Things to Do

Wicked Wine and Brewfest

Wicked Wine and Brew Fest is a unique tasting event featuring New Hampshire and New England wineries and breweries. Local musicians, artisans and vendors will also be on hand to celebrate the beautiful fall day. Local celeb musician Josh Logan…

The Ring of Fire

Living life amidst long-ago creation.Time is a crucible. So is life. So is the fragile, shifting, cracking tectonic egg shell of our earth. And so is its molten, bubbling yolk, sometimes erupting through cracks in the shell as volcanoes, sometimes…

Between Seasons

Clear horizons and budget rates in Waterville Valley. New Hampshire's hybrid season falls between the foliage and the snow. In the few weeks after the leaf peepers have headed south and before the skiers come north, resort communities like Waterville…

Spring Things

From ice cream cones to country stores ...May is a good month to play in the Lakes Region, before the summer beach traffic and just as places are opening for the season. It’s a good time to stretch our legs…

Water Way

Enjoying nature from the quiet and calm of a canoe. A canoe is a passport to the beauty found along New Hampshire's lakes, rivers, estuaries, streams and ponds. There is the energetic rush associated with flowing whitewater and the calm…

Head South

Get your kicks on Route 125.Route 125 is better known as the Calef Highway, named for Sen. Austin Calef whose mother founded the iconic Barrington general store. But it actually starts farther north, in Union.Begin at Exit 18, the northernmost…

The Jumper Classic

The annual Jumper Classic is back, and will take place in Hampton Falls from September 15 to 19. Each day features different jumping events, with the five-day event culminating in the $75,000 Fidelity Investments Grand Prix. Top riders, including former…

The People's Party

People Fest is more than just a good time.Manchester is the state's most globally diverse city, with 60 languages spoken in Central High School. Historical ethnic groups like the French and the Greeks have been joined by recent influxes of…

Icecapades

It is one of the most distinctive sounds of wintertime: the smooth scrape of metal blades on ice.For anyone who has skated, that sound recalls the movement of flexing, leaning, digging first one blade edge into the ice to push…