Distance: Varies
Difficulty: Easy side of Moderate
Located on Beech Hill Road off Dublin Road/Route 137 in Dublin is the trailhead to the Beech Hill Trails. Beech Hill Road is on the left past the Dublin School if you are coming from Route 101. There is a good size parking lot with a kiosk with a trail map.
Follow the trail, which is marked by blue trail blazers and take a left onto the Zig Zag Trail. You can also walk the road up to the cell phone tower, which is what we did. This was a steady uphill walk for about a half mile. I would make sure you have a picture of the map with you, which the Monadnock Conservancy has the one below.
Once at the cell towers there is a large field the left. Follow the road around the field. You will see a trail on your right marked with blue blazes. We walked about a third of a mile on this trail, but had to turn around as there was no lookout and I am unsure where it went. The trail to the South Outlook is past the first trail on your right, which is marked with a sign.
Despite it being a cloudy day we still had a beautiful view of Mt. Monadnock and Dublin Lake.
After enjoying the view we backtracked past the cell phone tower to the Carriage Road Trail. This took us to the next two outlooks. There are three different trails off the Carriage Road Trail, which all lead to the Ridge Trail. We chose the middle trail and then hiked The Ridge Trail to Eagle Rock where we got more beautiful views of Mt. Monadnock to the south and Skatutakee and Thumb Mountain, Mt Kearsarge and Mt Chocorua to the north.
We hiked back the Ridge Trail to the last lookout which was East Lookout. This was my least favorite of the three outlooks as the view was not as good, but still pretty views looking toward Pack and North Pack Monadnock Mountains.
From here we hiked the Ridge Trail back to the Zig Zag Trail, where we hiked a little ways down and then crossed over to the road to finish the hike.
Overall, we really enjoyed this hike. It was on the easy side of moderate due to incline up. We did get turned around a couple times and had to refer to the map. We hiked about 2.5 miles. There is option for more or less. I loved the viewed of the South Outlook and Eagle Rock. This is another great hike in the Monadnock Region. If you want a treat after your hike stop at Dublin General Store for one of their jumbo cookies.
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