Travel Information for New Hampshire Hotel Guests
If you are searching for an inn, hotel, motel or resort near a New Hampshire attraction, amusement and theme parks, or close to shopping, cultural events, historic sites, museums and performing arts centers, or nearby zoos, a festival, a golf course, a New Hampshire state park, this is where you will find it.
From the seacoast to the soaring peaks of the highest mountains in the northeast, NEW HAMPSHIRE is a vacation destination that offers plenty of opportunity for sport and play – and the state is small enough to crisscross in a day, with activities to suit everyone’s tastes. A mountain, a lake, a city, a forested wilderness, an ocean – they’re all within easy reach. Besides swimming, biking, hiking, camping and other outdoor adventures, there are dozens of activities the kids will enjoy: water parks, family-size amusement parks, petting zoos and working farms, museums and historic sites.
And New Hampshire’s famous tax-free shopping makes the state a bargain-hunter’s haven. In the White Mountains, BRETTON WOODS attractions include the Lawrence L. Lee Scouting Museum & Max I. Silber Library, and Mount Washington Cog Railway, the world's first mountain-climbing railway; at the top of Mt. Washington is the Mount Washington Observatory Weather Discovery Center; south of Bretton Woods at North Conway, Mount Washington Valley and the Conway Scenic Railroad offers three tours.
At CHARLESTOWN In the west of the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee region region, Fort at No. 4 Living History Museum brings to life the history of the Connecticut River Valley during the 1740s and 1750s.
COLEBROOK is the starting place to reach the headwaters of the Connecticut River and the 15,000 acre The Balsams resort where the Dixville Notch “Ballot Room” is located.
The state legislature meets in CONCORD in the oldest continuously-operating State House in the country while the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium celebrates the NH schoolteacher who became the first civilian astronaut' among the capital’s other attractions is the Museum of New Hampshire History and the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium.
East of Concord at ALLENSTOWN, the Museum Complex at Bear Brook State Park features museums of Family Camping, Civilian Conservation Corps, Old Allenstown Meetinghouse and snowmobiles.
To the north of Concord at CANTERBURY is the Shaker Village which provides an introduction to the customs, inventions, furniture, architecture and values of this utopian society.
CORNISH is the inspiration for luminist painter Maxfield Parrish, sculptor Augustus Saint Gaudens and other members of the Cornish Art Colony.
Some 17 covered bridges characterize the river run of the DARTMOUTH/SUNAPEE region along the Connecticut River western border of the state from the midpoint of Hanover, home of Dartmouth College to North Walpole; summer and winter recreation options include the annual League of New Hampshire Craftsmen's Fair.
The white steepled village DUBLIN is home to Yankee magazine and the Old Farmer's Almanac.
Franconia Notch State Park just south of LITTLETON is New Hampshire’s flagship park; the Old Man of the Mountain, that once perched 1,2000 feet up the slide of a cliff, collapsed in May 2003. "He" remains a symbol of New Hampshire and is now celebrated and remembered in a roadside museum; other attractions include the Flume Gorge and an aerial tramway that ascends 4,180-foot Cannon Mountain. Ruggles Mine:
The Mine in the Sky at GRAFTON is mostly an open pit mine but there are giant rooms and tunnels with arched ceilings to explore.
Nearby at ENFIELD is a Shaker Village where visitors can view 13 Shaker buildings on a self-guided tour.
Characterized by rugged and knowledgeable fly-fishing, hunting and hiking guides, much of the GREAT NORTH WOODS region is open for recreational use, including the largest snowmobile trail system in the Northeast (part of the state's 6,000 mile network of snowmobile trails.) HILLSBOROUGH is the birthplace of Franklin Pierce - 14th President of the US.
The Wildcat Mountain ski area of JACKSON in the White Mountains is renowned for its harsh weather and award-winning trails.
Two fun attractions in JEFFERSON are Santa’s Village, an amusement park with a Christmas theme, and Six Gun City & Fort Splash Water Park where visitors help the Sheriff catch outlaws.
KEENE is a classic New England college town, named one of the National Trust's Distinctive Destinations.
LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, 72 sq. miles, is the most popular and largest lake in the state, with vacation destinations such as Weirs Beach and Wolfeboro, and attractions including the MS Mount Washington.
At Christies' Maple Farm & Maple Museum in LANCASTER in the shadows of the White Mountains visitors learn how to make maple syrup; the New Hampshire Heritage Trail goes through John Wingate Weeks Historic Site.
Among the attractions in LINCOLN are Clark's Trading Post which has trained North American Black Bears, antique Americana and steam trains, the Hobo Railroad which takes visitors on a scenic 15-mile excursion along the Pemi River, Loon Mountain, a gondola skyride which whisks visitors to the summit to glacial caves, and Whale's Tale Water Park.
In NORTH WOODSTOCK visitors can tour the Lost River Gorge on boardwalks, following the river among glacially scattered boulders.
The New Hampshire International Speedway at LOUDON is the only NASCAR Nextel Cup venue in the Northeast.
Performing and fine arts balance commerce in MANCHESTER: the Currier Museum of Art and Frank Lloyd Wright Zimmerman House complement the fastest growing airport in the US.
Attractions in MEREDITH include the Annalee Doll Society & Museum, and the Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad which travels between Meredith and Weirs Beach.
MERRIMACK VALLEY, the commercial and governmental heart of New Hampshire for 300 years: Industry grew on the rapids of the Merrimack River where Victorian brick mill buildings still line the banks, now housing a mix of high tech and craftsmen.
The MONADNOCK region Incorporates Mount Monadnock, America's friendly "most climbed mountain".
The historic Castle Springs, MOULTONBOROUGH, is the home of “Castle in the Clouds” which has a wide range of activities: the estate encompasses more than 5,200 acres of the Ossipee Mountains.
Just north of Moultonborough is TAMWORTH where the Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm showcases 200 years of farming history.
There are three Historic Sites at NEW CASTLE: Fort Constitution, Fort Stark and Wentworth By the Sea Hotel which hosted the Russian and Japanese delegates to the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth peace conference; President Teddy Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for arranging these talks ending the bloody Russo-Japanese War. The New Hampshire Connecticut Lakes is a pristine region at the tip of New Hampshire offering unspoiled wilderness; it is the center of the North Country’s fishing and hunting.
NORTH SALEM, America's Stonehenge, is a lithic site which consists of stone chambers, dry-stone walls, underground passageways, standing stones, alignments and inscriptions.
PETERBOROUGH was the inspiration for Thornton Wilder's “Our Town”.
PLYMOUTH's Polar Caves Park are glacial caves in the woodland settings of Glacial Rock Garden.
A 20 minute drive south from downtown Plymouth, Squam Lakes Natural Science Center at HOLDERNESS provides an opportunity to see wildlife close up.
A bit further south, ASHLAND is the location for Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park campsite and resort.
PORTSMOUTH was the first settlement in New Hampshire in 1623; among the attractions are the Harbor Trail which passes more than 70 points of scenic and historic significance, the Children's Museum, Strawbery Banke Museum, showcasing 400 years of New Hampshire history, and Water Country, the largest waterpark in New England; at the Port of Portsmouth Maritime Museum & Albacore Park visitors tour the submarine which was the basis for today's nuclear submarines; also of interest are the Colonial houses of Portsmouth, two which are maintained by Historic New England (formerly the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities); two more are National Historic Landmarks, including the Wentworth Gardner House. To the south of Portsmouth is Hampton Beach and Exeter where history is alive and fun at the American Independence Museum.
SEACOAST is 18 miles of coastline with everything from the Casino and Boardwalk of Hampton Beach and 4 more sandy state beaches, to the working port and lobster shacks of Portsmouth, the historic taproot of New Hampshire.
SQUAM LAKE, the original "Golden Pond", is home to nesting loons.
The Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, Education and Cultural Center in WARNER showcases Native American history and culture, including jewelry, fine art and crafts.
WHITE MOUNTAINS, the mother lode for Ski New Hampshire, incorporates the 800,000 acre White Mountain National Forest and the 12-peak Presidential Range.
The New Hampshire Antique & Classic Boat Museum at WOLFEBORO preserves "the heritage of the Lakes Region"; The Wright Museum is one of the largest collections from Home Front America during the 1939-1945 War Years.
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