Kancamagus Highway
The Kancamagus Highway is a 34 1/2-mile, two-lane road that runs east-west through the White Mountains of New Hampshire in New England.
The highway, which opened in 1959 after two one-way stretches of road were connected, runs from the Pemigewasset River in Lincoln, New Hampshire to the Saco River at Conway, New Hampshire. A twisting, rural highway, it is occasionally shut for short times during winter due to snow, and in October is packed by traffic from "leaf-peepers" who come to view New England's famous autumn foliage
The highway is named after Kancamagus ("The Fearless One"), who ruled as the third and final Sagamon of the Panacook Confederacy (sometimes spelled Penacook) of Indian tribes in what is now southern New Hampshire. In 1691, due to fighting with English settlers, he made the decision to move north into upper New Hampshire and what is now Quebec.
