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  • Cold is Cool IF You're Prepared! A Guide to Winter Hiking & Recreation

    Anna Berry
    December 10, 2020

    A guide to plowed Forest Society reservations so you can recreate responsibly this winter.

  • Forest Notes: Tending to Mount Major’s Trails

    Wendy Weisiger
    December 2, 2020

    In 2013, the Forest Society launched the “Everybody Hikes Mount Major” campaign to protect the trails and land surrounding Mount Major Reservation ...

  • More Than Leaves Changing Outside This Fall

    Anna Berry
    September 27, 2020

     

    My two five-year-olds, newly initiated into kindergarten, reminded me authoritatively this week that it’s officially fall. How could I ...

Wantastiquet-Monadnock Trail

The Wantastiquet Monadnock Trail (WMT) stretches 50 miles and includes the Forest Society's Madame Sherri Forest, Gap Mountain, Monadnock Reservations.
The Wantastiquet Monadnock Trail (WMT) stretches 50 miles and includes the Forest Society's Madame Sherri Forest, Gap Mountain, and Monadnock Reservations. Photo by Jerry Monkman/Ecophotography.

** IMPORTANT NOTICE, 8/14/2020: The "South Trail" on Gap Mountain and the South Trail Parking Area on Gap Mountain Road in Fitzwilliam are currently CLOSED for forest management activity. The "North Trail" on Gap Mountain, and the North parking area on Bullard Road in Jaffrey remain open. Please respect this trail closure for your safety and that of the timber harvest crew. See this PDF for bypass information around the closure. (This notice will be updated once the forest managment activity is complete.) **

The 50 mile Wantastiquet-Monadnock Hiking Trail (WMT) can now be hiked over its whole length from Brattleboro to Mt. Monadnock. Well-known public lands along the trail include the Mt. Wantastiquet, Bear Mt., Pisgah and Mt. Monadnock State Parks, the Horatio Colony Preserve, the Cheshire Rail Trail, and the Forest Society's Gap Mountain and Monadnock Reservations and Madame Sherri Forest.

The WMT is the culmination of 25 years of planning, negotiations and trail building begun by members of the Chesterfield Conservation Commission and the park staff and Friends of Pisgah Park.  The Wantastiquiet-Monadnock Trail Coalition, the enlarged group now overseeing the trail, includes the Forest Society, the State of New Hampshire, the Troy, Hinsdale and Winchester Conservation Commissions, the Swanzey Rail Trail Advisory Committee, Antioch New England, Colony Memorial Trust, Keene Parks and Rec, the Monadnock Conservancy, Pathways for Keene and the Southwest Regional Planning Commission.

For more information about the trail and the Wantastiquet-Monadnock Trail Coalition, visit their NEW Website.

Click the links below to download a PDF map of the whole trail or section.

Whole Trail Map

WMT #1 Brattleboro to Pisgah State Park

WMT #2 Pisgah Traverse

WMT #3 Keene Connector

WMT #4 Keene to Troy

WMT #5 Troy to Monadnock

For further information, email Tom Duston at tduston@keene.edu.

Wantastiquet Monadnock Trail (WMT)
Wantastiquet Monadnock Trail (WMT). Click the links above to download the complete maps.

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