Warren Falls
Clear pools and sculpted ledges compress a river into a popular swimming gorge
Places and wildlife — page 14
Browse Explore’s field guide to destinations, wildlife, art, and the natural world. Open a discovery for practical details and background.
Thundering Brook Falls
An accessible boardwalk reaches a tall, multi-tier mountain cascade, with wetland boardwalk and tiered waterfall shaping the visit
Hamilton Falls Natural Area
A powerful waterfall exposes the danger of polished bedrock and hidden hydraulics
Quechee Gorge
The Ottauquechee River cuts Vermont’s deepest gorge beneath Route 4, with deep gorge and high bridge shaping the visit
Long Trail
America’s oldest long-distance trail follows Vermont’s Green Mountain spine
Mount Mansfield via Sunset Ridge
An exposed ridge reaches Vermont’s highest summit over fragile alpine ground
Camel’s Hump via Monroe Trail
A sustained forest climb reaches Vermont’s most recognizable undeveloped summit
Island Line Trail
A rail trail appears to run across Lake Champlain, with stone causeway and bike ferry shaping the visit
Stowe Recreation Path
A five-mile greenway links village, river, farms, and mountain views, with river bridges and farm meadows shaping the visit
Lye Brook Falls Trail
A forest trail reaches one of Vermont’s tallest waterfalls, with long cascade and forest trail shaping the visit
Sterling Pond Trail
A steep notch trail reaches Vermont’s highest-elevation trout pond, with stone stair trail and sterling pond shaping the visit
Mount Pisgah Trail
Cliff-edge overlooks reveal Lake Willoughby’s glacial depth, with lake willoughby below and cliff overlook shaping the visit
Burlington Greenway
A waterfront path turns Burlington’s lake edge into public space, with waterfront path and adirondack sunset shaping the visit
VINS Nature Center
Raptor rehabilitation becomes a lesson in anatomy, habitat, and ethics
Currier Museum of Art
The collection moves from Renaissance painting to modern sculpture, while the Zimmerman and Kalil houses make domestic architecture part of the museum.
Strawbery Banke Museum
Four centuries of neighborhood life survive on the Portsmouth waterfront
SEE Science Center
A vast LEGO Millyard, electricity, forces, light, and biology exhibits connect playful experiments to the city’s industrial setting.
McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center
Aircraft, spacecraft engineering, astronomy, and the stories of Christa McAuliffe and Alan Shepard connect local biography to exploration.
New Hampshire Historical Society
The Granite State explains itself through objects, archives, and a landmark building
Wright Museum of World War II
Vehicles, uniforms, advertising, household objects, and changing exhibitions examine how war reorganized work and daily life.
Canterbury Shaker Village
Meetinghouses, dwellings, workshops, gardens, furniture, music, and water-powered systems reveal a community designed around order and shared labor.
Aviation Museum of New Hampshire
Aircraft, engines, models, oral histories, and the original Manchester airport terminal connect barnstorming to modern aerospace.
American Independence Center
The Ladd-Gilman house, original documents, furniture, and community programs connect national independence to Exeter’s political networks.
New Hampshire Telephone Museum
Switchboards and handsets turn communication history into a tactile system
Hood Museum of Art
Indigenous, African, European, American, and contemporary works support close study rather than a single encyclopedic march.
Museum of the White Mountains
The White Mountains are interpreted as culture, science, and contested landscape
Millyard Museum
Manchester’s brick mills explain both industrial power and immigrant labor
Children’s Museum of New Hampshire
Play spaces turn regional ecology and everyday systems into experiments
New England Ski Museum
Equipment, racing, trail development, fashion, and mountain culture show how winter travel became sport and regional economy.
USS Albacore Museum
An experimental submarine reveals how hull design changed underwater speed
Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum
Indigenous cultures are presented through living traditions rather than a vanished past
The Fort at No. 4
A reconstructed frontier settlement interprets colonial conflict and survival
Seacoast Science Center
Gulf of Maine life is interpreted beside the tide pools that sustain it
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
An artist’s home, studios, gardens, and sculpture form one designed landscape
Moffatt-Ladd House & Garden
A merchant house connects Revolution, trade, enslavement, and a terraced garden
John Paul Jones House
A Georgian house opens into Portsmouth history beyond its famous lodger
Warner House
The oldest urban brick house in northern New England preserves remarkable murals
Franklin Pierce Homestead
A president’s boyhood home frames ambition, party politics, and rural privilege
Robert Frost Farm Historic Site
Farm fields and stone walls restore the working landscape behind Frost’s poems
Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion
A rambling waterfront mansion preserves New Hampshire’s royal-government world
Fort Constitution Historic Site
Portsmouth Harbor fortifications occupy the site of a pivotal 1774 raid
Fort Stark State Historic Site
Coastal artillery, a small visitor center, gun emplacements, and an unmarked path show twentieth-century defense as landscape engineering.
Weeks State Park
A mountaintop estate links conservation politics with a panoramic fire tower
Historic Harrisville
A preserved mill village shows waterpower as an entire community system
Mount Washington Cog Railway
Rack railway engineering climbs directly into Mount Washington weather
Franconia Notch State Park
A mountain pass concentrates cliffs, lakes, trails, and transportation history
Crawford Notch State Park
Railroad, avalanche history, and high cliffs share a White Mountain gateway
Monadnock State Park
Several steep routes cross hardwood forest, open ledges, fire history, and a broad summit visible across New England.