Stories, Gear, and Outdoor Culture

A new name for downtown? It won't be the first community to rename itself, and it probably won't be the last.

The free park, funded by $2.5 million in grant money and private donations, will offer kayaking, boogie boarding, whitewater rafting, and surfing on Winnipesaukee River year-round, as well as walking and biking trails, camping, water play areas for kids, and an amphitheater. The park will attract about 162,000 visitors who will spend about $7 million annually in the region, Parichand said.

I'm don't think I've ever told the whole whitewater park origin story here before, but there was a potential project before Franklin....

Meredith Village Savings Bank has purchased $25,000 in tax credits through the New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority in support of the Mill City Park project in Franklin.

I had watched him and others race at the Merrimack River during the July 4th festivities. This was back when the river still had whitewater slalom gates at Arm's Park, where the Crack Pipe Wave still sits.

New Hampshire’s smallest city has big plans.

“As we were carrying our boat to put in, I saw someone in a white-water kayak doing tricks in the water right in front of me,” Parichand said. “And immediately, I said, ‘I want to do that.’”

Several years ago, when Marty Parichand first floated the idea of a downtown whitewater park, it sounded to many like a pipe dream. Earlier this month, the project cleared its final and largest hurdle, and it seems like only a matter of time before Franklin becomes home to an amenity unlike anything else in New England.

In everything we do at ONE (or really any Franklin based activity)

"Reminds me of home," Buttigieg said.

The New Hampshire Business Review has been on a year long hunt, to identify the 200 most influential business leaders. It is incredibly...

On a very cold winter day over 2 years ago, a group of us pried open a chain link fence, and carefully climbed a tired and overused step...