1
Kearsarge Wildlife Management Area
Managed by NH Fish & Game
1,041 acres1.8 mi of trail
Barlow Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Andover
Andover, NH parks, trails & bike paths
About 26% of Andover is conserved land, roughly 6,780 acres. There are about 49 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Kearsarge WMA (1.8 mi), Mount Kearsarge State Forest (0.8 mi), and Ragged Mountain State Forest (0.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Andover, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Andover outdoors
Conserved land
26%
6,780 of 26,110 acres
Trails
49 mi
1.2 mi per sq mi · 14 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
11
3,176 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
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.
2
Mount Kearsarge State Forest
Managed by New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands
220 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Ragged Mountain State Forest
Managed by New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development
72 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Elliot and Catherine Reiner Woodland Conservancy
Managed by Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
215 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
5
Roby Preserve
Managed by Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust
48 acres0.4 mi of trail
Northern Rail Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 11 parks & preserves
- Mountain Brook Forest Preserve233 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Carr Field14 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Lawrence W. and Caroline B. Robie Forest68 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Old College Road Preserve56 ac
- McLeod Preserve26 ac
- Chaffee Park6 ac
Who protects the land
6,780 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 3,334 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 34 of 43 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
- Northern Rail Trail (bike route)11 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis10
- Soccer6
- Baseball6
- Volleyball1
- Football1
- Basketball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Andover and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Andover'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 28.5-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.