Cadillac Mountain summit

The highest point on the island, and for a decade the terminus of a cog railway.

Green Mountain until 1918, when George Dorr renamed it for Antoine Laumet, Sieur de Cadillac, whose French grant once included the island. From 1883 to 1890 a cog railway climbed from Eagle Lake to a summit hotel; the hotel closed in the mid 1890s and the locomotives went to Mount Washington. The summit road needs a vehicle reservation in season; hiking up needs none.