A travel management plan that forest officials implemented in 2012 closed the area to winter motorized use, putting an end to legal use of motorized over-snow travel.
It has been a rough winter season for many outdoor activities in New Hampshire, but a below-average snowpack is hitting the snowmobile industry especially hard.
Recent snowfall has allowed snowmobile trails to open, but earlier this season, many of the trails were closed because of a lack of snow, a concern for an indus.
A Penobscot man suffered life-threatening injuries Wednesday night after he was ejected from a snowmobile off Bayview Road in Penobscot, said Hancock County Sheriff’s deputies.
Kaye Heins, 66, of Sartell, was injured Saturday in snowmobile crash in Brockway Township near St. Stephen. She was transported to CentraCare St. Cloud Hospital for treatment.