1
Nash Stream Forest
Nature preserve
5,639 acres16.1 mi of trail
Cohos TrailOld Summer Club TrailLamphere Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Stark
Stark, NH parks, trails & bike paths
About 63% of Stark is conserved land, roughly 23,898 acres. There are about 34 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Nash Stream Forest (16.1 mi) and Kauffmann Forest (1.9 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Stark, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Stark outdoors
Conserved land
63%
23,898 of 37,982 acres
Trails
34 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi · 27 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
9
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
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
Kauffmann Forest
Managed by Society for the Prot. of NH Forests
1,866 acres1.9 mi of trail
Lamphere TrailDevils Slide Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Lost Nation Preserve
Managed by Legacy Forest Trust
545 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Devil's Slide State Forest
Managed by New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands
294 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 9 parks & preserves
- South Ponds Recreation Area9 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Northumberland Watershed Forest130 ac
- Upper Ammonoosuc River Wildlife Management Area97 ac
- Percy State Forest78 ac
- Ammonoosuc River State Forest9 ac
Who protects the land
23,898 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 7,115 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 25 of 35 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
Next door
Stark and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stark | 62.9% | 33.6 mi | 9 |
| Northumberland | 21.7% | 11.6 mi | 7 |
| Dummer | 6% | 37.0 mi | 3 |
| Milan | 22.7% | 27.7 mi | 5 |
| Stratford | 48.7% | 110.6 mi | 8 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Stark'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 29.6-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.