About Sugar Hill, NH

We're getting married at our home in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire. If you've never been to the area, you're in for a treat! New Hampshire's youngest town gets its name from the large grove of sugar maples in the hills--yep, the same trees used to make maple syrup! (Sidenote: There are no sugar maples on our property--that we know of.)

Sugar Hill has the best view of the White Mountains in all of New Hampshire. The view from our deck isn't so bad, either! ;) The beautiful, rural landscape is like nothing we've ever experienced--both calming and inspiring.


Back in the day, the community was a fashionable Victorian resort. People from all over arrived by train to escape the heat, humidity and pollution of summers in Boston, Hartford, New York and, yes, even Philadelphia.

Out of all the hostelries built, the grandest was the Sunset Hill House, built in 1880. It has the longest porch on a single side in New Hampshire and the oldest 9-hole golf course in the state (built in 1897).

The first resort-based ski school in the U.S. was opened right down the road from our house in 1929 by Katharine "Kate" Peckett with her husband, Austrian ski instructor Sig Buchmayer, both important figures in the history of skiing.