Distance: 2.25 mile loop
Difficulty: Easy
Located on East Surry Road in Keene, NH is a pretty trail. Goose Pond has been on my to do list for a while and I am kind of upset I waited so long to hike it. There are two small parking lots for the trail. There was a sign directing people to the second parking area, which has a sign on it.
You start up a gradual incline into the woods. You walk about a quarter to a half mile in the woods before you come to Goose Pond. Once you get to the pond you can go right or left as this is where the loop starts and ends. We chose to go left. The trail follows around the edge of the pond.
For the most part the trail stays on the edge of the pond. There are a couple sections that goes into the woods and crosses a couple streams.
A downside to this trail is it is not well marked There are some faded white blazes in some places along the trail, but a couple times I had to pull out the All Trails app to make sure we were going the right way.
There are a couple dams that you walk over as you are looping back around.
Another downside to this trail is right after the second dam is a sluiceway that had water flowing over it. Since my husband and I had sneakers on we could not cross it, but if you had waterproof boots on you could. We ended up having to walk down to the first parking lot and walk about 900 feet up the road back to our car, which was not too big of a deal as the road was not that busy.
Overall I loved this hike. The pond was beautiful and the trail was easy to walk. If you are in the Keene area I highly recommend checking out this trail.
