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Backpacking Trails in New Hampshire
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Backpacking Trails in New Hampshire

27
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7 - 31 mi
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New Hampshire has 27 backpacking trails. These trails range from 7.6 to 31.4 miles in length. The most popular trails are Hut to Hut Presidential Traverse, Pemigewasset Wilderness Trail and The Kilkenny. Trails.com member K Q. recently completed The Kilkenny.
Best Trails in New Hampshire
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Mount Cabot - Unknown Pond Loop Trail
Berlin, NH
4
The Mount Cabot-Unknown Pond Loop is actually three possible hikes in one. Besides the ...
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Hut to Hut Presidential Traverse
Gorham, NH
2
Hiking the Presidential Range from end to end is one of the United States’ classic treks. ...
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Hut to Hut Presidential Traverse
Gorham, NH
1
Hiking the Presidential Range from end to end is one of the United States’ classic treks. ...
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Pemigewasset Wilderness Trail
Lincoln, NH
1
With many roads dissecting the White Mountains, there are few areas where one can go and ...
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Mount Moosilauke
Holderness, NH
1
Mount Moosilauke is the westernmost massif of the White Mountains. Isolated from adjoining ...
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Sandwich Range Wilderness-Western Loop
Holderness, NH
1
For more than 25 miles, no road crosses the Sandwich Range’s rugged spine on the southern ...
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Franconia, Cannon Mountain, & Franconia Notch, NH
Franconia, NH
1
In the Franconia area you'll find the Cannon Mountain Aerial Tramway. Ride up to the summit, ...
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Attitash Bear Peak, Bretton Woods, & Mount Washington, NH
Bretton Woods, NH
1
Attitash Bear Peak is the largest ski resort in New Hampshire, with a vertical drop of ...
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Peterborough, Jaffrey/Rindge, Mount Monadnock, & Dublin, NH
Jaffrey, NH
0
Hikers, we’re coming to you. Like skiing in Tuckerman’s Ravine on Mount Washington, climbing ...
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Pemigewasset Wilderness-Eastern Loop
Lincoln, NH
0
Soaring open summits, rushing waterways, and long easy-cruising sections of trail—this ...
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Montalban Ridge
Conway, NH
0
Montalban Ridge runs due south from Mount Washington for 15 miles. The Davis Path traverses ...
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The Southern Presidentials
Conway, NH
0
The Southern Presidential Range leads from Crawford Notch north to the highest point in ...
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Pemigewasset Wilderness
Lincoln, NH
0
While beautiful, there are few places in the White Mountains where modern civilization ...
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North Conway, Jackson, Pinkham Notch, & Great Glen, NH
North Conway, NH
0
You can make a circuit of the White Mountains in a variety of ways, stopping to ski or ...
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Mount Cabot- Unknown Pond Loop
Berlin, NH
0
A long climb through prime moose habitat to the top of the northernmost 4,000-footer in ...
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Wild River Wilderness
Gorham, NH
0
This Wilderness protects a broad watershed in the eastern White Mountain National Forest. ...
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Mahoosuc Notch
Berlin, NH
0
Many Appalachian Trail (AT) thru-hikers consider the 27-mile traverse of the Mahoosuc ...
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Kinsman Notch, Loon Mountain, & Waterville Valley, NH
Waterville Valley, NH
0
Another well-established New Hampshire destination in the White Mountains is Waterville ...
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Hillsborough and Antrim/Hancock, NH
Hillsborough, NH
0
Apart from the brief coastal plain, so much of New Hampshire is mountainous that small ...
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Wolfeboro, Weirs Beach, Meredith, & Center Harbor, NH
Meredith, NH
0
Lake Winnipesaukee is New Hampshire’s largest lake, covering 72 square miles and 183 miles ...
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Bondcliff–Zeacliff Traverse
Lincoln, NH
0
A two-night backpacking trip that crosses through the heart of the Pemi, passing over ...
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The Kilkenny
Gorham, NH
0
A mountain range in miniature, the Pilot Range rises above the Great North Woods of northern ...
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Sandwich Range Wilderness - Eastern Loop
Holderness, NH
0
Tucked deep within a seldom-trod portion of the Sandwich Range Wilderness, hemmed between ...
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Wapack Trail
Miller State Park, NH
0
Wapack Trail is a hiking trail in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. It is within Mount ...
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Lake Sunapee Region and Hanover, NH
Hanover, NH
0
The conjunction of lake and mountain have made Lake Sunapee a favorite vacation area since ...
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