Ninety-six rooms in the 1879 Eagle Mountain House on Carter Notch Road, with the two-hundred-and-eighty-foot wraparound veranda that overlooks the Wildcat Valley, the nine-hole Eagle Mountain Golf Course (a 1931 conversion of the original hotel pasture), and the Eagle Landing Tavern dining room.
"The two-hundred-and-eighty-foot veranda is the longest in New England and the porch rockers face the Carter Notch trail straight up the valley, a 1879 White Mountains grand inn that has not lost its nerve."
Eagle Mountain House opened on July 4, 1879 as the Carter Notch Inn, a thirty-room summer-hotel commission for the Gale family of Jackson on the hillside above what is now Carter Notch Road. The original wood-frame Queen Anne building burned twice (1880 and 1915) and was rebuilt each time on the same plot to a similar exterior pattern; the current structure is the 1916 reconstruction, with the two-hundred-and-eighty-foot wraparound veranda intact, the rocker line still on it, the Carter Notch valley view unchanged.
The hotel has operated continuously every summer since 1879 and (since the 1950s) most winters; the property is a member of Historic Hotels of America (the National Trust's hotel programme), one of only four New Hampshire properties on the register, alongside the Mount Washington (1902), the Wentworth-by-the-Sea (1874), and the Omni Bretton Arms (1896). The Gale family sold to the present ownership in 2001; the property is independently operated.
The hotel's defining outdoor amenity is the nine-hole Eagle Mountain Golf Course, a 1931 conversion of the original hotel's grazing pasture into a 2,200-yard par-32 mountain course. The course occupies the valley floor below the hotel; the back-nine fourth fairway runs along the Wildcat River. The seasonal outdoor pool (heated, May through October) sits at the back of the main hotel block; the tennis programme runs three clay courts in summer. The Eagle Landing Tavern in the basement of the hotel and the Highfields dining room on the ground floor run the full New England menu, the prime rib night on Saturday is the local-favourite booking.
Ninety-six rooms run across three categories: the Standard Inn Room (in the original 1916 hotel block, with the original mahogany trim and individual layouts, no two are alike), the Premium Inn Room (upper floors of the original block with the Carter Notch view aspect), and the Junior Suite (separate sitting room, gas fireplace, upgraded bath). The hotel is dog-friendly (the only Historic Hotels of America property in New Hampshire that is), with a $50 nightly pet fee and the dog-walking trail network of the Jackson Ski Touring network at the door. Wi-Fi runs property-wide, the cell coverage at Carter Notch Road is reliable, and the rate position is the value pick of the Jackson Village four-star inventory.
Eagle Mountain House is the multi-generation Jackson booking. The Premium Inn Room category (two queens, the Carter Notch view aspect) absorbs the parents-and-two-children family; the Junior Suite handles the grandparents. The nine-hole course is the children's-introduction-to-golf course (2,200 yards, walkable, the river running through the fourth fairway); the seasonal outdoor pool, the three clay tennis courts, the Eagle Landing Tavern children's menu, and the dog-friendly policy round out the family-trip programme. The Jackson Ski Touring network is at the door in winter.
For the historic-hotel anniversary at a non-Mount-Washington price, Eagle Mountain House is the obvious choice. The Junior Suite with the gas fireplace and the Carter Notch view, the prime rib dinner at Highfields, the rocker line on the two-hundred-and-eighty-foot veranda at sunset, and the Carter Notch trailhead five minutes up the road, this is the New Hampshire anniversary the New England summer-resort generation has used for a hundred and fifty years.
For the country-inn honeymoon on a long-weekend cadence, the Eagle Mountain Junior Suite category and the property's quiet hillside position (the inn sits a mile and a half off Route 16, on Carter Notch Road, which carries no through-traffic past the hotel) is the right calibration. The dining programme is competent, the property is not overrun by event traffic, and the inn's pet-friendly programme means the dog can come along.
179 Carter Notch Road
Jackson, NH 03846
United States
Carter Notch · Jackson Village; Mount Washington Valley; Portland International Jetport 125 minutes; Manchester-Boston Regional 110 minutes; Boston Logan 175 minutes
96 rooms in the 1916 hotel block and the adjacent Carriage House
Standard Inn Room from $169/night
Premium Inn Room (Carter Notch view) from $209/night
Junior Suite (gas fireplace, sitting area) from $289/night
Two-Bedroom Family Suite from $369/night
Check-in: 3:00 PM
Check-out: 11:00 AM
Opened July 4, 1879 as Carter Notch Inn; current building 1916 reconstruction; Historic Hotels of America since 2008; dog-friendly ($50 nightly fee)
Two-hundred-and-eighty-foot wraparound veranda (1916 original)
Nine-hole Eagle Mountain Golf Course (1931 par 32, 2,200 yards)
Seasonal heated outdoor pool (May-October)
Three clay tennis courts
Highfields dining room and Eagle Landing Tavern
Dog-friendly accommodations
Free Wi-Fi (property-wide)
Jackson Ski Touring trail access at door
From $169 / night. The Junior Suites and the Premium Inn Rooms book two to three months ahead for the foliage window and the President's Day winter window; mid-week shoulder-season rates (late April, early May, early November) routinely run below $150. The Stay-and-Play package (room, breakfast, and a round of nine holes for two) prices well below the equivalent room-and-greens-fee rate.
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