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An Environmental and Horticultural Learning Center
Making Nature & the Outdoors Accessible to Everyone!
We're Making Distant Hill More Accessible!
Distant Hill Gardens and Nature Trail is located on one-hundred and fifty-five acres of biodiverse forest, fields, and
wetlands straddling the town-line separating Walpole and Alstead, NH. You will find us in the hills, five miles east of downtown Walpole, New Hampshire.
Distant Hill is an environmental and horticultural learning center dedicated to making nature and the outdoors accessible to everyone. We hope to inspire and empower children
and adults, regardless of ability, to cultivate an intimate connection to the natural world through education, observation, and play.
Our goal is to have visitors to Distant Hill leave with a better understanding of the vital connections between plants, animals, and humans, and how we can use
Earth’s resources in a way that strengthens and sustains those connections.
Distant Hill Nature Trail is a two-mile network of wheelchair- and stroller-accessible gravel trails, plus
more than three miles of additional hiking trails. Visitors can explore a children’s StoryWalk® trail, the Distant Hill Geology Trail, a nature play area, ten vernal pools, and a boardwalk that crosses a quaking cranberry bog. In addition,
we provide free wagons, snowshoes, sleds, butterfly nets, and more to help visitors make the most of their time outdoors at Distant Hill.
The Nature Trail is open daily, dawn to dusk, free of charge.
Distant Hill Gardens is a two-acre shrub garden surrounding an energy-efficient passive-solar home. The gardens contain over 450 labeled plants, a raised-bed vegetable garden, a water
feature and pond, extensive creative stonework including a thirty-foot-diameter stone circle, and dozens of whimsical metal sculptures throughout. Distant Hill Gardens is open to the public on the third weekend of
May, and the first and third weekends of June, July, August, September, and October.
There is a $10 fee per adult to tour the Gardens.
We also offer classes and workshops throughout the season on a wide range of environmental,
horticultural, health, wellness, and nature-based topics.
