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New England By the Numbers: Mt. Washington Auto Road
by Ian Aldrich
24:37.6
minutes/seconds: record Auto Road time set by Harry Harkness in the first "Climb to the Clouds" race, July 1904
49:24
minutes/seconds: Thomas Danielson's record cycling time up the Auto Road, set in 2002
6:20.47
minutes/seconds: current Auto Road driving record set by Travis Pastrana in Sept. 2010 (advance Clouds test session)
$5
cost per person to take a stagecoach up the Carriage Road in 1871
130
minutes: Freeman Stanley's time driving the first auto to climb Mt. Washington, 1899
150
years old: age of the 7.6-mile Auto Road (called the Carriage Road in 1861), "America's oldest manmade tourist attraction"
750,000
total number of cars driven up the Auto Road since 1899
3
number of fatalities that have occurred on the road since it opened in 1861
$25 cost per car and driver to travel up the Auto Road in 2011
140,000
number of people who drive the Auto Road each year
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