Distant Hill Nature Trail

Distant Hill Nature Trail Distant Hill Nature Trail includes two miles of wheelchair and stroller accessible trails and and an additional two miles of hiking trails.

We also have a 10-stop half-mile long Geology Trail along with a half-mile Story Walk® with a new book each month. Distant Hill Nature Trail is a network of gently sloping compacted gravel trails in Alstead and Walpole, NH. The five-foot wide wheelchair and stroller accessible trails wind through a hemlock/hardwood forest rich with many species of native wildflowers, shrubs, and trees and give ea

sy access to a number of unique wetland habitats including:

Five Vernal pools
A Black Ash Forest Seep
A floating Cranberry Bog/Fen with boardwalk

There is a fairy-house village and a play area for children, along with a Story Walk® for young children with a new book installed every month by the Walpole Town Library. There are more than a dozen large sitting-stones found along the trails for rest and contemplation. There is also a half-mile long Geology Trail that connects to the Nature Trail. Distant Hill Nature and Geology Trail are part of Distant Hill Gardens, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit environmental and horticultural learning center abutting the Nature and Geology Trails.

08/01/2026
Wi******er A.C.C.E.S.S. summer camp visited Distant Hill Nature Trail last week with two full busloads of campers. What ...
07/21/2026

Wi******er A.C.C.E.S.S. summer camp visited Distant Hill Nature Trail last week with two full busloads of campers. What an awesome group of kids! Judging from all the laughing and screaming, they had a great time.

This wildlife camera video was captured by Access Conservation on Distant Hill land, of two bear cubs following their mo...
07/12/2026

This wildlife camera video was captured by Access Conservation on Distant Hill land, of two bear cubs following their mom on Great Brook, July 8th of 2026. The last thirty seconds of the one-minute video is of an adult bear checking out the camera.

A wildlife camera video, captured by .Conservation on Distan...

🙏THANK YOU to everyone who donated to our nonprofit, Friends of Distant Hill, during NH Gives! Because of you, we won th...
06/11/2026

🙏THANK YOU to everyone who donated to our nonprofit, Friends of Distant Hill, during NH Gives! Because of you, we won the $2,000 third-place “Power of Many” prize for the number of donors to a small nonprofit. Every single donation mattered—we beat the fourth-place organization by just one donor!

🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the Power of Community Prizes for Small Organizations, sponsored by New Hampshire Charitable Foundation!

This special prize celebrates the impact of small but mighty nonprofits with operating budgets under $150,000.

🏆 First Prize – $5,000: Friends of Friends of Mascoma Foundation
🥈 Second Prize – $3,000: Windham Endowment
🥉 Third Prize – $2,000: Friends of Distant Hill Nature Trail

These awards go to the organizations in this budget category that received the highest number of unique online donors between 5 PM on June 9 and 5 PM on June 10.

👏 Congratulations again—and thank you for all the incredible work you do for our communities!

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66 March Hill Road
Alstead, NH
03602

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(603) 756-4179

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