Looking to soak in the woods of New Hampshire and art at the same time? The Andres Institute of Art in Brookline is your spot. New England’s largest outdoor sculpture park, the cultural hub offers ...

“It was the landscape in Hollis that drew us,” says resident Louann Swaney, whose grown children live nearby. “You feel nestled in the country and minutes from shopping and highways.” Hollis is ...

The Crawford Depot, also known as Maine Central Passenger Railway Station, is a historic passenger railroad station at the top of Crawford Notch in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The station ...

We’re pretty proud that we gave the world astronauts Alan Shepard and Christa McAuliffe. Also the legendary Old Farmer’s Almanac. It’s braggable to be the famous battleground between Daniel Webster ...

If you’re keeping up with the latest princess news, you already know that Disney’s tiara empire just added its 12th and 13th charter members, Anna and Elsa, from the animated film “Frozen.” Last year, ...

“Does the Abenaki tribe exist today? What is the difference between Abenaki and Wabanaki? Are there Abenaki people in New Hampshire anymore? How many Abenaki are there?” These are the kinds of ...

It is a grim anniversary. On March 5, 1873, a down-and-out Prussian fisherman stole a small wooden boat from a Portsmouth, New Hampshire, dock and rowed to the Isles of Shoals. In mild weather on calm ...

The annual It List is New Hampshire Magazine's version of "People of the Year" awards for the Granite State. Some of our It Listers are famous, but not all of them. The one thing that they do share, ...

Hopkinton artist Wendy Briggs Powell is a watercolorist unlike any I’ve ever seen. She creates her dynamic “watermarks” by using a unique dip-dye process she has developed, which involves submerging ...

For the smallest town in New Hampshire, with a population of 43, Hart’s Location packs in a lot of appeal — and some powerful history. Events there were instrumental in establishing White Mountains ...

Picture a large boulder deep in the forest, webbed with fissures. It’s far enough from any road that, when you lay eyes on it, you feel you’ve earned it. This is no common boulder. An anonymous ...

The results listed here will be published in the July Best of NH issue, which will be available on newsstands, online and in mailboxes in late June 2026. The list below serves as a quick reference ...