Hedgehog Park — Attraction in Salem

Back in the day, this was a wonderful place for Salem, NH residents to visit and swim. However, over the last 13 yrs now, the town wants us Salem, NH residents to pay to park our cars and enjoy the day, but yet, ALL the NON-NH residents from Lawrence & Haverhill, MA, who have ZERO RESPECT for our town beach, get to park and enjoy for FREE! SAD the MA residents who trash the bathrooms (over flood the toilets by stuffing toilet paper, and same with sinks, toilet paper all over the floor), leave their trash lying around outside the pinic tables as though the waste baskets are invisible to them and, blast Hispanic music. Basically in a nutshell, this park has been taken over by non-residents, non-americans who have ZERO RESPECT for the FREE usage of our town beach. There's a reason why the "townies" don't use it anymore. And even if you go to the town hall and pay the parking sticker fee, you CAN'T park in there anyway, the city of Lawrence, MA has it filled with their MA...

Pretty basic park with picnic tables, one picnic shelter in need of repair, a play structure, and a small pond where people swim and fish. There are also a few charcoal park grills and a single nature trail around the pond. During peak season they charge $5 for parking and honestly it's not really worth that since it lacks shade and the swimming area is super small but it's okay. If you live close enough to walk there, or if you can catch it when it's not too crowded it's not a bad place to be. There is also the skate park, which seems to need some work but the local...

It was a nice state park till they started charging parking fees during the week days as well as the weekends and yet there is very little upkeep going on and a body of someone was pulled out recently from the pond. I do like the park I just don’t like the lack of consistent care of it. And the fact its a state park doesn’t make it right to charge for parking. Your taxes from your homes and land and other stuff make the park possible. Learn the truth and set yourself free. Live free or die! That is the...