Pawtuckaway State Park, New Hampshire

Pawtuckaway State Park is an awesome destination for hikers, paddlers, wildlife viewers, and campers. There is a large beach on Pawtuckaway Lake. If you visit on a summer weekend, make sure you get there early--the park limits the number of beachgoers, and it fills up quickly! There are hiking trails throughout the park that lead to a mountaintop fire tower, a marsh with beavers and blue heron, and glacial erratics, which are large boulders deposited by glaciers during the Ice Age. Cool! (Get it?)