The Franconia Heritage Museum is located in an 1878 New England Farm House with attached barn and sheds. The Museum opened in 1998 with a collection preserved by Sarah Nelson Welch, great granddaughter of Luke Brooks, one of the first white men to observe the Old Man of the Mountains in Franconia Notch in 1805. Many other local families have contributed their artifacts to the museum, so that it reflects life in Franconia since the town's founding in 1772. A visit to our fully furnished farmhouse is like a trip to your great grandparents home. Permanent Displays: Iron Furnace Old Man of the Mountains Local Lodging Farm Equipment Self-Guided and Staff-Guided Tours No admittance fee – Donations welcome. The Museum is dependent on memberships, contributions and sales; it is managed maintained by volunteers. Hours: Open from Memorial Day weekend to the end of October Saturdays from 1-4pm. Other times by special request. The Franconia Heritage Museum will open for the 18th season with a new exhibit - The Grange: a voice for the farmers. The National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry was founded in 1867. Here in Franconia, Lafayette Grange #208 organized in 1875, disbanded in 1879, re-organized in...

Our mission is to collect, conserve, and exhibit elements of ski history for research, education and inspiration. We have operated our Museum at Franconia Notch State Park since December, 1982 and welcome thousands of visitors each year. Whether online or in person, we encourage you to enjoy our stories from the history of skiing. With the end of ski season at Cannon Mountain on April 9, 2016, the Museum is closed until Friday, May 27, 2016. Staff will be checking email and responding to voicemail during this period, and may be on site at times. Please visit us after May 27! Our permanent exhibition is From the First Tracks to the Fall Line: eight thousand years of skiing. It presents a timeline of the development of skiing from its prehistoric roots up until the advent of the shaped ski in the 1990s, and includes local aspects of ski history with national implications such as several important ‘firsts’ at Cannon Mountain, and the career of area native Bode Miller.

Closed for Winter season OPEN MAY 26 through OCTOBER 9, 2017 Fridays and Saturdays 11 AM to 3 PM Our campus consists of two barn, one main building, and the newly-acquired Reid-Burpee House adjacent to the property. The Carriage Barn is full of tools, horse-drawn carriages, a Benjamin Morrill tower clock, and a reproduction of a wood-fired stove and kitchen. The second barn, the Sleigh Shed, displays our collection of public signs and a variety of sleighs. It also garages the 1939 Ford Fire Truck #2 given to the newly formed Sugar Hill Fire Department in 1948 by Henry Crapo. This Ford truck, originally a farm truck, was retrofitted by the firemen. When the museum is open, the fire truck magically appears on the front lawn. The main building contains a photograph gallery, a local history and genealogy library, the Cobleigh Tavern, a gift shop, and a unique main gallery exhibit which changes annually. The 2017 exhibit, Our Hat Trunk, features hats from around the world. The Reid-Burpee house features a vintage kitchen. Admission to the museum is free. Donations are gratefully accepted. The well-stocked gift shop sells the museum’s self-published books, antiques, jewelry, seasonal items, and many items crafted...

The Frost Place is a nonprofit educational center for poetry and the arts based at Robert Frost’s old homestead, which is owned by the town of Franconia, New Hampshire. The Frost Place was founded in 1976 when a group of neighbors led by David Schaffer and Evangeline Machlin persuaded the Franconia town meeting to approve the purchase of the farmhouse where Robert Frost and his family lived full-time from 1915 to 1920 and spent nineteen summers. A board of trustees was given responsibility for management of the house and its associated programs, and from 1977 through 2005 teacher and scholar Donald Sheehan served as executive director. In 2010 the trustees appointed poet Maudelle Driskell as Sheehan’s successor. (Read more about David Schaffer and the founding of The Frost Place in this article). Since 1977, The Frost Place has awarded a fellowship each summer to an emerging American poet, including a cash stipend and the opportunity to live and write in the house for several months. In addition, The Frost Place has sponsored an annual Festival and Conference on Poetry for writers seeking classes and workshops with a faculty of illustrious poets, a teachers’ conference, and an advanced seminar. So here...

The Rocks Estate in Bethlehem, New Hampshire is the North Country Conservation & Education Center for the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. Known as a popular NH Christmas tree farm, the 1,400-acre property offers much more. Beyond the neat rows of Christmas trees lined by perfect stone walls lies a world of history, wildlife, and experiential learning. The property is open to visitors year-round, presenting both structured and self-guided tours and programs. Choose a beautiful tree at Christmas time, discover the sweet process of creating maple syrup in early spring with our hands-on Maple Tours, enjoy the revival of vernal pools as the snow melts, the full bloom of summer, and the kaleidoscope of color in the fall. Originally the summer home of the well-heeled Glessner family, The Rocks Estate includes several buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A maintained trails system welcomes visitors year-round, meandering through the Estate, leading guests on short, easy strolls or longer hikes, past magnificent views of the Presidential Range and preserved wildlife habitat. We invite you to visit The Rocks - to find a tree, enjoy a picnic in our formal gardens, look for wildlife, or just enjoy...