Fuller Gardens in North Hampton, New Hampshire, is a public botanical garden on the seacoast created in 1927 by Massachusetts Governor Alvan T. Fuller as part of his summer estate Runnymede-by-the-Sea, initially designed by landscape architect Arthur A. Shurtleff and later enhanced in the 1930s by the Olmsted Brothers firm with formal rose gardens honoring his wife Viola.
Hannah Duston Memorial Historic Site in Boscawen, New Hampshire, features a striking 35-foot granite statue erected in 1874—the first publicly funded statue in the state—depicting colonist Hannah Duston holding a tomahawk and scalps on a small island at the Contoocook and Merrimack Rivers' confluence.
North Hampton State Beach is a compact 1.1-acre state park on the Atlantic Ocean in North Hampton, New Hampshire, featuring a sandy stretch ideal for family swimming and picnicking.
Mount Washington State Park encompasses 60.3 acres at the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire's highest peak at 6,288 feet in the White Mountain National Forest, renowned for extreme weather including record winds.
Milan Hill State Park is a 102-acre hilltop retreat on New Hampshire Route 110B in Milan, ten miles north of Berlin at 1,729 feet elevation, offering sweeping 360-degree views of mountain ranges across New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, and Canada from its iconic 1932 fire tower.
Woodstock Inn Brewery in North Woodstock, New Hampshire, is a family-owned inn and restaurant that opened in 1982 and began brewing its own craft beer in 1995.
Nansen Ski Jump State Historic Site in Milan, New Hampshire, preserves the Big Nansen, a towering 170-foot steel ski jump built in 1936 by the Nansen Ski Club—America's oldest continuously operating ski club founded by Norwegian immigrants in 1872.
The Flume in Franconia Notch State Park, New Hampshire, is a stunning natural granite gorge extending 800 feet long at the base of Mount Liberty, with moss-covered Conway granite walls rising 70 to 90 feet high and narrowing to just 12 to 20 feet apart, carved over millions of years by Flume Brook, glacial action, and erosion.
Umbagog Lake State Park covers 1,360 acres on the southern shore of Umbagog Lake in Errol, New Hampshire, adjacent to the Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge along the Maine border.
Seacoast Science Center in Rye, New Hampshire, is a nonprofit marine science museum located within Odiorne Point State Park, offering interactive exhibits, touch tanks with sea stars and crabs, aquariums featuring Gulf of Maine creatures, and programs on ocean conservation since opening in 1992.
Weeks State Park spans 446 acres atop Mount Prospect in Lancaster, New Hampshire, encompassing the historic Weeks Estate built in 1912 for John Wingate Weeks, a key conservationist, U.S. senator, and Secretary of War.
Franconia Notch State Park in New Hampshire is a scenic mountain pass nestled within the White Mountain National Forest, stretching about eight miles along Interstate 93.
Mount Monadnock, located in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, rises to 3,165 feet, making it the most prominent peak in southern New Hampshire and nearly 1,000 feet taller than any other mountain within 30 miles.
Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse in New Castle, New Hampshire, within Fort Constitution, is New Hampshire's oldest lighthouse, first established in 1771 as a shingled wooden tower with oil lamps—the 10th built before the American Revolution and the first north of Boston—marking the entrance to Portsmouth Harbor.
Tours of Zimmerman and Kalil Houses in Manchester, New Hampshire, offered by the Currier Museum of Art, provide access to two rare Frank Lloyd Wright-designed homes on Heather Street: the 1950 Zimmerman House, a Usonian-style residence with cypress wood, brick, and panoramic windows, and the 1955-57 Kalil House, one of only seven Usonian Automatic homes ever built using modular concrete blocks.
Attitash Mountain Resort in Bartlett, New Hampshire, spans two connected peaks—Attitash and Bear Peak—with 76 trails across 311 skiable acres, a 1,750-foot vertical drop, and 98% snowmaking coverage for skiing, snowboarding, and terrain parks suitable for all abilities from beginners to experts.
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park in Cornish, New Hampshire, preserves the home, studios, gardens, and artwork of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, a prominent American sculptor of the late 19th century.
Otter Brook Lake is a 90-acre flood control reservoir managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers straddling Keene and Roxbury in southwestern New Hampshire, offering diverse outdoor recreation amid 458 acres of mixed forest, wetlands, and open fields.