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Hooper Forest
Managed by Town of Walpole
151 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Walpole
Walpole, NH parks, trails & bike paths
About 15% of Walpole is conserved land, roughly 3,567 acres. There are about 30 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Hooper Forest (0.7 mi), Fanny Mason Forest (0.6 mi), and Water Company Town Forest (0.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Walpole, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Walpole outdoors
Conserved land
15%
3,567 of 23,318 acres
Trails
30 mi
0.8 mi per sq mi · 7 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
22
967 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
Fanny Mason Forest
Managed by Town of Walpole
275 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Water Company Town Forest
Managed by Town of Walpole
112 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
High Blue Reservation
Managed by Society for the Prot. of NH Forests
218 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 22 parks & preserves
- Mill Pond Nature Sanctuary75 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Beatrice Graves Easement80 ac
- Great Brook Town Forest46 ac
- Walpole Reservoir Town Forest45 ac
- Hubbard Farms Wildlife Management Area38 ac
- Went Hubbard Park36 ac · Directions
- Trombley Town Forest29 ac
- Bertin Town Forest19 ac
- March Town Forest18 ac
- Academy Ravine14 ac
- Cranberry Meadow Nature Sanctuary12 ac
- Merriam Town Forest11 ac
- Great Island Wildlife Management Area9 ac
- Paap Wetland Conservation Area6 ac
- Frank W. Whitcomb Recreational Park4 ac
- Fall Mountain State Forest2 ac
- Drewsville Village Green2 ac
- Walpole Town Green1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
3,567 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 2,562 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 40 of 63 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
- Cheshire Recreational Rail Trail (bike route)3 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball4
- Tennis2
- Basketball1
- Pickleball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Walpole and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walpole | 15.3% | 29.8 mi | 22 |
| Westminster | 13.4% | 26.3 mi | 2 |
| Rockingham | 11% | 8.4 mi | 4 |
| Bellows Falls | 15% | 0.7 mi | 1 |
| Westmoreland | 9.4% | 52.8 mi | 4 |
| Langdon | 12.7% | 10.9 mi | 2 |
| Alstead | 6.2% | 28.0 mi | 4 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Walpole'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 24.7-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.