Enjoy Market Square and adjacent blocks free of cars! Stroll the Square, enjoy the shops and restaurants, and see downtown Portsmouth from a different perspective!
Sparkling days on the Seacoast encourage the spending of extra time outdoors. It’s a time to take advantage of everything the downtown offers residents — with the added incentive of no traffic and some special family activities offered by the Recreation Department.
Come out, enjoy the best of the season — and the best of Portsmouth — at Share the Square!
Kids’ activities highlights include:
- Storytelling
- Face painting
- Chalk the streets
- Chess/checkers/Jenga
- Giant Twister, giant Connect Four
- Cornhole
- Mini putt golfing
- Bubble magic
- The Public Works Department offers Touch a Truck for kids.
Share the Square opens the following streets to pedestrian-only travel:
- Daniel St. from Penhallow to Market Square
- Market St. from Bow to Market Square
- Congress St. from Market Square to High St.
- Pleasant St. from Porter St. to Market Square
Weather Cancellations: Any cancellations due to weather will be posted on the City website and Twitter by 9:00am on October 6.
For more information on participating as a business, please contact City Economic Development Manager Nancy Carmer at 603.610.7220.
Share the Square
Sunday, October 6, 2019; 12:00pm – 5:00pm