Green Hills Preserve/Redstone Quarry Area (Multiple Distances) | White Mountain Milers
"Go to Hemlock Lane in North Conway. To get there, go to the roundabout near Walmart (between Walmart and the Bike Shop off of North South Road) and take the exit of the roundabout that is next to Walmart down Hemlock Lane. Continue by the exit from Walmart and park at the end of the road where there is a kisok and cross the railroad tracks.
There is some great single track that snakes through the base of the old Quarry railroad beds between Pudding Pond and the old Maine Railroad Rail bed that starts at an old Granite Pilaster that is in the woods. Once you go across the railroad tracks at the end of Hemlock Lane, you will connect up with the trail just to the right a bit from the parking area. You will enter into the trails and join up with the old Redstone Road (dirt road), make a left onto Redstone road trail and then an immediate right onto single track and go about 100 meters and you will come to the pillar/pilaster. When you get to the pillar, you can:
A. Just follow that road straight across the power lines. It’s a snowmobile trail and goes on for miles and miles and is great for running all year round. This is the NH Corridor 19 snowmobile trail and is quite runnable all winter long once the groomers have been out. Just keep in mind during the winter, this is someone else’s trail and you’re taking advantage of it. So show the snowmobilers some respect and consider making a donation to one of the many snowmobile clubs in the area. It’s their volunteers that keep this thing open.
B. Turn around and look behind you when standing at the pillar. You will see raised old railbed with single track on it. That’s the Pond to Pillar trail which snakes through the lower areas and is a blast to run. It’s about 2 miles over to the Pudding Pond area.Pudding Pond trails. It is nicely shaded and deer fly free in the Summer!
C. If you go straight on the road, just before the gate across the trail look to your left for a piece of single track that heads up into the woods. That is the beginning of a bunch of unmarked single track trail that goes one for quite a while. There is a lot of choices of crossing trails in there but the rule of thumb is, head downhill the sidehill to get back to the power lines, head up the hill to the get to the ridge. This would also be another out and back and is nicely shaded.
D. Continue past the gate for another 1/4 mile or so and you will see the ruins from the old Redstone Quarry. In the middle of the ruins on your left just past the old tool storage area is some single track that goes through the quarry lathe buildings and up to the top of the quarry. Amazing piece of history and some great single track that continues all the way over to the Middle Mountain trail."
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