Albany is a town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States.

Albany is the entrance to the Mount Washington Valley, and features a 120-foot (37 m) covered bridge that spans the Swift River just north of the Kancamagus Highway.

Eighty-five percent of the area in the town is part of the White Mountain National Forest.

[5] Most residential development occurs in the southeastern portion of the town, along New Hampshire Route 16.

Route 112, the Kancamagus Highway, runs east-west along the Swift River and is nearly entirely within the national forest.

The former village of Passaconaway occupies a broad valley along the Kancamagus Highway in the northwestern part of the town.