Salisbury Town Wharf is a historic wharf located in Salisbury. It was built in 1870 by the Salisbury Beach Steamboat Company to provide access to the popular summer resort of Salisbury Beach. The wharf was used for passenger and freight transportation, as well as fishing and recreational activities. The wharf is one of the few remaining examples of a wooden pile-supported wharf in Massachusetts, and it reflects the maritime and tourism history of the region. The wharf was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

The Salisbury Town Wharf recreation ground is owned by the Town of Salisbury. It is 0.3 acres and was purchased in 1962.

The Merrimack River is a 117-mile-long river in the northeastern United States. It rises at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers in Franklin, New Hampshire, flows southward into Massachusetts, and then flows northeast until it empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Newburyport. From the point where the Merrimack turns northeast in Lowell, Massachusetts onward, the Massachusetts–New Hampshire border is roughly calculated as the line three miles north of the river.