It is sometimes referred to as Mount Kearsarge, a name officially assigned to a mountain in Merrimack County.

The Weeks Brook Trail, a much less-used 4.7-mile (7.6 km) route, approaches Kearsarge from the east, from a trailhead on Forest Road 317 in Chatham.

In 1909, the Appalachian Mountain Club granted the New Hampshire Forestry Commission use of the destroyed hotel for a fire lookout.

[4] The Pequawket Fire Tower was built in 1913 and staffed by the state and the US Forest Service until 1960.

In 1991, the fire tower was added to the National Historic Lookout Register,[5] and is open to visitors to the summit of Kearsarge North.