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Last weekend Meghan treated me to a trip to the North of the state to spot a New Hampshire icon… the moose!

As we travelled up Route 16 towards Errol, NH the big yellow signs at the side of the road warning us of moose collisions got more and more frequent. By the time we reached our B&B we knew we were deep in moose territory!

Our moose spotting took us mainly to a section of Route 3 called “Moose Alley”, so called for it’s frequent moose sightings. This section of road runs from the northern most New Hampshire town of Pittburg all the way up to the Canadian border. We drove as far as the border and then turned in the road at the border entry point and headed back down towards Pittsburg.

We only saw 1 of our total 6 moose sightings on this road! And here he is (you can tell he is male by the bumps on his head where his rack grows):

The remainder of our moose sightings were slightly south of Errol on Route 16.

Moose spotting strategy is fairly easy, you just crawl along at 15-20mph while checking the sides of the roads for signs of moose (like the mud tracks in the picture below).

Moose sighting are more frequent in the early daylight hours and just before dusk when they move about to search for food. We were told by the lady of the house at our B&B that once you have lived there for a while you get “an eye for them”.

All in all we had a fantastic weekend and I am thrilled to have seen my first moose!

Here are a couple of other pictures I took. The first is a hummingbird on the feeder at the B&B.

Here is a short video montage of our moose searching!