Ready to start celebrating the holidays? Our friends in New Hampshire have lot’s of festive local events to make their holidays bright and merry this December. Whether you are a resident in the Keene, Dover or Nashua area there is something exciting to do with the whole family.

 

1 – A Merry Little Christmas Celebration at Bretton Woods. 

There are holiday events all month long at Bretton Woods including a Christmas buffet, a holiday movie marathon, scavenger hunts and more.

 

2 – Inn to Inn Holiday Cookie Tour

Participants will not only tour inns decked in all their holiday finery offering signature holiday cookies and candies, but will receive recipes from each inn in a Holiday Recipe Cookbook to take home and a chance to win a $250 gift certificate for a getaway at the inn of their choice.

 

3 – Gift of Lights at New Hampshire Motor Speedway

A 2.5-mile drive-thru light show features the Tunnel of Lights (the 130-foot-long infield entrance and exit tunnels will be brightly lit, giving a truly memorable experience that kids of all ages will need to see to believe).

 

4 – Jingle Bell Chocolate Tour

Start this enchanted horse-drawn journey by checking in at Nestlenook’s Gazebo.  There you’ll find the entire Gazebo filled with Christmas and Holiday decorations.  Here you will pick up your first home-made chocolate treasure and a festive bag to use for any uneaten chocolates collected on your sleigh ride.  You may sit in the sleigh found in the Gazebo and have family Christmas Holiday photos taken.

 

5 – Vintage Christmas in Portsmouth

Celebrate the season by taking a stroll in downtown Portsmouth where you’ll find holiday shows, music, ice skating and shopping.