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Escape to the White Mountains during the warm month of August.
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Barbara Radcliffe Rogers is New Hampshire Magazine‘s regular “Our Town” writer. She is a travel and food writer specializing in her native New Hampshire, the northeastern United States and southern Europe. Along with frequent articles for Planetware, WhereverFamily, BellaOnline and Global Traveler magazine, she is the co-author of more than 30 travel guidebooks, including the “2019 Frommer’s Guide to New England.” Barbara especially enjoys sharing active travel experiences.
Escape to the White Mountains during the warm month of August.
For leaf peeping, it's hard to find a more perfect setting than the tidy villages and lakes to reflect the colors in the Monadnock Region. And it's the best time of year to climb that iconic mountain.
It's a little early for serious leaf-peeping, but reds and golds are beginning to highlight the roadsides in the White Mountains, so we chose a base right in the middle of them.
Loons, eagles and moose lure us north of the White Mountains to a wilderness-surrounded lake that NH shares with Maine.
Summer is almost here, and it's time to head north with the girls (ages 11 and 8) to walk our favorite trails in the White Mountains.
What do garlic, coffee, kielbasa, maple cream and corn pudding have in common? We might not want them all in one dish, but we found them all in one weekend in Canterbury.
What do garlic, coffee, kielbasa, maple cream and corn pudding have in common?
My husband and I grew up in Dover, but Mary had never explored our childhood haunts. At just 11, she was old enough to be welcome in a beautiful inn, but still young enough to like the Yellow Submarine.
March invites us to combine three of our favorite seasonal pleasures - skiing, a cozy country inn and maple sugaring, all of which we find in The Only Henniker on Earth.
We wanted a romantic Valentine getaway without any driving, so Keene's compact downtown, laid-back but filled with diversions even in mid-winter, was the natural choice.
January is the perfect month to head to North Conway, where the American passion for skiing began.
Step back a couple of centuries for Strawbery Banke's Candlelight Stroll during a weekend of shopping at Vintage Christmas in Portsmouth.
The charms of a river valley in full fall color. Leaf peeping and squirrel-like instincts take us to the lower Connecticut Valley for apples, wine, cheese - and thousands of grinning pumpkins. Friday Evening We arrived in Walpole in time…
Take your Valentine on a romantic ride through the state’s “Currier & Ives Corner,” beginning at a chocolatier in Keene.