Travel Tips

"Lost River is so-named because the brook draining the southern part of Kinsman Notch disappears below the surface in the narrow, steep-walled glacial Gorge. The Gorge is partially filled with immense blocks of granite, through the spaces of which the brook cascades along its subterranean course until it eventually emerges and joins the Pemigewasset River which flows southward from Franconia Notch. "

"The first documented exploration of Lost River took place in 1852, in a manner rather similar to Alice's tumble down the rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland. According to local historian Elmer E. Woodbury, the Jackman brothers, Royal and Lyman, were busily fishing along a stream in the area, intently working their way over and around boulders. Suddenly Lyman disappeared from sight, as if the earth had swallowed him. He had slipped without warning through a moss-covered hole, and dropped into a cave about 15 feet below, up to his waist in a pool of water (known today as Shadow Cave)."

http://www.findlostriver.com/history.htm

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