the state there are numerous mines and quarries, this perticular one in Northern New Hampshire was the site of a major copper extraction operation.

Ruggles Mine (Tocqueville Cave)
Grafton, New Hampshire


Ruggles mine was a used as a gemstone quarry, amethyst, mica, feldspar, and beryl were popular stones to extract from this site.

Madame Sherri's Castle Ruins (Bramare Mansion)
West Chesterfield, New Hampshire


In 1959, Sherri's “castle” was vandalized, destroying furnishings. Heartbroken, Madame Sherri vowed not to return. Three years later, the house burned down completely, leaving only the stonework behind.

Locations with Speculation

Sherman's Farm Corn Maze (Padavona Corn Maze)
East Conway, New Hampshire

There is a lot of speculation with this one, where as there are numerous corn mazes around Maine and New Hampshire. Sherman's Farm stuck out to me when I saw corn maze, well because it's 5 minutes down the road, and they do neat patterns every year. Like this one, a sad reminder of a QB, that had it all, and lost it for a below .500 season.

Sherman's Farm (Gilman's Pumpkin Fields)
East Conway, New Hampshire

Again, I am far stretching with this one as well, as there are hand fulls of Farms and Farm Stands in the Mount Washington Valley. First one I thought of, so here it is until someone has a different idea on the developers inspiration for Gilman's Pumpkin Fields.

Locations with no Land Marks

Tuckerman's Ravine
Mount Washington, New Hampshire


Carved into the South Eastern side of Mount Washington is Tuckerman's Ravine, a popular place in the winter for skiiers to hike up and ski down. In the summer, a popular hiking destination.
Altho there are no Landmarks near by, in game this is located directly behind Mount Alcott Observatory, so geographically it fits with Mount Washington Observatory and where Tuckerman's would be. And also I couldn't help but notice this looks strikingly similar to Tucks seen from Hermit Lake.

Cathedral Ledge
North Conway, New Hampshire


I stumbled upon this as a Lookout Point, noticed the chain linked fence and a cliff face, first thing I thought of was Cathedral Ledge, I could be mistaken and this was just pure coincidence.

Will add more if I come across any.

Map

Below is a map of New England Reserve, over the approximate location of the Land Mark I placed an Icon of New Hampshire with a red dot on where that Land Mark in game is located in New Hampshire.

Closing Statement

Thank you for finding this guide, hopefully it was a fun little journey.
For me, living in the heart of this expansion (15 minutes from The Conway Scenic Railroad), I found it fun to jump around the reserve and look at the different locations the developers thought would be a good addition to the game. Some were modeled exactly as how they appear, which is great to see the attention to detail. I'm looking forward to exploring more and hopeing other spots will pop out to me. I encourage feed-back, if anyone notices anything, or something that could be changed with my findings, please leave a comment below.
Have a great day!

[Terex140]

coos county!! i live in essex county vt!

[SpiritSoulFire]

This makes me happy, I know I'm a bit late to the party but I just picked up this DLC, and I'm a native of Coos County in New Hampshire. Mt Washington is just a half hour drive south for me so seeing some of these landmarks is a blast. Thank you my friend.

[Hope]

This is so awesome! Tahnk you! I really would like to know the african landmarks now ^^

[Tibbs]

Hello Hiijinx, thank you for the write-up. That was fun seeing the joy this area brought another person. I do take this area for granted at times where it is the epicentre for all the things to do. Funny you mention Merrill Farm, a few years ago now I spent a month or so there re-wiring a whole wing for their re-model. As for someone's grandma accidentally finding the flume gorge, i'm not sure. Very well could be never the less. Mt Washington auto-road is always a fun spot, I try to hit that once a year, especially when the 'Climb to the Clouds' auto race is going on. A few years back Travis Pastrana set a new record of 5 minutes and 20 something seconds up. Quite impressive. If you do find yourself up this way again, you will notice it has grown up quite a bit, but still should have it's normal charm. Thank you again, and take care.

[Hiijinx]

I knew it felt familiar - I visited North Conway years ago for the skiing and again the following year to see the autumn colours! We stayed at the Merrill Farm Resort, right on the banks of the Saco river, it was glorious. We also visited The Flume Gorge and remember them telling about how someones Grandma accidentally found it one day whilst wandering the woods? Whether this is true or not I don't know. We drove up Mt Washington into the clouds and visited the random Post Office located way up top. Man .. that vacation is still the best in my life, moose watching, canoeing, snow tubing, skiing, Attitash Bear Peak, Jonathans Seafood Restaurant, Kancamagus Highway ... you live in paradise my friend. Thank you for this!

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Very nice, thank you

[°The Chap°]

Very Cool! Thanks for making the effort. As a native New Englander I was thrilled to see this new reserve and the thought that went into it.