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Best Mountain Biking in New Hampshire

This list represents the most popular mountain biking in New Hampshire (learn more about Top Trails). Use this list to plan your next New Hampshire mountain biking trip. Select a state and/or activity below to find even more top trails.

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#1. Newfields Rail Trail

  
A long and easy ride across southern New Hampshire on a converted railroad bed. The Newfields Rail-Trail is typical rail-trail fare: easy, level riding past towns and through forests. At 26.0 miles on…
From the guidebook "Discover Southern New Hampshire"
Newfields , NH - Mountain Biking - 26 miles    Best Trail in NH - Click to view all (About Top Trails)
Published by Appalachian Mountain Club Books

#2. Massabesic Lake

  
This ride's general location is east of Manchester on NH Bypass 28. Scenery includes lovely Massabesic Lake and surrounding semi-wooded terrain. On the lake shore sits a municipal park with baseball…
From the guidebook "Mountain Bike! New Hampshire"
Manchester , NH - Mountain Biking - 14 miles    Best Trail in NH - Click to view all (About Top Trails)
Published by Menasha Ridge Press

#3. Bear Brook State Park

  
Bear Brook rocks. Any mountain biking regular from the central part of Southern New Hampshire will attest to that. It holds a great diversity of trail types, obstacles, and topography. The loop cha…
From the guidebook "Mountain Bike America: New Hampshire & Maine"
Allenstown , NH - Mountain Biking - 10.1 miles   
Published by The Globe Pequot Press

#4. Mineral Site and Moat Mountain

  
Good views of Moat Mountain greet riders who make it to the end of this ride, which combines a swift descent on technical single-track with 7.0 miles of mellow forest roads. The single-track that begi…
From the guidebook "Discover the White Mountains of New Hampshire"
North Conway , NH - Mountain Biking - 8.6 miles   
Published by Appalachian Mountain Club Books

#5. Pawtuckaway State Park

  
Symptoms of multiple-personality disorder show themselves on this ride. The early leg dishes out some fun technical challenges, but remains relatively tame. The challenge comes during the middle par…
From the guidebook "Mountain Bike America: New Hampshire & Maine"
Raymond , NH - Mountain Biking - 12.8 miles   
Published by The Globe Pequot Press

#6. Newfields-to-Manchester Rail-Trail

  
The Newfields-Manchester Rail-Trail offers the most casual way to explore Southern New Hampshire by mountain bike. You'll pass abandoned railroad stations that look about ready to fall in on themselv…
From the guidebook "Mountain Bike America: New Hampshire & Maine"
Manchester , NH - Mountain Biking - 26.3 miles   
Published by The Globe Pequot Press

#7. Foss Farm

  
Woodland paths and a heart-pumping singletrack trail cut by members of the University of New Hampshire mountain bike club give variety to the off-road offerings at Foss Farm. This short loop is good…
From the guidebook "Mountain Bike America: New Hampshire & Maine"
Durham , NH - Mountain Biking - 6.6 miles   
Published by The Globe Pequot Press

#8. Bear Brook State Park

  
This ride's general location is Allenstown. Scenery includes woodlands and wetlands. This is a good family ride; do not miss the park's museums. Located just a few miles from Concord, Bear Brook is…
From the guidebook "Mountain Bike! New Hampshire"
Allenstown , NH - Mountain Biking - 0 mile   
Published by Menasha Ridge Press

#9. Lincoln Woods Trail (The Wilderness Trail)

  
Riding through mixed forest, you get views of the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River and the White Mountains. The return side of this loop follows a section of the old East Branch and Lincoln loggi…
From the guidebook "Mountain Biking the White Mountains: West"
Lincoln , NH - Mountain Biking - 6.4 miles   
Published by Falcon Publishing

#10. Greenville Trail

  
This ride is located near Greenville and Mason. The Boston & Maine Railroad once blanketed New Hampshire with a web of branchlines. From the middle of the nineteenth century until around the 1930s o…
From the guidebook "Mountain Bike! New Hampshire"
Greenville , NH - Mountain Biking - 13 miles   
Published by Menasha Ridge Press

#11. Lincoln Woods Trail

  
This ride's general location is on the Kancamagus Highway (NH 112), east of Lincoln. Scenery includes Franconia Falls, just off the trail. This is a very popular trail. The old East Branch & Lincol…
From the guidebook "Mountain Bike! New Hampshire"
Lincoln , NH - Mountain Biking - 6.5 miles   
Published by Menasha Ridge Press

#12. North Conway, West of the Ledges Loop

  
This ride throws some very hard terrain at you, but still gives only a sampling of what the White Mountains have to offer. Utilizing fire roads and primitive singletrack full of rocks and roots, you'…
From the guidebook "Mountain Bike America: New Hampshire & Maine"
North Conway , NH - Mountain Biking - 12.4 miles   
Published by The Globe Pequot Press

#13. Franconia Notch Bicycle Path

  
Franconia Notch—home to Echo Lake, the Old Man of the Mountain, the Basin, and the Flume Gorge—is one of the main attractions of the White Mountains. The huge cliffs of Cannon Mountain and the high, a…
From the guidebook "Discover the White Mountains of New Hampshire"
Lincoln , NH - Mountain Biking - 18.4 miles   
Published by Appalachian Mountain Club Books

#14. I-89 Bike Path

  
This ride's general location is southwest of Concord. Scenery includes mixed fields and woods. This is a good family ride; do not miss the New Hampshire Audubon Center. A short paved bike path in t…
From the guidebook "Mountain Bike! New Hampshire"
Concord , NH - Mountain Biking - 2.4 miles   
Published by Menasha Ridge Press

#15. Beaver Brook

  
A ride through beautiful forests on old woods roads and exciting single-track. Beaver Brook is a small stream in Hollis that flows into the Nissitissit River near the Massachusetts border. The Beaver…
From the guidebook "Discover Southern New Hampshire"
Hollis , NH - Mountain Biking - 7.3 miles   
Published by Appalachian Mountain Club Books

#16. Rockingham Recreational Trail

  
Abandoned rail lines invite yet another opportunity for easy mountain biking through Southern New Hampshire, the countryside that for so long inspired the poet Robert Frost. Steel and wood bridges re…
From the guidebook "Mountain Bike America: New Hampshire & Maine"
Windham , NH - Mountain Biking - 19.4 miles   
Published by The Globe Pequot Press

#17. Boston Lot Lake

  
This ride's general location is Lebanon. Scenery includes semi-wooded area. The ride is convenient to Dartmouth and the interstates. New Hampshire's outpost of the Ivy League is, of course, Dartmou…
From the guidebook "Mountain Bike! New Hampshire"
Lebanon , NH - Mountain Biking - 5.5 miles   
Published by Menasha Ridge Press

#18. Loon Mountain

  
This ride's general location is Lincoln. Scenery is a blur. The first stop for serious downhillers, this is one scary mountain. At 2,100 feet, Loon Mountain has the most vertical drop of any resort…
From the guidebook "Mountain Bike! New Hampshire"
Lincoln , NH - Mountain Biking
Published by Menasha Ridge Press

#19. Hemenway State Forest

  
Hemenway State Forest offers a little extra seclusion in an area dominated by Lake Winnipesaukee to the south and the White Mountain National Forest to the north. Trails are wide and the challenges v…
From the guidebook "Mountain Bike America: New Hampshire & Maine"
Tamworth , NH - Mountain Biking - 7.5 miles   
Published by The Globe Pequot Press

#20. Sugar River Trail

  
An easy ride on a scenic, riverside rail-trail that visits two covered bridges. The Sugar River Trail is a 10-mile section of the Claremont-Concord Railroad that was abandoned in 1977, then turned int…
From the guidebook "Discover Southern New Hampshire"
Claremont , NH - Mountain Biking - 20 miles   
Published by Appalachian Mountain Club Books

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