Wantastiquet-Monadnock Trail
** 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.
WMT #1 Brattleboro to Pisgah State Park
For further information, email Tom Duston at tduston@keene.edu.
