"Frank, John and I climbed to Beech Hill Radio Tower, the obvious high point. The road was dry, but just a little steep. Frank went back to the car while John and I slipped and slid on the icy/snowy cart path to the viewpoint on Sunset Rock. Views were okay, but we didn't see any planes at the airport, but as soon as we started down a small plane flew a couple hundred feet over our heads. There was no consideration of continuing on the cart path this time; we were happy to get back to the paved portion and the car." — barbaratraver • Mar 21, 2017

"Beautiful day for a hike. Enjoyed this hike through easy terrain, past a Killburn Pond and up to the ridges of Mt. Pisgah. Well marked trail, but need to pay attention to changes and signs." — PJSelmer • Dec 27, 2016

"I ran around the Wildflower loop at Rhododendron state park, then hiked Little monadnock. My dog Molly was with me. It was a beautiful day to be outside. I found a lady slipper on the way up. When I was close to the top a family was hiking down and the father asked me if his daughter could have some of my water. I was wearing a camelback and they hadn't planned on hiking up, but decided to after they ran a few laps if the Wildflower loop. She had gotten really thirsty bed was struggling, threatening her dad she would drink from the stream once they got there. I shared, of course. They were on their way, and I to the summit. Beautiful view of Mount Monadnock from the top. It was gorgeous. A quick, relatively easy hike. Molly and I ran/hiked it down. :) " — GirlRunner99 • Jun 7, 2014

"Great, short hike with the Bean. The trail is flat for a decent portion of the hike, and the "up" was gradual and easy. We checked out both the summit and the ledge called North Meadow, on the M-M Trail, which is where the great views are. It was really cool to see Monadnock so close. We had a lot of fun pretending to be different animals, but mostly Lily wanted to be a lizard. So we were. :-) It took us 2:12 to go 3.24miles. Great day, awesome kid, tons of fun. " — KeepCalmClimbOn • Jul 21, 2013

"This was experiment number one for Our Summer of Hiking. My girlfriend and I are hiking the MSGW this Summer and we are getting ready by taking 7-8 mile hikes wearing our multiday packs filled with 30-35 lbs. We loaded up the night before with all of our gear for what could have been the Appalachian Trail, but was only an 8 mile loop in Southwestern NH. Also the 5 cans of green beans we used to simulate our food weight would not have been too tasty on a five day trek. We arrived at Pisgah SP around 9 am after a tasty breakfast at Intervale Farm Pancake House. We strapped on our packs for what would be the second and only time I've had 32 lbs on my back, but this time for approximately 5 hours. Not just the messing around last night for five minutes, climbing over fake rocks and ducking under fake branches in our apartment, while the cats looked on in amazed confusion. We started off down the Kilburn Road and everything was going well until we got past the kilburn loop trails and then the path to the left that the guidebook alluded to seemed to begin to deteriorate. There were no blazes and we continued on the well established road even past a sign that said Not a Maintained ..." — sockmonkey145 • Jun 6, 2013