Hiking Trails

Be thankful for volunteers giving time, energy, muscle and care for the earth.  They help manage our lands at group workdays throughout the year. And the frosty mornings of November are no exception!

The recipient of the Forest Society’s 2016 Trish Churchill Volunteer of the Year award is no newcomer to conservation or land stewardship.  Ben Haubrich first became familiar with the Forest Society in the early 1970s when, fresh out of college, he became the manager of Monadnock State Park.  At

After a recent timber harvest at Weeks Woods in Gilford, volunteers and staff teamed-up to build two new hiking trail bridges and to seed-down portions of skid trails with rye grass seed as part of putting the timber sale to bed and improving the hiking trail network.  The hiking trails had been

What are these hikers doing?

The Jolly Rovers Trail Crew is as hardcore as the name suggests.  This all-volunteer group from New York’s Hudson Valley recently spent 10 days working on a project halfway up the slopes of Mount Monadnock, on the heavily traveled White Cross Trail.  They built a rock staircase, 32 steps long, ou

The Forest Society’s Monson Center has plenty of trails perfect for hunting for Pokémon!

Friday, July 15, 2016 (All day)
JaffreyJaffrey Township, Cheshire County

Join us for the 11th annual Monadnock Trails Week!  Volunteers are needed to help refurbish hiking trails on New Hampshire's most hiked mountain, Mount Monadnock.  Projects will include bog bridging, stone staircases, cleaning and/or construction of new waterbars, clearing a nature trail, and more.  No experience is necessary, but you should be willing to get dirty!  Each day runs from 9am-3pm; volunteers can join for just one day, or as many as you like.

Saturday, April 23, 2016 - 9:00am
WeareHillsborough County, New Hampshire

Join Charlie and Brenden Bowen, land stewards for the Society for the Protection of NH Forests, on a spring hike to the top of Mount Wallingford on the Buxton-Simons Forest in Weare. This 226-acre property has nice forested walking trails with beaver marshes and mountain views. Come and explore it with us! This moderately strenuous hike of 3.2 miles will take approximately 2-3 hours. We will meet at the trailhead on Flanders Memorial Road (approximately 1.5 miles west of the Town Hall) at 8:45am.