Outdoors · Alstead

Alstead, NH parks, trails & bike paths

About 6.2% of Alstead is conserved land, roughly 1,565 acres. There are about 28 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Vilas Pool Park (0.8 mi).

Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Alstead, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

At a glance

Alstead outdoors

Conserved land
6.2%
1,565 of 25,052 acres
Trails
28 mi
0.7 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
1,009 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 mi off-road paths

Conserved land is a share of the whole town area. Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

Map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

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Tap a number or a place below to zoom in© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Vilas Pool Park

Managed by Town of Alstead
37 acres0.8 mi of trail
Cold River TrailRock River Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Alstead Conservation Land

Managed by Alstead Conservation Commission
295 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Feuer State Forest

Managed by NH Dept of Resources & Econ Dev
3 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Paper Mill Village Park

Managed by Town of Alstead
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

1,565 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
1,089 ac
Other state land
273 ac
Town or city
76 ac
Not recorded
126 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,139 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 18 of 21 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Soccer1
  • Baseball1

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Next door

Alstead and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Alstead6.2%28.0 mi4
Gilsum29.6%22.3 mi7
Marlow13.8%28.2 mi7
Langdon12.7%10.9 mi2
Walpole15.3%29.8 mi22
Surry23.1%24.5 mi4
Acworth15.7%54.9 mi5
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Alstead's trails yet. Muddy, icy, a bridge out, where to park: a quick post helps the next person.

Sources: trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US). Measured against the Census town boundary.

How we measure"Trails" are OpenStreetMap paths, bridleways, public tracks and unpaved footways, plus footways inside a park or preserve or on a named trail route. Sidewalks are left out. Areas are counted on a 22.8-meter grid, so overlapping parcels count once. "Conserved" includes conservation easements, which protect land from development but are usually private property. Trailheads are the nearest marked trailhead, public parking lot or information board within about 150 meters of a preserve. Dog rules come from OpenStreetMap when someone has tagged them; otherwise we show what's typical for the land manager, or say the rules aren't recorded.

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