Mount Carleton

Mount Carleton, standing at 820 metres (2,690 ft), is the highest peak in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It is located in Mount Carleton Provincial Park and is a key part of the Canadian section of the International Appalachian Trail. The mountain was named after Thomas Carleton, New Brunswick's first lieutenant governor, and is part of the Notre Dame Mountains chain.

Before airplanes were widely used for watching the land, there was a small building on top of Mount Carleton to help spot fires in the remote northern part of the province. This helped people find wildfires quickly by using signals from these buildings and other tall towers.

Mount Carleton is a special kind of hill called a monadnock. This means it is made from strong igneous rocks that stayed standing after an ancient flat land surface was lifted up and then carved away over millions of years by wind, water, and ice. The rocks here are about 400 million years old and came from ancient volcanic activity.