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Manchester Waterworks
Managed by City of Manchester
1,116 acres9.8 mi of trail
Fire Road 794milerFire Road 80Fire Road 82Fire Road 77
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Candia
Candia, NH parks, trails & bike paths
About 16% of Candia is conserved land, roughly 3,148 acres. There are about 25 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Manchester Waterworks (9.8 mi) and Bear Brook State Park (1.9 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Candia, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Candia outdoors
Conserved land
16%
3,148 of 19,437 acres
Trails
25 mi
0.8 mi per sq mi · 12 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
12
761 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.8 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 4.8 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
Bear Brook State Park
Nature preserve
294 acres1.9 mi of trail
Hall Mountain TrailHall Mountain Marsh TrailHall MountainLynx Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
3
Emerson's Mill & Patten's Mill Sites
Park
17 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Natt W. Emerson Tract
Managed by Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
66 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 12 parks & preserves
- Deerfield Road Town Forest107 ac
- Abe Emerson Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary107 ac
- Fordway Brook Preserve105 ac
- Flint Road Town Forest63 ac
- Hemlock Drive Town Forest63 ac
- Dennis Lewis Town Forest44 ac
- Clay Pond Headwaters Conservation Area9 ac
- Candia Town Pond and Natural Area3 ac
Who protects the land
3,148 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 892 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 29 of 36 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 paths4.8 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball7
- Soccer2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Candia and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Candia'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 22.3-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.