If you’re looking for a challenging hiking route in Dover, New Hampshire, the Dover Community Trail is a great choice. It’s approximately 8 miles and generally takes about 3 hours to complete. This is a popular trail for cross-country skiing, fishing, hiking, and other activities. You can enjoy some solitude during quieter times of the day.
To find out more visit Dover.NH.Gov‘s official website. According to the City of Dover website, “The trail follows a former railroad bed through much of the City and will provide public access to protected greenways along the Cochecho and Bellamy Rivers.”
The 2000 Dover Master Plan recommended a community trail to provide both recreation and alternative transportation opportunities for Dover’s citizens.
The trail follows a former railroad bed through much of the City and will provide public access to protected greenways along the Cochecho and Bellamy Rivers.
The in-town section of the trail will provide a pedestrian and bicycle-friendly connection between downtown, (with a trailhead at the City’s Transportation Center) the Dover Middle and High School campuses and Bellamy Park.
Rural extensions of the trail will provide opportunities for bicycling, hiking, bird watching, and fishing where the trail follows the Cochecho and Bellamy Rivers. A portion of the trail runs parallel Sixth Street providing an alternative transportation linkage to other parts of town.
- Future Rutland Street Trailhead
- Urban Portion Phase II
- Silver Street Tunnel
- Urban Portion Phase I
- Transportation Center
- Urban Portion transition phase
- Downeast Energy Trailhead
- Rural Portion Transition
- Beckwith Park
- Dover Community Garden
- Rural Portion – Cochecho Conservation Area
- Whittier Falls Way connection
- Rural Trail Phase II
- Future Spaulding Turnpike Underpass
- Measured Progress/Liberty Mutual Portion of the Rural Trail
- Future Watson Road Trailhead
- Future Rural?
- Fisher to Central Avenue
- Education Connection
- Bellamy Park
- Bellamy Park
- Rural Phase IV
