Vistas of Manchester, NH
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 8:52AM Until I began training for the Manchester Half Marathon last year, I always thought Manchester, NH, was a fairly flat place. But then I started running up Webster Street. And Hanover Street. And Bridge Street. And River Road and north Union Street.
Come to find out, the city's elevation ranges from 110 feet above sea level to approximately 570 feet above sea level - an increase of more than 400 percent!
The lowest points, of course, are along the Merrimack River. But highest point, well, that's more of a mystery. Wikipedia notes that the highest point is in the city's "extreme northwest corner." It doesn't say so explicitly, but I have to assume this means Rock Rimmon, a massive formation that dominates this corner of the West Side around Northwest Elementary School:
The views from atop Rock Rimmon are even more impressive, and take in a majority of the city: