Tour de New Hampshire - Rockingham Rail Trail

This 28-mile, rustic out-and-back trail is rich in railroad structures left over from a time when the extensive Boston and Maine Railroad network flourished alongside New England's mill towns. The Rockingham Recreational Trail follows the Portsmouth Branch. Much of the trail stretches through hardwood forests and near standing water bodies and bogs. The rail bed rises above the forest floor in some places, while other stretches run through high-walled cuts blasted through New Hampshire's famous granite during the railroad's construction.

Please register with the Bike Walk Alliance of NH

https://bwanh.org/tour-2025/

This route starts at the Newfields Trailhead and heads west to the Raymond Historical Society, located in the Raymond Depot building. The Raymond Depot was built in 1893. There, we will see four pieces of rolling stock: a 1932 Whitcomb Engine, a 1932 Caboose, a 1953 Refrigerator Box Car, and a 1944 Push Car. This site also has a B&M trackside building, an Observation Building, a tool museum, and a one-room schoolhouse.