Upcoming Programs & Events

Thursdays, June 26th - August 21st

6:00 pm

Abbie Griffin Park

FREE

Kick off your weekend early with the Merrimack Parks & Recreation Department's NEW night for our free weekly Summer Concert Series — now held on Thursdays at Abbie Griffin Park!

We’re excited to introduce the newly renamed Thursday Night Live! Join us each week starting at 6:00 pm for live music featuring a variety of musical styles. 

Come on down and bring your family & friends along with your lawn chairs, and dinner and enjoy "Thursday Night Live each week"

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Naticook After School Program for the 2025–2026 school year.

The Naticook After School Program provides a safe, supportive environment for children in grades K–6 during the after-school hours. The program follows the Merrimack School District calendar.

For the upcoming school year, bus transportation will be available for students attending the following schools:

• Mastricola Elementary School 
• Thornton's Ferry Elementary School 
• Reeds Ferry Elementary School 
• James Mastricola Upper Elementary School
   

Families may choose to enroll their child for 1 to 5 days per week, based on their needs at a rate of $26/day for the first child in the household and additional children at a rate of $21/day. 

Program fees will be billed on the last day of each month. Advanced registration is required and spaces are filling fast.

Saturday, September 6, 2025

7:30 pm
Free

Abbie Griffin Park

Come and join Merrimack Parks & Recreation and the Merrimack Lions Club after the Strides 2K Walk / 4K Run at Abbie Griffin Park for this year's FREE Movie Night under the stars.

We will be showing the movie "MOANA 2"

In "Moana 2," Moana  receives an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, leading her  on a new voyage to find a legendary island and reunite the people of the  ocean. She  assembles a crew, including familiar faces like Maui, Heihei, and Pua,  along with new characters, and they face dangerous seas and encounter  powerful enemies. The  adventure culminates in a confrontation with a powerful force  threatening the islands, requiring Moana to embrace her role as a  wayfinder and demigoddess.

Monday, Aug 25th - Wednesday, Aug 27th

9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Cost: $200 per person

Grades: K - 5

Location: Wasserman Park Function Hall  

Spectacular  Hands-On Science! Come join this very cool and fun summer program for  children in grades K - 5! Each day the kids will explore up to 20 weird  and wacky hands-on science experiments and will make and take home at  least 10 different projects.
 

The  scientists are fast paced and funny and your kids will be thoroughly  entertained (they’ll even learn some interesting things too). We will  explore weird motions and flying things, air and water pressure; crazy  chemistry, light and sound, science magic, electricity, magnets,  astronomy and more. 

Thursday, September 18th
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Fee: $45.00 pp

Come  join the Merrimack Parks & Recreation Department on Thursday,  September 18th and test your luck as as we travel down to the Encore  Boston Harbor Casino in Massachusetts.
 

You  don’t need to be an experienced game player to enjoy this trip. There  is something for people of all skill levels. As part of registration  fee, all participants will receive a $20.00 free slot play coupon.
 

The  bus will depart from Twin Bridge Park in Merrimack (485 Daniel Webster  Highway). at 9:00 am and will departs Casino at 2:30 pm to return at  approximately 4:00 pm.
 

This  trip is open to both residents and non-residents so bring all your  friends! All participants must be pre-registered and seats are limited!