Friends of Mount Sunapee

SUNAPEE, NH (November 2009)—Sunapee voters can look forward to a town warrant article in 2010 that seeks to permanently protect over 85 acres of land on Ledge Pond in the northwest part of town. In late October (2009), the Sunapee Conservation Commission held a public walkabout of the area to explain the plan and seek input, and is now working on a warrant article for Town Meeting. In association with the Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust, the commission wants to place a conservation easement on the Ledge Pond lot, which is just under 80 acres and designated as Town Forest. The proposal will also include the Gore lot (1.2 acres of town-owned land) and a 7-acre parcel on the northwest side of the pond.

Ledge Pond is a 110-acre, shallow water body that once served as a surface reservoir for Georges Mills. The land around the pond is largely undeveloped. Loons are still known to return to Ledge Pond to nest in the spring. The conservation of land around Ledge Pond is consistent with the Commission’s natural inventory plan for protecting Sunapee’s important ecological assets including unfragmented forestlands, wildlife habitat and water resources. 

Download a Ledge Pond Lot Trail Map, prepared by the Sunapee Conservation Commission.