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Cardboard races are an annual event at Grafton's Loon Mountain Ski Resort. PHOTO: AP/WORLDWIDE
Though geographically large (it's twice
the size, for instance, of Callaway
County, Mo.), Grafton County is
dominated by the White Mountain
National Forest. So development isn't
an issue. Lebanon, in the southwest
corner of the county, ranked No. 3 in
Norman Crampton's "The 100 Best
Small Towns in America." The National
Trust for Historic Preservation named
another town, Littleton, as one of its
five Great American Main Street
communities in 2003. The schools are
topnotch; Grafton County is home to
the Ivy League's Dartmouth College.
Skiing is quite the tourist draw for
Northeastern metro areas. In spite of
this, the largest city still has fewer
than 15,000 residents. The Old Man of
the Mountain, a facelike rock
formation on Cannon Mountain, was
featured on New Hampshire's state
quarter in 2000. The famous stone face
collapsed in 2003.
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