Corridor Management Plan for the Mount Prospect Road
Weeks State Park
Lancaster, New Hampshire
In 1994, the Mount Prospect Road was designated New Hampshire’s first State Scenic Byway. The road serves as the primary entrance to Weeks State Park and the former country home of John W. Weeks, U.S. Senator, conservationist and the man most responsible for the creation of the White Mountain Forest in New Hampshire.
Unlike most corridor management plans that deal with Right of Way acquisitions, easements, land use and outdoor advertising, the corridor management plan developed for the Mount Prospect Road was very site specific and focused on design and management issues. Working closely with a citizen’s advisory group and various State agencies, Saucier + Flynn conducted an Intrinsic Quality Inventory, established a Vision Statement and a series of Goals and Objectives and a series of landscape management and road maintenance guidelines, which has successfully preserved the natural, scenic and historical integrity of the Mount Prospect Road for the past decade.
