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Omni Mount Washington
You don’t book this hotel for the room. You book it for what the room looks at.
Mount Washington, the tallest peak in the Northeast: from your bed, from a 900-foot veranda, and from a heated pool steaming in the snow. Two and a half hours from Boston.
The view
Staring at it since 1902
Across the valley stands Mount Washington, 6,288 feet, the highest peak in the Northeast. The hotel has faced it since 1902.
The veranda runs 903 feet around the building. Take a chair. Whichever one you pick looks at a mountain.
The room
So can your bed
In the Presidential Wing, the rooms open onto the range through French doors. Ask for the mountain side; it is the whole point.
Every chair on the veranda faces a mountain.
Dinner
A table that faces it too
The main dining room is lined with windows. Before dinner, the great hall has a stone fireplace and armchairs to wait in.
Downstairs
The Cave
On the patio level, under the hotel, a Prohibition-era speakeasy still pours, every night from eight to midnight. No view down there. That is the point.
Morning
Stop looking. Go up.
The gondola climbs Bretton Woods, New Hampshire’s largest ski area: 464 acres, facing the mountain. Off the slopes, a canopy tour strings nine zip lines through the trees.
After the first snow
The pool stays open
The outdoor pool is heated. Sit in it with snow on the rails, the whole hotel lit up behind you and the Presidential Range in front.
The key
- Ask for a room on the mountain side.
- Come in early October, when the valley turns red, or after the first snow.
- Book dinner by the windows; end the night at The Cave, 8 p.m. to midnight.
- Drive up from Boston: about two and a half hours.
Where it is
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- Where
- Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
- From Boston
- About 2½ hours by car
- Opened
- 1902
- The view
- Mount Washington · 6,288 ft
- Veranda
- 903 ft
- The Cave
- Daily, 8 p.m.–midnight (subject to change)
- Ski area
- 464 acres · gondola
- Canopy tour
- 9 zip lines
- Go
- Early October, or after the first snow
Our verdict
A long weekend where everything faces a mountain. Book it for the view, then use it: the veranda, the gondola, the pool in the snow.
Not for you if you want a city after dark. The night ends at The Cave, at midnight.
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