Memorial Garden
The Memorial Garden on Crotched Mountain provides an expansive outdoor gathering space for memorial services with a smaller, more intimate grotto for quiet contemplation. Located near the scenic entrance to our award-winning accessible trails, the Memorial Garden is designed to allow gatherers to lovingly celebrate, honor or memorialize family and friends while being rejuvenated by the beauty and bounty of our surrounding countryside.
The Memorial Garden and nearby accessible trails are designed so that everyone – hikers, people in wheelchairs, seniors and families with children – can experience the peace and serenity of our mountainside vistas, valleys, and more.
In 2014, renowned landscape architect Joseph E. Thompson translated our vision for a Memorial Garden into a beautiful contemplative and accessible space to be enjoyed by all. Construction in 2015 included the creation of a hand-crafted, commanding boundary wall by employee and master stonemason Frank Whitney.
Inspiration for the Memorial Garden was the 2013 dedication of a plaque memorializing Brandon Mills, an outdoor enthusiast and family friend of a Crotched Mountain Trustee.
Directions
If using GPS enter:
Crotched Mountain Memorial Garden
If your GPS doesn't identify this location automatically then enter:
1 Verney Drive
Greenfield, NH 03045
And follow your GPS directions to NH-31
If going via Greenfield turn onto NH-31 N
If going via Bennington turn onto NH-31 S
- Look for a road sign for Crotched Mountain Road - also marked by large roadside signage for the Crotched Mountain School and/or Legacy by Gersh School.
- Drive on Crotched Mountain Road up a mountain incline for 1.6 miles
- As the incline levels off, go past another large roadside sign for the School and a road sign for Verney Drive on your right
- Enter the trailhead entrance for the Crotched Mountain Accessible Trails on your left
A Unique, Everlasting Way to Honor Your Loved Ones
Installations honoring loved ones began in 2015 and a limited number remain available for purchase. All proceeds go to support the life-changing mission of Crotched Mountain Foundation. While space remains, we invite you to recognize your loved one through any of the following:
Spirea - $300
Granite Paving Stone (10" x 6") - $450
Engraving - 2 lines up to 13 characters each
Granite Paving Stone (10" x 6") - $600
Engraving - 3 lines up to 13 characters each
Granite Bench (5' long) - $9,000
Accessible design
Engraving - 3 lines up to 30 characters each (options include photos)
For more information, please contact Kevin Harte, Vice-President of Advancement at 603-669-0821 or kevin.harte@crotchedmountain.org
Examples of Flora You Could Find at the Memorial Garden!
Weeping Cherry
Redbud
Carolina Allspice
American Smoketree
Pink and White Crabapples
Beach Plum
Allegheny Serviceberry