Arrive Magazine - March/April 2012

Left: A hiker on the Grafton Loop Trail. Below: Bethel Inn Resort.

owners of today who find not only more services and amenities during non-ski season but also hiking for all ages at all levels of fitness.

More than two dozen day
hikes close to Bethel join several
one- to three-night backpacking
trips, such as the Grafton Loop
Trail. Bethel is just right as a hik-
er’s town, says resident Landon
Fake. “You can get coffee early,
hike all day and go out for a nice
dinner when you get back.”
Although the 2.4-mile Table
Rock Trail includes steep, stren-
uous steps, the trail in general,
according to Fake, “is an hour’s
unintimidating hike off the road
with a dramatic view at the top
when you pop out of the woods
onto a large slab of rock.”
The Bethel Historical Soci-
ety’s walking tour in town offers
another option: 39 sites and
structures selected for their
architectural or historical sig-
nificance, dating from 1774 to
the 1920s. Jonathan Goldberg,
the town’s outfitter resource,
who owns True North Adven-
tureware, puts it best. “If you’ve
always thought of hikes as being
up to the top of something,” he
says, “you can come here with
a toddler or another adult and
learn to enjoy a path along a gur-
gling river.” bethelmaine.com

—Martha Steger

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