Outdoors · Hill

Hill, NH parks, trails & bike paths

About 28% of Hill is conserved land, roughly 4,749 acres. There are about 34 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Page Hill Conservation Area (9.5 mi), Franklin Falls Reservoir (5.8 mi), and Glory Hill Conservation Area (2.1 mi).

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

At a glance

Hill outdoors

Conserved land
28%
4,749 of 17,001 acres
Trails
34 mi
1.3 mi per sq mi · 14 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
7
named on the map
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

Page Hill Conservation Area

Managed by Lakes Region Conservation Trust
400 acres9.5 mi of trail
Bug OutThe Dude AbidesHydraSpringShock Therapy
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Franklin Falls Reservoir

Managed by United States Army Corps of Engineers
621 acres5.8 mi of trail
Old Route 3A
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Glory Hill Conservation Area

Managed by Lakes Region Conservation Trust
84 acres2.1 mi of trail
M.T.T. (CLOSED , DO NOT USE)Bear ClawHydra
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Wade State Forest

Managed by NH Dept of Resources & Econ Dev
426 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
5

William H. Thomas State Forest

Managed by NH Dept. of Resources & Economic Dev.
1,671 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 7 parks & preserves
  • Victor's Woods50 ac
  • Danbury Bog Wildlife Management Area6 ac
Who protects the land

4,749 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
1,393 ac
State natural resources
635 ac
Not recorded
2,720 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,394 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 19 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

  • Baseball1

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

Next door

Hill and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Hill27.9%34.4 mi7
Bristol5.3%11.4 mi8
Alexandria16.9%54.1 mi12
New Hampton12.2%25.6 mi13
Sanbornton13.3%47.9 mi6
Danbury11.2%28.7 mi5
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Hill'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 21.9-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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