Start from 26 curated places around Nashua, NH, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
MT's Local Kitchen & Wine Bar
The anchor of Nashua's dining scene for decades — a warm, candle-lit room at 212 Main that draws a loyal local crowd for its seasonally driven menu and deep, thoughtfully chosen wine list. Sunday jazz brunch is the signature ritual, with live music from mid-morning and a kitchen that handles eggs and cocktails with equal seriousness. Goes by MT's after the founder; don't confuse it with the newer spots nearby.
SURF Seafood
Upscale coastal kitchen at 207 Main Street with a raw bar, sushi counter, and globally inflected hot dishes under one roof — the kind of place where you can do oysters and a tuna roll alongside a proper New England catch of the day. The room is downtown-sleek and draws a mix of date-night couples and business dinners. Part of the Michael Timothy group, so execution is reliably consistent.
Trails & outdoors
Mine Falls Green Trail Loop
A 2.1-mile loop through Mine Falls Park combining dirt path and paved trail along the mill canal and Nashua River — the most-used trail in the city for good reason. The canal views are consistent throughout and the flat terrain makes it accessible regardless of fitness level. The historic gatehouse and dam are visible partway around, giving the walk more character than a standard urban nature loop.
Nashua River Trail
A 5-mile trail running the full length of Mine Falls Park along the Nashua River with sections of dirt singletrack through riverbank forest — more varied terrain than the Green Loop, with 154 feet of cumulative elevation. Links the Millyard end of the park to the western trailheads and gives a fuller picture of the park's 325 acres. The longer distance makes it better suited for trail runners and cyclists.
Things to do
Nashua Center for the Arts
Nashua's primary concert and performance venue at 201 Main Street — a 750-seat theater (expandable to 1,000 standing) that books national touring acts in comedy, rock, folk, and theater alongside local and regional productions. It filled a gap in southern NH's entertainment calendar and has quickly become the downtown anchor for evening plans. Sightlines and acoustics are noticeably better than the older regional venues it competes with.
SkyVenture New Hampshire
Indoor skydiving wind tunnel at 100 Adventure Way — a vertical wind tunnel facility that gives the genuine body-flight sensation without altitude or aircraft, with instructors who have logged thousands of tunnel hours. The experience runs about two minutes of actual fly time but the instruction and gear fitting fill a full session. Ranked #2 of Nashua's attractions on TripAdvisor; adults and teens come out grinning regardless of fitness level.
Landmarks & sights
Holman Stadium
A 1937 Works Progress Administration ballpark at 67 Amherst Street where baseball history was made: the Nashua Dodgers — managed by Walter Alston and featuring Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe — became the first racially integrated professional baseball team of the 20th century. Campanella managed a game himself when Alston was ejected, the first Black manager of a team with white players in American baseball. Today the Silver Knights summer collegiate league plays here, with banners of Campanella and Newcombe at the entrance and streets renamed in their honor.
Nashua Manufacturing Company Historic District
The 19th-century brick mill complex along the Nashua River — on the National Register of Historic Places — that powered the city's textile industry and now hosts artist studios, loft apartments, tech startups, and creative businesses. Walking the perimeter along the canal reveals the original industrial scale: five-story brick buildings, the hand-dug power canal, and a still-operational hydroelectric plant. The contrast between Victorian mill architecture and the Nashua River's pastoral channel is striking in any season.