Give a swift wow to the new Albany Town Forest trails, about a four-mile network of blue-blazed pathways.
With a scenic stretch along the Swift River and access from both the Kancamagus Highway and beyond the Kennett Middle School soccer fields, the trails service runners, walkers, snowshoers, skiers and mountain bikers.
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