New Hampshire: 49 state parks, 13 historic sites, 4 state beaches, 4 natural areas, 2 recreation areas, 2 scenic areas and 1 state forest

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Parks & natural areas 56

Ahern State ParkOne hundred and twenty-eight acres of Laconia woodland with 3,500 feet of frontage on Lake Winnisquam, laced…
Androscoggin Wayside ParkA roadside stop on the Androscoggin River inside the Thirteen Mile Woods, administered as part of…
Bear Brook State ParkAt over 10,000 acres this is the largest developed park in the state: forty miles of trail for hikers, riders…
Cannon Mountain Ski AreaNew Hampshire's only state-owned ski area, with 11 lifts over 285 acres, 25 miles of trails and the highest…
Cardigan Mountain State ParkA 5,655-acre hiking park in Orange, where a road climbs the western flank of Mount Cardigan and trails carry…
Cathedral Ledge State ParkA mile of auto road climbs to the rim of a 700-foot cliff above the Saco River Valley, where an accessible…
Chesterfield Gorge Natural AreaA rock canyon with walls seventy feet high, cut by Wild Brook on its way down through thirteen acres of…
Clough State ParkA 900-foot sand beach on 150-acre Everett Lake, impounded on the Piscataquog River by a 1962 dam. Boat…
Coleman State ParkTwenty-nine campsites on Little Diamond Pond in Stewartstown, deep in the north country twelve miles east of…
Connecticut Lakes Headwaters Working ForestPublic recreation over 146,000 acres of privately held commercial timberland in Pittsburg, arranged by the…
Crawford Notch State ParkFive thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five acres of the notch itself, with access to waterfalls, fishing…
Deer Mountain CampgroundTwenty-five primitive sites between the Second and Third Connecticut Lakes, on state forest land five minutes…
Dixville Notch State ParkOne hundred and twenty-seven acres of gorge, brook and waterfall in the state's far north, with trails to…
Echo Lake State ParkA swimming and picnic lake under the cliffs at North Conway, with a path around the shore and trails climbing…
Ellacoya State ParkSix hundred feet of Gilford sand facing across Winnipesaukee to the Ossipee and Sandwich hills. Behind the…
Flume GorgeA natural chasm running 800 feet into the foot of Mount Liberty, its Conway granite sides eighty-odd feet…
Forest Lake State ParkAmong the ten parks the state started with in 1935, 397 acres in Dalton fronted by 200 feet of sand. No ramp…
Franconia Notch State ParkAn eight-mile mountain pass between the Kinsman and Franconia ranges, threaded by a parkway that runs from…
Franconia Notch State Park - Lafayette Place CampgroundNinety-seven wooded tent sites in the middle of the notch, each with a table, parking and an open fireplace…
Gardner Memorial Wayside ParkA picnic area beside Kimpton Brook in the 6,675-acre Gile State Forest, on the Springfield–Wilmot line. A…
Greenfield State ParkFour hundred acres of pond, bog and forest reaching the shore of Otter Lake, with a swimming beach…
Hampton Beach State ParkYear-round Atlantic frontage at the southern end of Hampton's sand, with swimming, surfcasting and picnicking…
Jericho Mountain State ParkOne of the newest parks in the system, a few miles northwest of Berlin and built around riding: ATV, UTV…
Kingston State ParkForty-four acres on Great Pond, a short drive from both the seacoast and Boston, with bathhouses at either…
Lake Francis State ParkForty-five campsites on a 2,000-acre lake in the Great North Woods, nine with 20-amp water and electric and…
Lake Tarleton State ParkForty-eight undeveloped acres in Piermont beside a 315-acre lake, with an unguarded beach and, in season…
Livermore Falls Recreation AreaA Pemigewasset River access site in Livermore Falls State Forest, first acquired in 1918 and enlarged in…
Lodges at Coleman State ParkFive heated lodges and seven camper cabins at Coleman State Park in Stewartstown, from a bunk-and-futon room…
Madison Boulder Natural AreaSeventeen acres around one of the largest glacial erratics in North America: eighty-three feet long…
Milan Hill State ParkA hilltop campground ten miles north of Berlin with ten sites, four of them yurts, and a fire tower that…
Miller State ParkNew Hampshire's oldest state park, set on Pack Monadnock — 2,290 feet — and reached in season by a winding…
Mollidgewock State ParkForty-four tent sites on the Androscoggin in the Thirteen Mile Woods Scenic Area, forty-two at base camp and…
Monadnock State ParkThe 3,165-foot mountain that Emerson and Thoreau wrote about, nearly a thousand feet taller than anything…
Moose Brook State ParkFifty-nine campsites at Gorham, in the shadow of the Presidentials, where a brook passes through a shallow…
Mt. Sunapee State ParkSwimming, launching and boat rentals on a lake of 4,085 acres, with a campground of lean-tos and platforms…
Mt. Washington State ParkA 58.8-acre parcel on the highest summit in the Northeast, 6,288 feet up and ringed by the White Mountain…
Nansen Wayside ParkFourteen acres on the bank of the Androscoggin at the foot of the Nansen Ski Jump, with a boat launch, picnic…
North Hampton State ParkA quiet family beach on the North Hampton oceanfront with a bathhouse, showers and metered parking. Pets are…
Northwood Meadows State ParkSix hundred and seventy-four acres of woods and wetland kept deliberately undeveloped, good for nature walks…
Odiorne Point State ParkA rocky Rye shoreline with wide ocean views and a dense network of trails through thick coastal growth, where…
Pawtuckaway State ParkA lake beach 700 feet long with boat rentals, backed by trails to a summit fire tower, a beaver-and-heron…
Pillsbury State ParkA quiet, lightly developed park of woods, ponds and wetland where moose and loons are both regular. Canoe and…
Pisgah State ParkTwenty-one square miles, the biggest holding in the state system, taking in an entire watershed above the…
Rhododendron State ParkSixteen acres of Rhododendron maximum, the biggest such grove anywhere in northern New England and a National…
Rollins State ParkThree and a half miles of scenic auto road wind up Mount Kearsarge's southern flank to a picnic ground in a…
Rye Harbor State ParkA grassy, rocky peninsula called Ragged Neck between Rye Harbor and the open Atlantic, with the Isles of…
Sculptured Rocks Natural AreaTwo hundred and seventy-two acres where the Cockermouth River has sliced a narrow canyon into bedrock above…
Silver Lake State ParkA thousand feet of sand curving along 34-acre Silver Lake, inside an 80-acre park in Hollis. Canoe and kayak…
Umbagog Lake State ParkA base campground of twenty-seven water-and-electric sites and two cabins, plus thirty-three remote campsites…
Wadleigh State ParkPines shading picnic tables beside the beach at North Sutton, on the southeastern side of Kezar Lake, with…
Wallis Sands State ParkOcean swimming at Rye with the Isles of Shoals on the horizon, a store for food and drinks, and a bathhouse…
Weeks State Park & The John Wingate Weeks Historic SiteJohn Wingate Weeks — congressman, senator, Secretary of War — built his Mount Prospect estate here, and his…
Wellington State ParkNewfound Lake — deep, cold and unusually clear — with the biggest freshwater beach New Hampshire's parks can…
Wentworth State ParkFifty acres on the shore of Wentworth Lake outside Wolfeboro, given over to swimming, picnicking and fishing…
White Lake State ParkA campground and day-use area in Tamworth on a lake the glaciers scooped out and their meltwater filled. The…
Winslow State ParkA picnic plateau at 1,820 feet on Mount Kearsarge's northwestern flank, looking north to the Whites and west…

Historic sites & museums 13

Bedell Bridge State Historic SiteSeventy-four acres of Connecticut River frontage where a two-span Burr truss once crossed into Vermont — no…
Daniel Webster BirthplaceThe two-room log cabin where the orator and statesman spent his infancy, standing in a clearing above a brook…
Endicott Rock Historic SiteNew England may hold no older public monument: on 1 August 1652 surveyors cut the name of Bay Colony governor…
Fort Constitution Historic SiteFort ruins on a spit at New Castle Island's northeastern tip, with the Piscataqua on one side and open ocean…
Fort Stark State Historic SiteA ten-acre former military post on Jerry's Point, where the Piscataqua, Little Harbor and the open ocean all…
Franklin Pierce Homestead Historic SiteThe Hillsborough house the fourteenth president lived in from infancy until his 1834 marriage, put up by his…
Governor Wentworth Historic SiteThe remains of a large plantation that John Wentworth, New Hampshire's second royal governor, built in…
Hannah Duston Memorial Historic SiteRaised in 1874, this was the earliest statue New Hampshire paid for out of public funds, standing on an…
Nansen Ski Jump State Historic SiteBuilt between 1936 and 1938 by Berlin, the National Youth Administration and the Nansen Ski Club, this…
Robert Frost Farm Historic SiteThe Derry farmhouse where Robert Frost lived from 1900 to 1911 and to which he traced many of his poems. A…
Taylor Mill Historic SiteAn up-and-down sawmill two centuries old, standing in 71 acres of Derry state forest and kept running jointly…
Wentworth-Coolidge MansionThe forty-room Portsmouth house of Benning Wentworth, New Hampshire's first royal governor from 1741 to 1767…
White Island Historical SiteNew Hampshire's only offshore lighthouse, on an island in the Isles of Shoals where a stone-and-shingle tower…

Beaches 4

Franconia Notch State Park - Echo Lake BeachSeven RV sites at the northern end of Echo Lake, open through the winter as well as the summer, with…
Jenness State BeachA compact stretch of Rye sand that suits families, with a bathhouse and metered parking for sixty-seven cars…
North BeachThe northern stretch of Hampton's oceanfront, with a bathhouse kept open year-round and metered parking along…
South Beach - Hampton Beach State ParkThe southern end of Hampton Beach State Park, backed by sand dunes, with a large outdoor pavilion, park store…

Trails & scenic stops 2

Beaver Brook Falls WaysideSeven and a third acres beside Route 145 in Colebrook, popular for hiking and equipped with a scenic picnic…
Eisenhower Memorial WaysideSeven acres given to the state by the Bretton Woods Corporation in 1979 in memory of President Dwight D…

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New Hampshire: 49 state parks, 13 historic sites, 4 state beaches, 4 natural areas, 2 recreation areas, 2 scenic areas and 1 state forest

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