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If you're looking for to find western Kancamagus Highway camping, this campground serves as an excellent place to start your White Mountain adventure. The nearby Lincoln Woods Visitor Center is the jumping off point for numerous hiking trails leading into the Pemigewasset Wilderness; the Kancamagus Highway is an extremely popular scenic byway with numerous hiking, picnic, and swimming spots; and the town of Lincoln offers many amenities.
Exit 31 off Interstate 93. This campground is located on Kancamagus Highway (Route 112); 5 miles East of Lincoln, NH.
Great little campground with plenty of spots, but you need to ensure you get there early because they go quick! Recommended spots by the river if you are interested. Also all tent spots come equipped with bear boxes
I've been to this campground hundreds of times in the 20 years I've lived in New Hampshire! Absolutely one of my favorites! Well kept, beautiful, great location, and reasonably priced! Plus, it's open year round!
Was so glad to find this campground open all year. We stayed here in November when it was about 50 degrees during the day and dropped to 23 degrees at night. The campground is very clean, the camp spaces are separated very well. While there were many open spots I would say there were about 15 camp sites occupied. The campground is on the East Branch Pemigewasset River. There are trash receptacles (dumpsters) to put your trash in. They are sealed (for bears) so you need to unlock them to put trash in. Don't leave food out at night as bears are known to take your food. Each camp site has a picnic table, and a fire pit. Im looking forward to going again when it snows. Its only $27 a night.
Some pros and lots of cons. We stayed at a walk-in site by the river.
I am used to NF camping in remote areas but I guess never fully appreciated just how much camp hosts do. There was no ranger and no host. We arrived early on a Thursday, hopeful we could get a spot by the water.
There are only two spots that are truly private in any way. They were both taken- fine. However, one of the groups had not registered and stayed until 4 or 5pm until everyone else had already set up for the day...then they left! So uncool. The site went unused because at that point, no one was going to move all their stuff. Maybe a camp host would've noticed?
The sites were FILTHY with trash, dog poop and food waste. Pretty crazy considering this was supposed to be a bear area. There was also a bad smell wafting around, hmm...maybe because of the trash and dog poop? Stepping in dog poop and trying to clean off your boots is a significant bummer. The site we were stuck at also had ashes and chunks of wood all over the picnic table.
Cleaning up this much in order to feel comfortable really sucked.
There was no running water at any of the pumps and the pit toilets were quite full.
There is a bridge nearby but the river covered any vehicle noise very well. It was also nice to be right off the highway and five minutes from town, yet it felt like a proper national forest experience.
There's an upper loop with drive in sites. They didn't seem very private and you could see the road. I wouldn't stay up there.
Being by the river was beautiful. I would possibly stay here again, but with more preparation for the campground's limitations and lack of cleanliness.
The Campground was beautiful! We stayed in a spot just off the river. Bathrooms and pit toilets were very clean.
I dropped one star due to a couple issues.
We stay at quite a few national forest campgrounds and this by far was the most expensive with no hookups. At 27 a night compared to often under 20. They don't even have a dump station. We had to pay another $15 at the Mobile station.
My second beef is the cost of firewood. My fault, I should have bought some when I was out. The host charged $8 a bundle and even better, the tag said it was from Maine. So, you tell me not to bring outside firewood but then sell me over price wood from out of state.
Again, beautiful Campground, would go back for sure. I would also bring my own wood lol
