The White Mountain School’s location provides access to one of the premier 4-season outdoor recreation areas in the country.  The school is in close proximity to the White Mountain National Forest and Franconia Notch State Park, providing a wealth of amazing opportunities for recreation, sport, and challenge.

The school’s rural campus consists of a hillside vista looking towards Mt. Washington and the Presidential Range.  Miles of trails for hiking, mountain biking and cross-country skiing link campus with adjacent land owned by the Society for the Protection of NH Forests.  The school recently completed work on a fully functional campsite adjacent to our small pond with tent platforms, group areas, a firepit, and (soon to come) composting toilets.

Other on-campus facilities include two soccer and lacrosse fields, both with inspiring mountain views.  Our state of the art fitness center includes free weights, Nautilus equipment, treadmills and other cardio equipment.  The fitness center also contains a small multi-purpose court that is used for basketball, volleyball, indoor soccer and dodgeball, among other things.

Our fitness center is also home to our renowned indoor climbing facility.  This amazing resource covers over 3,000 square feet including 500 square feet of steep terrain for bouldering. Peaking at 38 feet, it features ropes set with mechanical belay devices, bolts for lead climbing, intricate corner systems and real crack systems. The wall’s surface, an epoxy-based cement, uses granite, marble dust, and sand to give it the look and texture of real granite rock. This facility is a central point for many Outdoor Education Program activities and regularly hosts regional sport climbing competitions.

Located within the gym is our "Equipment cage".  It is here that we can outfit groups with all necessary equipment for any outdoor excursion imaginable.  The cage is home to sleeping bags, backpacks, backcountry skis, snowshoes, Nordic ski equipment, cooking stoves, etc. . .  This is also where the climbing program stocks its program equipment.  Items like ropes, helmets, ice tools and mountaineering boots can be found here for instructors to utilize for sports, Field Courses or weekend activities.  Adjacent to our fitness center is our boat shed which houses a rolling stock of the newest Jackson whitewater kayaks, paddles, helmets, PFDs and other essential for navigating the rivers and lakes of the region.   The school also maintains a fleet 11 Mad River canoes.

The student-run farm at the White Mountain School includes a one-half-acre organic vegetable garden, young apple orchard, maple sugaring house, garden shed, chicken coop, greenhouse (48’ x 14’), set of compost bins, and some 250+ acres of woodland.  Faculty and staff share space in a second garden to raise their own crops.  Many of the farm activities take place on adjacent land kindly lent by trustee and friend-of-the-school Henry Vaillant.

For skiers and snowboarders, The White Mountain School is centrally located to many of NH’s best resorts.  We are within 30 minutes of NH’s largest resort (Bretton Woods), the ski area with the greatest vertical drop in NH (Cannon) and the mountain with what is typically regarded as the best terrain park in the East (Loon). These three areas provide WMS skiers and riders with direct access to 230 trails and almost 6,000 vertical feet of skiing and riding from the easy to the extreme.  Our local area also provides abundant snow yearly and great opportunities for backcountry skiing and riding all the way through “Tucks” season in the late spring.  For Nordic skiers, local trail systems abound with Bretton Woods’ well-manicured 100km of skate and classical ski trails serving as the home base for many of our cross-country skiing adventures.