Forest Society Invites Volunteers to Help Restore Mount Monadnock Trails
at the Fifth Annual Monadnock Trail Week
The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests is organizing the Fifth Annual Monadnock Trail Week trail restoration effort. Join conservation professionals and other volunteers to help restore degraded hiking trails on one of New Hampshire’s most storied mountains. Forest Society staff and volunteers will work from July 17 through 21 to construct new footbridges, rebuild water bars and stone steps, and brush out hiking trails. No prior trail work experience is needed to join the group and contribute, and volunteers may participate for one day or several.
This annual trail maintenance event is organized by the Forest Society. During last year’s event, more than 50 individuals volunteered more than 600 hours to clear trails, build bridges, and repair drainage ditches and water bars.
Mount Monadnock is one of the most-climbed mountains in the western hemisphere. In 1915 the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests conserved its first tract of 406 acres on Mount Monadnock, beginning a long-term effort to protect the natural integrity of the mountain and its surroundings. Since then, the Forest Society has acquired a total of 4,000 acres at Mount Monadnock and Gap Mountain in the towns of Dublin, Marlborough, Troy, and Jaffrey. The Forest Society leases much of its land to the State to be operated as Mount Monadnock State Park.
For more information or to volunteer, contact Carry Deegan at or call 603-224-9945.