Deer Hill Loop

The weather forecast looks great and the foliage is marvelous. So let’s do The Deer Hill/Shell Pond Loop in North Chatham and Stow, Me that we pioneered last year. You may remember that the views were magnificent especially on the section around Shell Pond.

We’ll loop around Deer Hill on route 113, Stone House Road, Shell Pond Trail, a bit of Shell Pond Loop Trail and Deer Hill Road. Most of the loop will be on dirt roads or trails. There will be one trail segment that is more walkable than rideable especially where we will link up to Deer Hill Road from the Shell Pond area. This 8 mile loop is pretty flat and easy to ride. To lengthen the ride we can choose to do some more exploring (there's one dirt road on our way that looks quite interesting) and/or we can ride up to The Brickett Place on 113 which will add about 3 miles to the ride.

Please, please, please bring your cameras and take pictures.

We’ll start the ride at the Forest Service parking lot (not a fee area in 2010) which is about .10 mi north of the AMC Cold River Camp entrances on the right side of route 113. Meet for car pooling at the Scenic Vista parking lot in North Conway, at 9:10. We should be ready to start the ride at about 10:00am.