Carnival Hill Recreation Area
Open for: walking, dog-walking, basketball, baseball, tennis, soccer, running, sledding, horse riding, snowmobiling, community-gardens, Power-wheeled vehicles excluded. Use by horses and/or snowmobiles may be subject to restrictions. A local farmer raises hay on the fields in exchange for maintaining them according to best management practices.
Getting there: From Main St. opposite the Post Office, go up the hill on Park St. through the stone "cut". In two blocks, pass Whiting Hill Park and the Florence Rideout Elementary School. At the 4-way intersection, go right 0.4 miles to the Carnival Hill parking lot on the left.
Management: The Town of Wilton owns and manages the area. The hay fields are used and maintained by a local farmer.
Description: This area includes, at the foot of Hillside Rd., the Wilton Community Gardens and the fields above them; and along Whiting Hill Rd., hay fields, athletic fields (a part of which extend onto Milford on Wilton-owned land), and the basketball court.
- Open from sunrise to sunset.
- Wheeled recreational vehicles are prohibited.
- Land management may dictate seasonal non-use of the area for public purposes.
- For safety and ecological reasons, the use of snowmobile, horses & self-propelled vehicles may be restricted at times.
- Groups larger than ten require prior approval from the Select Board.
- All nighttime use requires prior approval by the Select Board.
- Portable toilets may be required at the expense of the organization.
- All digging and fire building requires prior approval by the Select Board.
- No structures of a permanent nature.
- Clean up and restoration of the area will be at the expense of the organization.
- This is a Carry In - Carry Out Site. Take your trash with you,
including cleaning up after your dogs as required by state law.
History: Town-owned for more than one hundred years, Wilton residents and people from away have used Carnival Hill for recreation. "Snow-trains" from the city brought holiday makers to Wilton for the excellent sliding hill in the winter, known as "the toboggan run that goes through three towns" (Wilton, Lyndeborough, and Milford). The grassy slopes in the fall may be open to group use.
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