New Hampshire used to have the same problem in the White Mountains. Mt. Washington, Mt. Lafayette, and a few others were being overwhelmed, while almost nobody

New Hampshire used to have the same problem in the White Mountains. Mt. Washington, Mt. Lafayette, and a few others were being overwhelmed, while almost nobody went anywhere else. One thing that helped was the popularization of the 4,000-footer list. Many people who might otherwise have followed the crowds because they simply didn't know any better were instead spread out on 48 peaks all over the park, from north to south and east to west. My wife has completed the list, I have somewhere around (probably just short of) 40, our 15yo daughter has around 20. A lot of our friends and acquaintances are also consciously planning trips around the list. Obviously there's a lot more to making this work, but it does seem to help spread both the trail impact and the commercial impact on the towns in the area.