QUICK TRAIL FACTS
- Preserve Size: 88 acres
- Trail Mileage: ~2 miles in network
- Pets: yes
- Difficulty: easy
- Sights: fort batteries, beaches
Fort Foster is a stunning town park, with lots to offer walkers or people just looking for an ocean view. It has history, a playground, a 565-foot pier, pretty picnic table sites, three rocky, sandy beaches, beautiful views of Portsmouth Harbor, and great trails (some of them also suitable for wheelchairs).
The site is incredibly popular in the summer, when the park also charges a daily rate, so perhaps try to visit in the off season, between Labor Day and Memorial Day. If you are here in the summer and you arrive before the gate opens at 10 a.m., you can park at the closed gate and walk the trails and beaches for free.
There’s about 2 miles of trails between the paths and paved roads.
Directions: The fort entrance is off Pocahontas Road.
