Trail Expo  - Sunday May 17 at Hampshire Hills - 12:00 to 5:00 PM.
 
FREE ADMISSION FOR THE PUBLIC
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED FOR ATTENDEES.
 
We have presentations for young and old alike!
 
·         Fritz Wetherbee, whom we all see nightly on “NH Chronicle” on WMUR TV will be at the expo giving  a talk.  We think he will be [...]

Milford Conservation Commission Coordinator Rita Carroll writes: 

 
 
Trail Expo  - Sunday May 17 at Hampshire Hills - free admission 
 
The Milford Conservation Commission is sponsoring its second Trail Expo on Sunday, May 17 from  12:00 noon to 5pm at the Hampshire Hills Sports and Fitness Center, Emerson Rd., Milford, NH.  We are expecting this event to [...]

If you haven’t explored the Arched Bridge Conservation area lately (off Middle Dunstable Road, literally spitting distance over the state line), you might consider a look. The Dunstable Rural Land Trust has opened and marked several trails previously posted as off-limits, thanks to the wisdom and generosity of voters at a recent town meting.
This, too, [...]

I had forgotten, in my post surgical haze, to acknowledge this year’s Stoneheads. I did last year, after all, and as it happens, the same two trail runners extraordinaire have repeated.
 
Thomas Parker, 41, of Nashua, completed 20 races in the Western Mass. Athletic Club’s Grand Tree series, for a total of 1382 points. Way to [...]

Running is relative.
Casual joggers (not to mention those who don’t run at all) might think marathoners are nuts.
People accustomed to road running can occasionally be seen leaving trail races, muttering and shaking their heads. Runners who have completed a few marathons begin to look in awe and envy at ultra-runners, who pick off 50 or 100 [...]

I like trains just fine, but I like bicycles even better, and the Nashua River Rail Trail (paved) and the Mason Rail Trail (unpaved) are two of my favorite places to ride a bicycle. Maybe someday they will be connected, but don’t count on it.
The two trails do connect, in the sense that both of [...]

I wrote before about good places to bicycle off road in Nashua (and elsewhere), but I was holding out.
I didn’t want to share word of my favorite local spot, both for fear of exposing it to overuse and because I wasn’t sure it was a legit, public trail… it seemed too good to be true. [...]

I got acquainted with the Dunstable Rural Land Trust property by mountain bike this past summer. No surprise, it’s also a great place to ski. 
The most popular parking spot and access point off Main Dunstable Road isn’t open in the winter; they don’t plow the shoulder there. There is, however, a small parking area along Main Street in Dunstable [...]

It struck me that it would be useful to put together a bunch of links for online trail maps all in one place.So, I’m working on it. I’ll add more as they occur to me, and as always I welcome suggestions:
Bear Brook State Park, Allenstown: http://www.snemba.org/bearbrooktrails.jpg 
Beaver Brook, Hollis: http://www.beaverbrook.org/PDFs/bbmap.pdf
Cohos Trail: http://www.cohostrail.org/
Dunstable, Mass: http://web.mac.com/leedingle/iweb/drlt.org/Overview%20of%20Dunstable%20Conservation%20Lands.html
Fort Rock, Exeter: http://www.nemba.org/ridingzone/Fort_Rock.html 
Gap [...]