Fourth Connecticut Lake Trail
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Fourth Connecticut Lake Trail is a public trail maintained by the Nature Conservancy that criss-crosses the international border between the United States
United States
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 and Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 (New Hampshire
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...

 and Quebec
Quebec
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) for 0.6 mile (0.965604 km) and ends in a loop around the Fourth Connecticut Lake
Fourth Connecticut Lake
The Fourth Connecticut Lake is the northernmost, smallest and most remote of the Connecticut Lakes in New Hampshire, United States of America. It is the source of the Connecticut River. The Fourth Connecticut Lake Trail, which criss-crosses the international border between the United States and...

 in the United States. The Fourth Connecticut Lake Trail is one of the few international trails in North America
North America
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. For people living in the United States, identification and passports to Canada are not needed to go on the trail, since the trail starts on the United States side of the international border and ends in the United States, even though it does go into Canada.

Hiking the trail

The sign for the trail head is north west of the U.S. border inspection building, and the trail begins just to its right (east). The trail has no cell phone coverage, requires some non-technical climbing, and it starts at a good elevation, so one should be prepared even in summer.
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