Mount Prospect is located in the Dalton Mountains in northern New Hampshire near the Connecticut River. Access is from US 3 just south of Lancaster, New Hampshire.

The mountain is located in the John Wingate Weeks State Historic Site, and the lodge atop Mount Prospect was the summer home of John Weeks, who built a road to the top, then built his home atop the mountain and also built a tower so as to view the White mountains to the east.

John Wingate Weeks, (1860-1926) renowned Father of the Eastern National Forest, author of the Weeks Acts, passed by the US Congress on March 1, 1911. The Act enables the government to buy privately owned land to be permanently reserved, held and administered as national forest lands for government protection, development and use of their natural resources.

Much of the White Mountain National Forest, one of the 48 such forests made possible by The Weeks Acts, can be viewed from the lodge and from the fieldstone fire tower near the lodge.

The sun is already high in the sky, about a hand up from the horizon when I open the curtains this morning. I get up, put my jeans and sandals on, step outside and walk one lap around the parking lot. Then I return back to the jammer to head north on US 302 along the Ammonoosuc River and soon arrive at a f-mart in Littleton, NH for coffee.

I continue north on NH 116 until it connects with US highway 3 in Whitefield, NH and continue north on US 3 thinking that I need a park to stop at to make something to eat and would like to clean the jammer as it has gotten dirty from the previous rain.

Too, I really need to clean both the outside and inside of the windows. Still on US 3, I soon see John Wingate Week's State Historical Park with a parking lot alongside the highway, turn into the lot and notice that there is a portable outhouse and think that this is perfect. It is about eight am when I arrive and the sign on the roadway stays the park gate opens at 10 am, the gate being at the other end of the parking lot.

Again, methinks Perfect! I park in the shade, use the outhouse, then get out a gallon of water, my bucket, two wash hand towels (one to wash and the second to dry) and begin washing the jammer.

As I am packing up, a vehicle drives up to the gate, removes the lock, swings the gate to the side and heads up the hill. Soon, I am ready and begin my drive to the top of Mount Prospect and before arriving at the top, there is a pullout with a really good view of the White Mountains to the east with Mount Washington at the top of the ridgeline. I continue up to the summit and then climb the forty-nine steps to the top of the stone fire tower and see an even better view of the White Mountains, even as far back as Mount Moosilauke much farther to the south