Current Trail Conditions – Grooming Report

Saturday January 18, 2025

Sunday is the annual NH Snowmobile Museum vintage ride, staging in the Albany Ave. parking lot. Parking will be tight, please be mindful of how you park!

Grooming continues as necessary, some ice to be found in places, ride with care!

Bear Notch Road has been groomed. Conditions on road are “Moderate”.

Albany Brook and lower section of Haystack have been groomed with “Moderate” conditions.

Neut’s Brook is open, ungroomed with marginal conditions,to the lower gate. Gate is CLOSED. Park at gate for 5 minute walk to Northern Bites Restaurant, OPEN Thursday-Saturday 11-8 Sunday11-3

Upper end of Haystack is CLOSED

Meadowbrook Trail is open, groomed to Swans Jct. and 1 mile further toward Sawyer River.

First mile of Meadowbrook is thin, icy and bony.Please treat this stretch with a bit of respect.

Sawyer River, North Fork and Church Pond are open, not groomed. 

Church Pond thin cover. Meadowbrook from Swans to Sawyer less than marginal with rocks,ice,thin cover,waterbars.

Birch  Hill CLOSED. Owls Cliff CLOSED

Do not go around gates or ride closed trails. Conditions on those trails are very poor, at best..

 

 A few things to note:

First and foremost, we no longer have the use of the railroad tracks as it is an active rail line.

We are working with the railroad and NH DOT Rails bureau to get access to the intown portion of the trail.

That will in all probability be an 11th hour thing.

Also to note, Sawyer River will not be accessable from the Route 302(bottom) end, due to a washout 1 mile from the base.

The road closure  prohibits any motorized use. We will be grooming the upper section to the top boundary of the closure.

Bear in mind that this area is now 15+ miles from A: cell phone signal, B: any help you may find yourself in need of.

Looking forward to another great season at Bear Notch!

THINK SNOW!!!!