Since the Old Man was only visible for a few hundred yards at a specific spot and there’s little evidence of human land use in the area from centuries ago, it’s possible he wasn’t seen or ...

But on May 3, 2003, the Old Man of the Mountain collapsed. >> May 3 now Old Man of the Mountain Day in New Hampshire Experts said that over centuries of freezing and thawing, the rocks gave way.

Dedicated in 2011, the Old Man of the Mountain Profiler Plaza sits on the edge of Profile Lake, at the foot of Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire's Franconia Notch, alongside Interstate 93.