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So much fun!
Went on a weekend and it was still very peaceful! Lots to do on such a beautiful back road. We stayed at two different sites each night we were there and both were equally beautiful and peaceful
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Intervale, New Hampshire serves as a gateway to diverse camping experiences in the White Mountains region. Established campgrounds like Dry River Campground in Crawford Notch State Park and Jellystone Park Glen Ellis provide developed options for tent and RV camping, while Town Hall Road offers free dispersed camping opportunities. The area features a mix of accommodation types, including tent sites, RV hookups, cabins, and glamping setups across both private and state-managed properties. Most campgrounds are situated along scenic rivers or within easy access to mountain trails.
Camping in the Intervale area follows distinct seasonal patterns, with most established campgrounds operating from mid-May through October. Winter conditions generally restrict camping options, while summer months see high demand for riverfront sites. "We love this campground! Great clean pool, arcade and playground for the kids, great store and laundry facilities. The staff is engaged and very helpful," noted one visitor about Glen Ellis. Facilities range from primitive sites with minimal amenities to full-service campgrounds offering electric hookups, shower facilities, and recreational amenities. Many locations require reservations during peak season, particularly on summer weekends and holiday periods, with some sites booking months in advance.
Waterfront camping represents a significant draw throughout the region, with several campgrounds positioned along the Saco and Ellis Rivers. The crystal-clear waters provide swimming, fishing, and tubing opportunities that campers consistently rate highly. Families tend to gravitate toward developed campgrounds with amenities like swimming pools, playgrounds, and organized activities, while those seeking more solitude may prefer the dispersed options. Reviews indicate varying noise levels depending on proximity to attractions - campgrounds near Story Land amusement park experience daytime noise but quiet evenings. Wildlife encounters, including black bears, are occasionally reported, requiring proper food storage precautions at all campsites regardless of development level.
Best Campgrounds near Intervale (288)
1. Town Hall Road Dispersed
"Awesome boondocking in New Hampshire, what a treat in the east coast! Just beautiful scenery, with trees, rivers, creeks, hiking trails with a pond- we absolutely loved our time here. "
"There were plenty of sites to choose from and most (not all) had access to the river as well as a fire ring. Sites were on a dirt road, but it was quiet for the most part."
2. Dry River Campground — Crawford Notch State Park
"Cool location right on the edge of the Dry River Wilderness. Great Basecamp for lots of hikes in the area. Some spots are right on the highway with not much tree cover in between so can be loud."
"This state park campground located between Rte 302 and the Dry River in Crawford Notch is a great location for exploring family friendly trails to (Sawyer Pond, Arethusa Falls, Willard Cliffs to name a"
from $35 - $40 / night
Check Availability3. Eastern Slope Camping Area
"A large wooden shelter stood over our picnic table, with a decent amount of space next to it for tents or a small camper."
"Great location with easy ride to all North Conway attractions. Nice hay ride and playground. The beach is sandy and lots of room to spread out. We visited Story Land and Mt."
4. Jellystone Park™ Glen Ellis
"Located between the Ellis River and the Saco River, this campground offers so many fantastic amenities."
"Plenty to do at the campground and around the surrounding area for people
of all ages.
Remember you are in the mountains... you will see wildlife."
5. Covered Bridge
"He absolutely loved it and there was plenty of space in the tent site for him to roam around."
"Our site was spacious and backed up to a little ravine so it was fairly private even though it was right next to the bathrooms (also convenient). We weren’t far from a hand pump water spigot, either."
from $30 / night
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"Our site was big and walking around the grounds the other sites appeared to all be pretty good sized as well. They are not lying when they call their sites secluded either!"
"Cabins and RV sites with hookups are closer yo the entrance, store and road. That latter feature is a bit if a bummer bc the noise from cars and trucks zipping by on route 302 is loud."
from $25 / night
Check Availability7. Saco River Camping Area
"They have bike rentals, disc golf, ping pong table, outside big chess game, pool, outlet shopping was near by, near by historic sites, like kangamangus Highway, diana’s Bath, cathedral ledge, we went"
"People to our left and the ones behind us were annual vistors to this campground. We are new to Rving it was refreshing to be around such nice people."
8. White Lake State Park Campground
"Last weekend, our family stayed at White Lake State Park for four days."
"I’ve stayed here a few times and love the location and access to White Lake."
from $35 - $105 / night
Check Availability9. Jigger Johnson Campground
"Located on the Kancamagus Highway in New Hampshire, Jigger Johnson is one of those great sites that has close proximity to plenty of hiking, exploring, swimming and isn't too far from the hustle and bustle"
"earlier in the day, around 1 pm when new campers are welcomed."
from $24 / night
Check Availability10. White Ledge Campground
"White Ledge Campground is in the White Mountain National Forest and should not be confused with nearby White Lake State Park."
"Water spigot and vault toilets, dumpsters all within easy walking distance of all sites. Great spot to start Carter Ledge Trail to hike Three Sisters and Mount Chocorua."
from $30 / night
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Drive Time
- 1 hr 29 min from Lewiston, ME
- 1 hr 41 min from Portland, ME
- 1 hr 52 min from Manchester, NH
- 2 hrs 34 min from Burlington, VT
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Recent Reviews near Intervale, NH
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- MMarie S.Scout
Gunstock Campground
Apparently Your Reserved Site Is More of a Suggestion
⭐**Gunstock Campground: Apparently Your Reserved Site Is More of a Suggestion**
I don't believe I have**ever** left a negative Google review. I generally think that when something goes wrong, you contact the business, give them an opportunity to make it right, and most businesses are genuinely interested in doing exactly that.
Gunstock Campground has cured me of that quaint notion.
I reserved a full-hookup campsite for two nights. I was unable to make it there the first night, but arrived shortly after 7:00 a.m. the next morning. The camp store, where registration takes place, wasn't open yet, so I headed out for my planned hike— about six miles through the Belknaps, including summiting Rowe twice and Gunstock.
By the time I returned, I was utterly exhausted, starving, and actually feeling weak. My ambitions for the afternoon were modest:**eat something, take a shower, and collapse at the campsite I had paid for.**
The staff at the camp store greeted me warmly, checked me in, and sent me on my way.
I drove to my site. There was already a camper in it. Not merely*parked* there, mind you. They had apparently moved right in. They were hooked up to**my site's water and electric**, with water spraying from their ill-fitting hose connection and forming a rather impressive puddle underneath the camper.
I returned to the camp store to report that someone had apparently activated Gunstock's new**"Choose Any Site You Like"** camping plan. A staff member went down to speak with them and came back to tell me they were "packing up." Excellent! My mistake was assuming" packing up" meant**leaving**. It did not.
Apparently these campers had actually reserved a site**two rows away** that had**no water or electric**. Yet somehow, sometime after arriving the previous night, they had accidentally found themselves two rows over, in my clearly different site, connected to utilities their reservation didn't include.
We've all made mistakes. I've occasionally parked one space away from where I intended. I've never accidentally parked**two rows away, hooked myself up to someone else's electricity and water, and spent the night.**
But perhaps I lack imagination.
After they had now consumed about an hour of my afternoon— which, incidentally, is an hour I normally bill at attorney rates— I went back toward my site expecting to find it finally vacated.
And it was! Because Gunstock had moved these folks to another site**two spaces away from me**, apparently allowing them to pay for the upgrade they had already been test-driving. So the people who knowingly or unknowingly occupied my reserved full-hookup site, used the utilities, and delayed me from getting into the site I paid for were rewarded with...a nearby full-hookup site.
They never walked over to apologize. At that point, I no longer felt comfortable staying. It's difficult to relax at a campground when you've just discovered that site assignments appear to operate somewhat on the honor system— and that when someone helps themselves to your reserved site and utilities, management's solution is apparently to make sure *they* remain comfortably accommodated nearby. So I left. On my way home, I called Gunstock and asked for a refund. Surely, I thought, this would be the easy part. After all, I had paid for two nights, hadn't used the first, couldn't get into my site when I arrived for the second, waited while unauthorized occupants vacated it, and ultimately left because the entire experience had become so unpleasant.
Nope. Instead, the staff member **defended the other campers**. I was told they arrived late and "mistakenly" took my site. I was even told they supposedly **hadn't used the utilities**. This was particularly fascinating information for me to receive because **I PERSONALLY SAW THEM HOOKED UP TO THE WATER AND ELECTRIC.** I also took photographs. Including the enormous puddle underneath their camper from the leaking water connection. But apparently my eyewitness account and photographs were no match for the alternative version of events.
For my inconvenience, however, Gunstock did give me a coupon for a **free Bavarian pretzel**. So there is that.
I paid for a full-hookup campsite. Someone else occupied it and used the hookups. I lost roughly an hour waiting to access what I had reserved. The other campers were accommodated with an upgraded site nearby. I left because I no longer felt comfortable staying. And when I asked Gunstock to make the situation right, they refused to refund me and instead argued with me about things **I had personally witnessed and photographed**. The most disappointing part isn't that another camper took my site. Campers can behave badly. Businesses can't control everything their customers do. **What a business CAN control is how it responds when that happens. ** Gunstock had every opportunity to turn this into a mildly annoying story about a camping mix-up. Instead, they turned it into my first negative Google review.
But hey... **I do have that free pretzel coupon.**
- KKrista R.
TravelerMoose Brook State Park Campground
Like Dispersed Camping... For $42
Pros: We have the p lube nearly to ourselves, thus it was very similar to dispersed camping. Nice little campground with two small ponds (One for fishing, the other for swimming). Nothing very remarkable, though.
Cons: As others have mentioned, if you want flush toilets and pay showers, you have to either stay at the more crowded, larger loop or walk across the highway to get to those amenities.
Richard P.ScoutSebago Lake Family Campground
Find a better place!
We just came back from a big family weekend there. We had 5 sites with 19 people(including children). This is by far the most rundown campground I've stayed! Only 1 bathroom facility was functioning. Of the 3 times I tried taking a shower, I only succeeded 1 time. The other 2 times(once at night and once the following morning at 6am) I only got drops coming out of the hot and cold faucets. I tried the only 2 stalls. Speaking of bathrooms...these have not been updated since the 60s-early 70s when I was camping with the same style bathroom facilities. The children's playground should be condemned!!! At least 25% of the wood is rotted. Some steps are missing from ladders. My granddaughter was swinging in the childs swing, the bottom unlatched and she fell through the bottom. If she wasn't monkey like in holding on she would have done a face plant to the ground. After looking at the swing, I found the plastic latch broken! 2 positives: the campsites are very nice! and the beach is great! Bottom line, these owners are not putting any money back into the campground and it's facilities. They are running it into the ground. I won't be coming back again!
Jen P.TravelerTwin Mountain Campground
Lovely and peaceful
It was everything we were looking for, right on the river, quiet and clean, the section we stayed in was all tent camping so we weren’t sandwiched in between a bunch of RVs blocking the view. There was no lights, generators or loud music. Alcohol wasn’t permitted so that really cuts down on a lot of unnecessary nonsense. Pets are permitted and our dog loved it. It was very pleasant and relaxing. Can’t wait to go back.
- JJose L.Traveler
Town Hall Road Dispersed
Dispersed it is!
Stayed 8 nights with complete solitude. Bugs weren't too bad. There were plenty of dead birch trees and beech trees for firewood. Not any evergreens though. Site 16 has two campsites. I took the further one with plenty of room. Good size fire pit, but people before me left some large pieces of wood not completely put out along with lit coals.
Nikki M.ScoutCherry Mountain Road Dispersed
Dispersed camping in white mountains
We stayed in site #5. It was grassy and had a little creek running next to it that was lovely to listen to.
- Amy D.Traveler
Ellacoya State Park Campground
Pretty ok!
No major complaints. Beautiful location, easy to get to, convenient RV hookups. Goose poop everywhere so watch your step. Showers are relatively expensive. Sites are very very close together.
- Amy D.Traveler
Jericho Mountain State Park Campground
Warning to RV drivers!
Honestly a wonderful place, gorgeous little lake and beach, incredibly helpful and friendly staff. Note though if you’re staying in one of the new RV sites, it is nowhere near the bathrooms or bathhouse - like a 10+ minute walk, and I wouldn’t want to do it at night. The RV section is clearly still very very new, and they’re working out the kinks, so only go here if you’ve got a self-sufficient RV and don’t need bathrooms. There are all 3 hookups, though the sewer hookup was so far back our short hose did not reach. But they do sell extensions at the visitors center, and there is a dump station, though we had to call to have them unlock it. Overall a great place, but be aware if you’re looking for a place with both full RV hookups and bathrooms, this is not it!
Guide to Intervale
Intervale, New Hampshire sits at approximately 540 feet elevation in the Mount Washington Valley, surrounded by the White Mountain National Forest. The region's climate features warm summers with temperatures typically ranging from 70-85°F and cool nights around 50-60°F. Camping sites near Intervale experience frequent afternoon thunderstorms during summer months, with precipitation averaging 4-5 inches monthly between June and August.
What to do
River activities: Tube the Saco River: At Saco River Camping Area, the river provides natural recreation. "We loved this campground! We had a large site in the back corner, and stayed with our friends in a tent on just one site! The river is really great, you can take a short walk to the pavilion and put a tube in and float the river back around to the beach area. We did it 4 times!" noted one visitor.
Hiking nearby trails: From Covered Bridge Campground, access trails directly from your site. "The campground is clean and well kept. Extra bonus is the Boulder Loop Trail that is attached to the campground(it's relatively short, offers several great vista views, and you can walk there from the campground and not have to deal with parking)," explains a camper who visited in October.
Swimming in White Lake: The sandy beach at White Lake State Park offers a refreshing swim spot with mountain views. "The lake is clear, the swimming area is shallow for quite a distance so you can feel comfortable with kids, and there is a separate boat launch area. If you don't have your own boats, they offer rentals of kayaks and paddle boats," reports a visitor.
What campers like
Privacy between sites: Town Hall Road Dispersed provides free camping with natural separation. "We loved this spot. There were plenty of sites to choose from and most (not all) had access to the river as well as a fire ring. Sites were on a dirt road, but it was quiet for the most part. Sites were also a good distance from each other so it felt pretty private," explains a camper.
Access to water features: Campers consistently rate waterfront access highly. "Two beaches! This campground was really nice. Sites were large and level. Many large trees created a lot of shade... Dogs are allowed in the campground and even on one of the two beaches. We went to the dog beach, which was clean and large. The river was awesome," notes a visitor to Eastern Slope Camping Area.
Clean facilities: Dry River Campground maintains well-kept amenities. "The bathroom facilities are so clean! There are great hiking trails right on the campsite. Chipmunks surround you at all times, which was pretty epic and magical!" reports one camper. Another adds: "They have outhouses, bathrooms, showers, laundry, potable water and a dishwashing station all included for the nightly rate of $25 + $6.50 reservation fee."
What you should know
Bear activity: Black bears frequent campgrounds throughout the region. At Jellystone Park Glen Ellis, "We spent 5 days and wished it was longer. The campground was clean, staff was wonderful and the amenities were great! There were 2 active bears while we were there. They circled our camper at night. It was incredible to watch. Of course we never left any food out!"
Reservation timing: Many campgrounds fill quickly during summer. For Town Hall Road, sites are first-come, first-served, with a camper noting: "We went to the end of Town Hall Road and camped at the last site before you leave the WMNF. It was a very spacious site, set back from the road, a little bumpy getting into it."
Road noise variation: Some campgrounds experience highway sounds. At White Ledge Campground, "The campground is directly next to Rt 16, so expect to hear some road noise, more so during the day. Whole site is very quiet at night." Similarly, Jigger Johnson campers note, "Motorcycle traffic on the Kancamangus can be loud, but it quiets down at dark."
Cell service limitations: Most sites have minimal connectivity. A Jigger Johnson visitor shared: "Closest cell service is 6-7 miles away, at the high point on Bear Notch Road." At Covered Bridge Campground: "Very spotty Verizon cell coverage and no TMobile service at all. Better coverage for both carriers near the top of the boulder loop trail."
Tips for camping with families
Water-based recreation: White Lake State Park Campground offers family-friendly swimming. "We stayed on Labor Day weekend, so it was probably louder and more crowded than usual. But even still for a completely full campground it was nice! The sites are pretty spacious and there were enough suitable trees to hang two hammocks. The views from the lake are incredible."
Look for organized activities: Some campgrounds offer structured programming. At Jellystone Park Glen Ellis: "Our three kids didn't have a boring time at Jellystone Glen Ellis! They loved the Waterpark and the foam party! It was Christmas in July week, and they had so many events planned for the week. Included in your stay is Mini golf, shuffle board, the Waterpark, hayrides, movie night, magicians and more."
Kid-friendly sites: Choose locations with appropriate terrain. "This is a VERY LARGE campground, it will be a trek to get to the bathrooms or showers or swimming. You do NOT get to park at the lake if you are a camper. So that will be a long walk. However, the sites were spacious and felt semi private, I had a site next to the bathroom, which was very helpful and I felt confident letting my children go to the bathroom alone," shares a White Lake visitor.
Tips from RVers
Site selection for larger vehicles: Crawford Notch Campground accommodates various sizes. "We camped here for two nights for our first family camping adventure — two adults and two kids ages 5 and 7. The campground was very clean and well organized, and the sites were relatively private. There were some camp sites right on the river, but, if you're looking for shade or have kids, I'd suggest staying away from the sites on the river."
Campground access considerations: Road conditions affect RV access. At Covered Bridge Campground, "The road in for RVs is not terrific. There is about a 1/2 mile that is mostly one lane (with a drop off on one side) and if someone is coming decisions have to be made."
Hookup availability: Facilities vary widely between campgrounds. At Dry River Campground, "Sites are spacious, level, and wooded, though some have no real demarcation between them. This can be good if you are with friends and reserve sites side by side (2 & 3; 12 & 13), Because most of the sites are on the outside of the loop or opposite sides of the road, you won't feel surrounded. There are no hookups. Site are back-in."
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the best RV camping options near Intervale, New Hampshire?
What are the best RV camping options near Intervale, New Hampshire?
RV campers near Intervale have several excellent options. Saco River Camping Area offers spacious sites with water and toilet facilities, plus the bonus of river access for summer recreation. Just a short drive away, Country Bumpkins Campground and Cabins provides riverside RV sites with ample parking and proximity to local attractions like Clark's Trading Post. Both campgrounds are conveniently located to serve as home base for exploring the White Mountains while providing the amenities RV travelers need. For the best experience, make reservations in advance, especially during peak summer and fall foliage seasons.
Where can I camp in Intervale, NH?
Where can I camp in Intervale, NH?
Intervale offers several excellent camping options in the heart of New Hampshire's White Mountains. Eastern Slope Camping Area provides drive-in sites with water and toilets, perfect for family camping. For a more secluded experience, Off Grid Black Cap Yurt offers a unique wilderness stay for those wanting to disconnect from urban life while enjoying stunning natural surroundings. Both locations provide convenient access to North Conway's amenities while serving as ideal basecamps for exploring the region's numerous outdoor attractions, from scenic drives along the Kancamagus Highway to mountain adventures throughout the White Mountains.
What hiking trails are accessible from Intervale campgrounds?
What hiking trails are accessible from Intervale campgrounds?
Intervale's location in the White Mountains provides access to exceptional hiking opportunities. From Jigger Johnson Campground on the Kancamagus Highway, you can easily reach numerous trails for all skill levels, including scenic waterfall hikes and challenging mountain ascents. For more challenging adventures, Sugarloaf 2 Campground offers access to some of the best hiking in New Hampshire, with trails featuring spectacular mountain views. The region also connects to the extensive White Mountain trail system, including segments of the Appalachian Trail. Most nearby campgrounds serve as perfect basecamps for day hikes ranging from easy nature walks to challenging summit attempts.
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