January 14th 2022: Checking Out Buildings in Southern New Hampshire and Fitchburg

 Today, I decided to head north with everything covered in snow, checking out Fitchburg, 

Old Water Street Fire Station,
395 Water Street

Fitchburg Intermodal Transportation Center

New Ipswich NH,

Our Redeemer Lutheran Church

New Ipswich Congregational Church

Old Town Hall, 157 Main Street

Barrett House

Community Christian Church,
32 Main Street

War Memorial,
King Road and Academy Road

Old Appleton Academy

Wilton NH,

High Mowing School

Frye Field

Clinton Lodge #52 Masonic Temple

Town Hall

Wilton Public and Gregg Free Library

11 Forest Road

Second Congregational Church

and finally Milford NH,

Old Hillsborough Mills

Milford United Methodist Church

First Congregational Church

Bridge Community Baptist Church

checking out the Milford Fish Hatchery for a bit.

Pretty productive day within a four hour span.

May 16th 2020: Waterfalls in New Ipswich NH and Wilton NH

Today, we decided to go look for some waterfalls in New Hampshire. Our first waterfall was Kangas Falls in New Ipswich NH, found on the Furnace Brook Trail at ~411 Turnpike Road. From the road itself, one can already see the water fall from the top, but I ventured down on the trail, initially not finding the way to the falls, but eventually I backtracked to near the beginning where there was a side path to the falls, which is more a dam of sorts.

Next, it was off to Wilton NH, where we decided to look for the Batchelder Falls, located off King Brook Road at roughly 42.796568, -71.795592. One has to climb down a very steep hill in order to see the falls in their full splendor.

Definitely better than Kangas Falls, but hard to get to. I thought I would not be able to get back out onto the road.

Our next destination was the Heald Tract area nearby, where the path we took to get to Batchelder Pond on the Camp Trail is shown below in pink. 

Short, but decent views of the pond.

With that, we headed for home. A good day for checking out waterfalls.

April 11th 2017: Waterfalls in Wilton, NH

With the high temperatures today, we decided to venture out for our first hike in a long while, to look for the Garwin Falls, located within the town of Wilton NH.

Andy's Summer Playhouse

Old Baptist Church,
581 Isaac Frye Highway

First Unitarian Congregational Society

Souhegan River, Mill Street

We embarked on our journey at 805 Isaac Frye Highway, walking into the woods following the trail, taking a side trail to the first waterfall.

Further down the trail was the dam,

but the best part was to be even further downstream, as you can see.

Next, it was on to the Horseshoe Falls at 88 Burns Hill Road in town, which is more of a local swimming hole where people like to jump into the water, at an area with a series of rapids.

Next, we ventured into the town of Milford NH

N.H. Antique Co-op

Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Milford

to try to find the Tucker Brook Falls at the Tucker Brook Town Forest, but ended up venturing into the Tucker Brook North area, which is on the opposite side at 65 Whitten Road. By the time we realized our mistake, it was slowly getting dark, so we decided to end our waterfall search for the day, heading into the town center

Milford Oval,
Union Square and Elm Street

Odd Fellows' Hall,
49 Union Square 

Town Hall, 1 Union Square

for pizza at Foodee's,

where we got the half The Karnivour Pizza (Pepperoni, bacon, sweet & hot sausage, hamburg, meatballs, and 3–cheese blend) and half Reuben (Reuben sauce, corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, 3-cheese blend and sliced dills.),

and the half General Gao's Pizza (Spicy plum sauce, tender white chicken, roasted red peppers, 3-cheese blend, sesame seeds) and half Pesto Pizza (A delicate pesto sauce (basil, pine nuts, olive oil, garlic, and selected spices) topped with mozzarella, cheddar, and parmesan).

All the pizzas were pretty good, especially the Reuben, and my other half agreed as well. With that, we headed for home, grabbing more pizza from Sophia's Pizzeria in Townsend back in Massachusetts, namely the Veggie Pizza

and the Spicy Chicken Fra Diavolo Pizza.

Way too much veggies for the former for me, and a little too spicy for the latter. Foodee's is definitely much better, especially with half and half pizzas.