Willand Pond Park

Leashed dogs are welcome to join you for a visit to Willand Pond Park in Dover, NH. This pet-friendly recreation area offers a trail system and a picnic area with tables and benches overlooking the pond. The park is located along the northern side of the pond beginning in Dover off of Route 108 and ending in Somersworth near High Street. Visit Website

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Willand Pond Park has received a rating of 4.5 out of 5 bones by 2 canine critics on BringFido.

Danielle
Jun 27, 2024
Great Walk
This is a great place for a walk- 1 mile each way. The trail is lined with obstacles, work out equipment (pull up/sit up), picnic tables and is even labeled every 1/4 mile. This area has great history and there are signs you can read all about it! Imagine this place when it was Central Park?! It would’ve been so amazing!
Anon
Sep 20, 2023
Interesting easy shaded walk (leashed)
Super cool find. Fairly short, fairly easy walk with a lot of shade / woods. The place used to be an old amusement park / zoo / roadside attraction. A few foundations (bear cage?) are left behind (on the Sommersworth side) and cute to check out (photo op). Also saw some deer.
History: "Willand Pond was the site of a popular recreation area with dance halls and early electric lights accessible by trolley car. Today it is a quiet tree-lined pond squeezed between two highly traveled state routes. The [66-acre] pond is stocked with trout and is surrounded by a trail that follows the northern shoreline jointly developed by both Dover and Somersworth and open to small boats without motors. The pond, in the Piscataqua watershed, was called Humphrey’s Pond in the late 18th century. In the early 20th...[it] housed a Central Park at the end of what is now called Central Avenue...[It was also previously] called Burgett Park."

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