Lubberland Creek Preserve
Newmarket, NH

NEW! Download the new brochure for Lubberland Creek Preserve. (.pdf, 223 kb)

This nearly 400-acre preserve features a unique saltmarsh and a rich upland forest community, providing habitat for deer, wild turkey, and fisher.

Preserve Features:

• Extensive oak-hickory and hemlock-beech-oak-pine forests providing habitat for songbirds, porcupine, fishers, deer and other wildlife.

• Bayshore has extensive salt marsh and associated bird habitat.

• Extensive beaver pools and wetlands basins that sit between Crommet and Lubberland creek drainages.

• High-quality vernal pool complex supporting reptiles, amphibians and insect species. All using vernal pools on this tract for at least part of their life cycle include wood frogs, spring peepers, salamanders and the rare Blanding's turtle.

• Extensive waterfowl habitat associated with upland beaver flowages and streams with species, including wood duck, black duck, mallard, common mergansers and ring-neck duck occur north of Durham Point Road.

• A great blue heron rookery, with one nest occupied by a pair of ospreys.

Trails:
Check out the new Sweet Trail!  On the south side of Bay Road, a .3-mile spur trail leads down to the edge of Great Bay at the mouth of Lubberland Creek. The terrain is gentle and footing is fairly level. On the north side of Bay Road, The Sweet Trail navigates along wetland edges, rocky outcrops, stone walls, old foundations and over Jeff's Hill. The terrain is somewhat moderate, with some uneven footing in places.

For a downloadable map, click here (.jpg, 125 kb).

Directions:

• From Route 108 in Durham or Newmarket: turn onto the loop road known as Durham Point Road (from the north end in Durham) or Bay Road (from the south end in Newmarket).
• The preserve is 6.3 miles from the north end of this road, or 1.4 miles from the south end.
• Parking is along the shoulder of the road -- please take appropriate care in parking as the road is heavily traveled and twisty.