Bike the North country is a collaborative community network of the tritown area of Bethlehem, Littleton and Franconia including 100 miles of great trails to experience.
The Bethlehem Trails Association is a group of Bethlehem residents and outdoor enthusiasts who one day realized they had been privately sharing the same vision: a fantastic network of trails spinning through our small mountain community.
Once we stumbled upon this dream together, it was just too good to let it go.
Too impossible to consider life without BTA being fully realized. So here we are!
We now have almost 20 miles of fantastic trails for beginners and advanced riders alike.
PRKR’s success is rooted in community partnerships. We do not charge any fee for use of the trail network, staying true to our mission of truly community-based trails. We are very aware of the benefit our trail network can bring to local merchants and small businesses and we actively seek to partner with those organizations whose mission and motivations match our own. Beyond fundraising, PRKR regularly participates in community events, uses its social media presence to promote and celebrate the community where we are located.
Growing Littleton as a community, that truly represents a place where people want to live and work, is a central component to our philosophy. These trails bring out the best in people and highlight what it means live a North Country lifestyle in New Hampshire.
Franconia Area NEMBA was founded in 2015 to help steward, promote and improve the extensive network of trails in the Ammonoosuc Valley, which run north and west of Franconia Notch. The Ammonoosuc Valley extending from Bretton Woods to the Connecticut River offers extensive riding opportunities with gentle terrain in the valleys and challenging singletracks in the hills with stunning vistas along the way.
The Profile Trails Network includes the trails in the Franconia Easton Sugar Hill region with connections planned to neighboring towns of Bethlehem and Littleton. The center of the network is Dow Park and Fox Hill in the village of Franconia. There are restrooms behind the Chamber of Commerce in the Town Hall parking lot. Cannon Mountain, Franconia Notch State Park and the White Mountain National Forest are located on the south side of Franconia. The Cooley Jericho Community Forest owned and maintained by Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust is located at the junction of Easton, Landaff and Sugar Hill and includes a newly built trail system including a purpose-built single track that connects Trumpet Round Road in Sugar Hill to Route 116 in South Easton by Connection to the NFS Jericho Road Trail and several hike bike multi-use trails.
The Profile Trails cover private as well as public lands, is maintained by volunteers and is shared with community users in all seasons. We depend on the generosity and goodwill of private landowners to preserve the integrity of the network, and ask that all trail users be respectful of land owners, fellow trail users, and the trails themselves.
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It's an incredible feeling of freedom to be able to bike from my house in downtown Littleton to access a network of mountain bike trails (PRKR) with beautiful forest and clear signage. We also have easy access to the rail trail and river walk in town. We feel very lucky to live here."
Angela