Mount Success

{{Short description|Mountain in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States}} {{Use American English|date=January 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} '''Mount Success''', formerly '''Ingalls Mountain''', is a mountain in the [[Mahoosuc Range]] with an elevation of {{convert|3565|ft}}. It is located in [[Coos County, New Hampshire]].<ref>[http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=6890 Mount Success - Peakbagger.com]</ref>

==Description== The mountain is flanked by [[North Bald Cap]] mountain to the southwest, Mount Carlo in [[Maine]] to the northeast, and The Outlook to the northwest.<ref name=BGN>{{cite web| url= https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:3:0::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:872754,Mount%20Success | title=Mount Success| author=U.S. Geological Survey | work=Geographic Names Information System | publisher=U.S. Board on Geographic Names| access-date=March 23, 2017}}</ref> Its summit is crossed by the Mahoosuc Trail (part of the [[Appalachian Trail]]), and can also be accessed as a day hike via the Success Trail.

The mountain is entirely within the [[Androscoggin River]] watershed. The north and west sides of the mountain drain to the North Branch of Horne Brook and thence northwest to the Androscoggin in [[Berlin, New Hampshire|Berlin]], while the south and east sides drain to tributaries of Lary Brook, which flows south to the Androscoggin in [[Gilead, Maine]].<ref name=USGS>{{cite web| url=http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=44.47176,-71.03872&z=14&t=T&marker0=44.47139%2C-71.03889%2CMount%20Success| title=Mount Success| author=U.S. Geological Survey| work=Shelburne 7.5' quadrangle| date=1995| publisher=Acme Mapper| access-date=March 24, 2017}}</ref>

==History== In 1936, the peak, then known as "Ingalls Mountain", was renamed "Mount Success" to distinguish it from the nearby Mount Ingalls in [[Shelburne, New Hampshire]].<ref>{{cite web| url= https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/gazvector.feat_card?p_file=416 | title=Mt. Success| author=[[United States Board on Geographic Names|Division of Geographic Names]] | date=February 25, 1936| access-date=March 23, 2017}}</ref> On November 30, 1954, [[Northeast Airlines]] Flight 792 took off from [[Laconia Municipal Airport]] with the hopes of landing at [[Berlin Regional Airport]]. With little visibility due to poor weather, the [[Douglas DC-3]], carrying four crew members and three passengers, crashed near the summit of Mount Success.<ref>[http://www.summitpost.org/mount-success/182039 Mount Success : Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering : SummitPost]</ref> All the passengers survived the initial impact, but two later died while awaiting rescue.

==References== {{portal|New Hampshire}} {{reflist}} {{coord|44|28|17|N|71|02|20|W|type:mountain_region:US-NH|display=title}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Success, Mount}} [[Category:Mountains of Coös County, New Hampshire]] [[Category:Mountains of New Hampshire]] [[Category:Mountains on the Appalachian Trail]]