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Salisbury Beach state reservation overlooks the point at which the Merrimack River feeds the Atlantic Ocean. It's a great place to swim, boat, or camp. Salisbury Beach offers 484 campsites for tents, trailers, or R.V.
Visited in February after some strong winter storms. Lots of erosion and damage.
Beach is clean. A seagull stole a bag of chips and a bag of crackers as some people just walk away from their area and unfortunately leave food exposed.
There are plenty of parking areas. If spending the day, you need to bring your own cooler with food and drink as it has no place to purchase any. Also has a restroom.
Just out for a get away. Drove around during off season. Blustery and cold today but the scenery was great
Decent sized site. Nice level concrete parking pad. Fire ring and a grill stand.
Sparse trees or cover, but to be expected at a beach campground.
Clean power and water, but the power pole was remotely placed so I was lucky my plug was long enough. Others were much closer.
Bath houses were clean and ok, but the dreaded 8 second shower faucet required many restarts to get a full shower..... There was a camp store but didn't need it and they were boarding it up as it was last day of season.
Our site was water and power only. Oddly the dump station has no hose bib for flushing your tanks, just the cut hose end to rinse the slinky. A regular there told me he brings a bucket to help rinse his tank.
Boat ramp right at the inlet but we didn't use it so can't vouch for it.
Big playground right before the beach.
Beautiful wide sand beach and a short drive to various N.H. beaches and activities. Our stay was in October so most of the beach was closed, but zero crowd. N.H. was absolutely beautiful. We stayed here to go to Salem and Gloucester but could see numerous activities if we wanted to stay local.
