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		Now operated by New Hampshire Trails Bureau Grafton County section improved for all-season use with a stone dust and cinder ballast surface Merrimack County section open for 8 years as a winter use only snowmobile trail Friends of the Northern Rail Trail in Merrimack County founded in 2004 to make this section a four-season trail