Kayaks on the Androscoggin River, Errol, N.H. State of N.H. Photo by Dick Smith. The Quiet Sport-- One of the very prettiest and quietest sports is canoe and kayak racing. Dozens of water sports enthusiast pit their skills against one another each spring and fall on the tumbling, thrashing Androscoggin River near Errol, N.H. Note the peaks of the softwood trees in this picture. They explain why the area is often described as New Hampshire's Christmas Tree Country. There are literally hundreds of unbroken square miles of this tree specie on New Hampshire's northern border.