Hikers and tourists come to visit, but there are people who live there also. During the summer, some staff of the restaurant was House and the cogwheel railway. Others live year round on Mount Washington Observatory and the Radio and TV transmitter building.

He is under constant threat of bad weather, even in summer, with the possibility of severe thunderstorms always present. For this reason, hikers are expressly informed of this and aware that this possibility should be prepared. When we say “bad time” on Mount Washington, we speak of strong winds (average of 35 miles per hour), low temperatures (with an annual average of over 27 degrees) and fog.

It is logical that a weather station will be built here at the summit of Mount Washington. Of course, a typical building would not withstand severe weather as part of the building with large wooden beams, bolted to concrete or sometimes in the rocks of the mountain winds, which sometimes resist the force of hurricanes was made. At the weather station April 12, 1934, the highest ever recorded wind gusts on land until this point has been recorded – 231 mph, but that only lasts a few moments.

However, hikers in the wilderness and adventure drew the view from the summit, Mount Washington is the highest of the White Mountains, a scene of clouds shadow around the mountain ranges near other .

Hiking is not the only way to get to the summit of Mount Washington. There is also a type of car of the funicular at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, which has scenic cruises climbed Mount Washington, so that tourists can experience took a ride on a train from an old steam locomotive and see the magnificent view of the mountaintop.