Newmarket

A 30-acre wildlife sanctuary on the Lamprey River with a 1.2-mile boardwalk loop trail featuring a cliff walk, viewing platforms, and a small waterfall. The trail offers sweeping views of the historic Newmarket Mills and Lamprey River flowing toward Great Bay. Rarely crowded — one of the quietest nature walks on the Seacoast.

A tiny 0.4-acre waterfront park that preserves a traditional Native American fish weir on the Lamprey River, based on techniques used by the Squamscot and Wampanoag tribes for centuries. The weir is still visible from the park, and the site has witnessed indigenous fishing, colonial shipbuilding, and industrial millworks.

A pedestrian bridge over the Lamprey River providing an up-close view of the historic Macallen Dam, its large spillway, and a working fish ladder for reintroducing herring, shad, and salmon. Tucked behind the converted mill buildings at Penstock Way — most visitors to downtown walk right past it without knowing it exists.

A legendary live music venue housed in an 1832 stone Universalist meeting house atop Zion's Hill. The building has lived extraordinary lives — Unitarian church, Catholic church, French-language school, roller-skating rink, shoe factory, and post-fire ruin — before becoming one of NH's most beloved small venues. The granite walls create acoustics unlike any other room on the Seacoast.

A 493-acre conservation corridor with 3.4 miles of trails through open fields, mature forests, wetlands, and ponds. This land nearly became a 102-unit subdivision in 2005 before conservation groups intervened. It now links protected land in Newmarket and Exeter forming part of a 4,000+ acre connected greenway — one of the largest unfragmented conservation areas on the Seacoast.