Rockingham County, NH — Portsmouth, Salem & Seacoast

I-95 / I-93 / US-1 / Amtrak Downeaster (Exeter / Dover NH)

Rockingham County, NH sits in the southeastern corner of New Hampshire and is part of the Boston metro's Rockingham-Strafford NH Metropolitan Division. Anchored by Portsmouth (a historic colonial seaport and the only deep-water port in New Hampshire, home to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard — actually on Seavey's Island in Kittery ME — plus Strawbery Banke Museum and a vibrant downtown with no state sales tax), Salem NH (at the MA/NH border, home to Canobie Lake Park and the Rockingham Park casino site), Derry (hometown of poet Robert Frost and astronaut Alan Shepard), Londonderry (Harpoon Brewery), Hampstead, Windham, Exeter (home of Phillips Exeter Academy — sister prep school to Andover), Hampton (seaside resort), Seabrook (Seabrook Station nuclear plant), Plaistow, Raymond, Epping, and Stratham. Served by the C&J Trailways express bus to Boston and Amtrak Downeaster.