This trail has two branches, one leading to the summit of Mount Webster (3,910 feet), and the other to Mount Jackson (4,052 feet), and can be hiked as a 6.5-mile loop using the Webster Cliff Trail to connect the two summits.

In the decades prior to 1911, the unregulated logging practices of private timber companies in the White Mountains had resulted in a damaged landscape susceptible to both fire and flood. Fires had burned thousands of acres, and flash floods affected the water power necessary to the mills of major industrial centers downstream, such as Manchester, New Hampshire, and Lowell, Massachusetts. Concerns over losses to industry, business, and tourism, and the growing conservation movement led to citizen action. The Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) and Society for Protection of New Hampshire Forests (SPNHF) spearheaded an effort to ensure the permanent protection of the White Mountains from further depredation. After years of lobbying and intense public pressure, Senator John Weeks of Massachusetts, a native of Lancaster, New Hampshire, introduced legislation that became known as the Weeks Act. The Weeks Act was passed by Congress in 1911, appropriating 9 million dollars to purchase 6 million acres of land in the Eastern U.S. In turn, this led to the creation of the White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) in 1918, and twenty-one other national forests throughout the north and southeast. Many of the groups who were instrumental in the passage of the Weeks Act, including the SPNHF and the AMC, are still active today, and the WMNF has grown from 7,000 acres to almost 800,000. Today, the reforested mountains and hillsides supply forest products and provide magnificent recreational opportunities while maintaining healthy watersheds and ecosystems.

The AllTrails website has a description and map of a hike using the Webster-Jackson Trail.

A climb up the two southernmost peaks of the Presidential Range, the Mount Pierce, Jackson, and Webster Loop is a 9-mile lightly trafficked loop trail located near Bretton Woods, New Hampshire that features a river and is rated as difficult. 

This is a great loop trail that will take you up Mount Webster and along the mountain’s cliffs on the way up, then head over the partially bare summit of Mount Jackson, past the AMC Mitzpah Hut, and then to the top of semi-wooded Mount Pierce. You’ll return via the southern end of the Crawford Path back down to Crawford Notch.