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I just got back from a 5 day hiking trip to the Boundary Range - the ridge line that forms thr border between the US and Canada alnong New Hampshire and western Maine. The area is very remote and the only passage in most parts of the area is over dirt logging roads. I drove up Wednesday and crossed over to Woburn Quebec which is a few miles past the Coburn Gore Maine border crossing, where US Route 27 crosses into Canada. I hiked Wednesday afternoon, Thursday and Friday from the Canadian side and then Friday night crossed into Pittsburg New Hampshire where US Route 3 terminates. Saturday morning I was met by a friend and spent Saturday and Sunday morning hiking from the US side. All of the benchmarks were on or near the border. There were a series of boundary monuments (set in 1845) and a few triangulation stations set by the boundary commision when they did a triangulation of this section in 1915 - 1916. This station is a boundary monument is on the border near an old border station accessible from a park, "Zec Gosford", in Woburn Quebec. The monument is a couple of miles south of Mont Gosford. The crossing must originally have been for logging traffic and the old crossing road was quite overgrown. The monument is the standard for this area, a cast iron post set in a concrete foundation. It was in a boggy spot and you could sink up to your knees in mud if you weren't careful. Logged as "recovered in good condition" with the NGS on 8/29/2006.
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 QH0415 "MON 460 IBC" area, Maine/Quebec border
The old Customs station sign, long abandoned, where an old logging road crossed the border
QH0415 "MON 460 IBC", Maine/Quebec border
Distance view of the monument looking west along the boundary swath.
QH0415 "MON 460 IBC", Maine/Quebec border
QH0415 "MON 460 IBC", Maine/Quebec border
Closeup of the base showing the monument number.
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