Pillsbury State Park is a

state park State parks are parks or other protected areas managed at the sub-national level within those nations which use "Federated state, state" as a political subdivision. State parks are typically established by a state to preserve a location on accou ...

located mainly in

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and partially in Goshen,

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, in the

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. It is home to the headwaters of the

Ashuelot River The Ashuelot River is a tributary of the Connecticut River, approximately long, in southwestern New Hampshire in the United States. It drains a mountainous area of , including much of the area known as the Monadnock Region. It is the longest tr ...

. It contains one of the more rustic campgrounds in the state park system, with no electricity and limited running water. There are 40 campsites, most of which are reservable. Eleven of the sites are at "remote" locations, most of which are accessible by canoe. Hiking trails connect to the

Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway The Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway (MSG) is a hiking trail that traverses the highlands of southern New Hampshire from Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey to Mount Sunapee in Newbury. Located approximately from the city of Concord, New Hampshire, the tra ...

trail.

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Pillsbury State Park
New Hampshire Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
Pillsbury State Park Trail Map
New Hampshire Department of Natural and Cultural Resources {{authority control State parks of New Hampshire Parks in Sullivan County, New Hampshire Washington, New Hampshire Goshen, New Hampshire