LOCATION: New Hampshire, also nicknamed the "Granite State", "Mother of Rivers", "White Mountain State" and "Switzerland of America", is a located in northern New England area. It is situated east of Vermont, north of Massachusetts, south of Quebec, Canada, and west of Maine and the North Atlantic Ocean. New Hampshire is home to the highest wind speed ever recorded: 231 mph in 1934 at the Mount Washington weather observatory in the Presidential Range.

SEACOAST REGION

American Independence Museum is a private, non-profit institution for the study, research, education and interpretation of the American Revolution and the role that one state, one town, and one family played in the founding of the new republic.

Strawbery Banke Museum exhibits period gardens and historic landscapes.

Other Attractions:
Seacoast Science Center
The Music Hall
Children's Museum of Portsmouth
Fuller Gardens
Isles of Shoals Steamship Company

MERRIMACK VALLEY REGION

Currier Gallery of Art is an internationally renowned art museum featuring European and American paintings, decorative arts and sculptures.

Canterbury Shaker Village: Get introduced to the customs, inventions, furniture, architecture and values of this utopian society.

America's Stonehenge is one of the largest and possibly the oldest megalithic site in North America.

The Children's Metamorphosis Museum is where kids can have fun while they learn about, experience and participate in the world around them.

Other Attractions:
Christa McAuliffe Planetarium
Canobie Lake Park
Charmingfare Farm
Museum of New Hampshire History
Lawrence L. Lee Scouting Museum
League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Shop

MONADNOCK REGION

Great River Arts Institute is an educational resource for the visual and literary arts, providing seminars, teaching workshops, symposia, retreats, and performance opportunities under the guidance of nationally recognized writers, artists, playwrights, critics and academicians.

Other Attractions:
Friendly Farm
Colony Mill Marketplace
Sharon Arts Center
Cathedral of the Pines
The Inn At East Hill Farm
Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery

DARTMOUTH/LAKE SUNAPEE REGION

Fort at No. 4 Living History Museum helps educate people on the day-to-day living as well as historical events.

Other Attractions:
Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum
Hopkins Center
Fells Historic Site at the John Hay National
Enfield Shaker Museum

LAKES REGION

Annalee Doll Museum: Trace the evolution of Annalee Thorndike and her dolls, from 1934 to the present, at the Annalee Doll Museum.

E. Stanley Wright Museum is dedicated to teaching present and future generations about the conditions on and the contributions of the American Home Front during the Second World War (1939-1945).

Other Attractions:
The Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad
Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm
Squam Lakes Natural Science Center
Polar Caves Park
New Hampshire International Speedway
New Hampshire Boat Museum

NEW HAMPSHIRE NATIONAL PARKS

Appalachian National Scenic Trail is a 2,167-mile (3,488 km) footpath along the ridge crests and across the major valleys of the Appalachian Mountains from Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in north Georgia.

Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site consists of 150 acres including the home, gardens and studios of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), one of America's foremost sculptors.