Paddling near Rochester, NH

Rochester sits in Strafford County at the heart of the Cocheco River watershed, where the river runs 34.8 miles from Farmington through the city to Dover before going tidal. That continuous flatwater-to-tidal corridor, plus the 302-acre Baxter Lake and the border-forming Salmon Falls River, gives local paddlers everything from calm beginner ponds to estuary trips reaching the Great Bay system.