Month: March 2026

A charming look at New Hampshire’s Elephant Head rock formation in Crawford Notch, featuring vintage postcards and a modern rainy-day photo of this timeless natural curiosity.

I’m not sure what it is about New Hampshire and rock formations that resemble people or animals, but the Granite State certainly seems to have an abundance of them—and I’m not complaining. In the above photo is the Elephant Head, which I thoughtfully circled to make it easier to spot (that was kind of me, wasn’t it?). It’s a large boulder shaped uncannily like an elephant’s head emerging from the side of a hill, located at Crawford Notch, sometimes called the Gateway to the White Mountains. The two images above date to around 1910 and comes from my collection of vintage postcards.

The second photo, taken by me a few years ago on a very rainy day, shows that the formation hasn’t changed much over time. Someone has since added a white dot to represent the eye,  that was sweet of them, eh?

The elephant head isn’t the only rock formation that looks like something other than a rock, but I will touch on those in later posts.  :)