Outdoors · Dunbarton

Dunbarton, NH parks, trails & bike paths

About 30% of Dunbarton is conserved land, roughly 6,046 acres. There are about 40 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Hopkinton-Everett Reservoir (7.7 mi), Kuncanowet Town Forest and Conservation Area (5.8 mi), and Kimball Pond Conservation Area (5.4 mi).

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

At a glance

Dunbarton outdoors

Conserved land
30%
6,046 of 19,925 acres
Trails
40 mi
1.3 mi per sq mi · 23 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
9
1,952 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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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

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

Hopkinton-Everett Reservoir

Managed by United States Army Corps of Engineers
1,362 acres7.7 mi of trail
Stark Pond LoopHang Glider Hill LoopSugar Hill LoopSuger Hill Loop
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Hopkinton-Everett Trails Area Website
2

Kuncanowet Town Forest and Conservation Area

Nature preserve
1,077 acres5.8 mi of trail
Gum Tree TrailMill Pond TrailLost Lake LoopHobblebush TrailPond View Loop
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Kimball Pond Conservation Area

Managed by Dunbarton Conservation Commission
1,112 acres5.4 mi of trail
Loop trailEast Side trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Dunbarton Town Forest - Kimball Pond

Managed by Town of Dunbarton
254 acres1.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
5

Kuncanowet Natural Area

Managed by Piscuataquog Land Conservancy
121 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 9 parks & preserves
  • Dunbarton Town Forest - Winslow Lot142 ac · 0.1 mi trail
  • Bela Brook Conservation Area295 ac
  • Natale & Willcox Brown Forest156 ac
  • Dunbarton Town Forest - Mansion Road Lot12 ac
Who protects the land

6,046 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other state land
1,723 ac
State natural resources
1,404 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
1,123 ac
Town or city
513 ac
Army Corps of Engineers
174 ac
Joint
21 ac
Not recorded
1,088 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 2,505 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 47 of 54 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

  • Tennis1
  • Baseball1

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

Next door

Dunbarton and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Dunbarton30.3%40.4 mi9
Bow20.9%80.4 mi21
Weare23.8%67.4 mi30
Goffstown16%95.2 mi18
Hopkinton27.5%58.0 mi23
Hooksett24.3%41.6 mi13
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Dunbarton'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 24.4-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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