Bretton Woods, New Hampshire Bretton Woods, New Hampshire Bretton Woods is positioned in New Hampshire Bretton Woods - Bretton Woods Bretton Woods is an region inside the town of Carroll, New Hampshire, United States, whose principal points of interest are three leisure and recreation facilities.

Being virtually surrounded by the White Mountain National Forest, the vista from Bretton Woods toward Mount Washington and the Presidential Range includes no momentous artificial structures other than the Mount Washington Cog Railway and the Mount Washington Hotel.

Bretton Woods was the site of the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in 1944 which has given its name to the Bretton Woods fitness and led to the establishment of both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in 1945.

In 1772 King George III granted Sir Thomas Wentworth of Bretton Hall, a nation home in West Bretton, West Yorkshire, and 82 others, a parcel of 24,640 acres (9,970 ha) of territory to be laid out as a plantation in the White Mountains.

The Mount Washington Hotel and Resort is one in the last surviving handful of New Hampshire grand hotels, and includes two golf courses, alpine and Nordic skiing, a 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m2) spa, sled rides, dog sled rides, tennis, horseback riding and much more in its facilities.

The Bretton Woods Mountain Resort ski region serves both downhill and cross-country skiing, primarily in the Rosebrook Mountains, positioned in Bethlehem to the south.

The "Base Road" from Bretton Woods and Fabyan's is the preferred route to the lower end of the tracks (the Base Station of the Cog), except in those winters when the Mount Clinton Road is instead the only plowed road to their intersection.

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