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Published: 6/9/2021 4:13:10 PM
Miller State Park’s auto road is scheduled to reopen on June 11, heralding the completion of a number of major improvements to the park.
The 1.3-mile paved road connecting Route 101 to the summit of Pack Monadnock is a popular walking spot for locals and visitors. Over the past three years, local park users have been working with the DNCR, Eversource, and other state interests to devise a beautification plan for the park, to deploy in tandem with necessary upgrades to the utility lines that extend up the mountain.
Work started in April. Eversource removed some existing poles along the road, buried lines underground at the summit, and rerouted their lines to a visually inconspicuous path through the woods. “All line construction was completed on May 20th and it is energized and in service,” an Eversource representative wrote on Monday. The Auto Road was able to open to the public on weekends before closing this week
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 5/24/2021 3:25:59 PM
It took 10 years for Phil Mathewson to design his Hancock home, and more than two decades later, there isn’t a single thing he would change about it.
After purchasing the property in 1990, it wasn’t until 2000 that the almost 5,200-square-foot timberpeg post and beam home was built on 109 acres of land that just so happens to be completely surrounded by the 36,000 acres of connected, protected land in the Monadnock region that is known as the Harris Center’s Super Sanctuary.
“I believe we hold the longest record of a home design,” Mathewson said. “It was a long process, but wanted to do it right.”
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Published: 12/28/2020 4:59:47 PM
Several local favorite hiking and swimming spots remain closed this winter, after towns shut them down as visitors – often from out of state – flooded in when quarantine hit, cluttering town roadways, leaving behind trash, and causing overcrowding.
State parks remain open, including popular hiking spots including Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey and Pack Monadnock in Peterborough. However, precautions to prevent overcrowding remain in place even now, in the off-season.
Monadnock State Park, which includes trail entrances to Mount Monadnock, has implemented a reservation system with a limited number of parking spots, a system put in place this summer due to demand. Those who do not make a reservation prior to their arrival can be turned away. The same system is in place at Miller State Park, at the foot of Pack Monadnock.