
New Hampshire
White Mountain big woods tracking, lottery bull moose tags, and hardwood ridge ruffed grouse covers.
Public Lands to Hunt in New Hampshire
Official Regulatory Authority
New Hampshire Fish and Game Department (NHFGD)

White Mountain National Forest
Encompassing the highest mountain peaks in the northeastern United States across Coos, Grafton, and Carroll counties. Vast tracts of northern hardwoods, high-elevation spruce-fir timber, and mountain notches offer legendary big-woods hunting for black bear, whitetail deer, moose, and ruffed grouse with limitless backcountry foot access.

Connecticut Lakes Headwaters & Great North Woods
Covering northernmost New Hampshire along the Canadian border. A working forest conservation easement guarantees permanent public hunting access across 171,000 contiguous acres of rolling spruce-fir forest, bogs, and logging cuts famous for premier ruffed grouse ("partridge"), snowshoe hare, woodcock, and trophy northern deer hunting.

Nash Stream Forest
Located in Stratford, Odell, Stark, and Columbia in northern New Hampshire. Embraces a wild, pristine mountain valley surrounded by rugged ridges and clear trout waters, managed for sustainable timber and open public hunting for black bear, whitetail deer, and ruffed grouse.

Great Bay & Bellamy River WMAs
Great Bay WMA in Newington and surrounding tidewater state tracts protect critical estuarine shoreline and salt marshes along Great Bay. Provides premier coastal waterfowl hunting for black ducks, scaup, and Canada geese, as well as archery deer hunting.

Bear Brook & Pawtuckaway State Forests
Bear Brook State Forest (10,000 acres) in Allenstown is New Hampshire's largest developed state park, open to hunting across extensive oak-pine forests and wetlands. Pawtuckaway State Forest (5,500 acres) in Nottingham features glacial erratics, boulder fields, and oak hills holding whitetail deer and wild turkey.