The White Mountain National Forest reaches from eastern New Hampshire to Western Maine and hosts a range of camping experiences from backcountry to cabins.  Experience white mountain national forest camping in these 800,000 acres of recreation area by finding an individual campsite through the forest service of camping in the backcountry areas.

White Mountain National Forest

Extremely beautiful in the fall, with the changing of the leaves. Lots of diners, restraunts, kayaking and hiking off and near the kancamagus highway.

Gorgeous in the fall!

This was the furthest campsite down Town Hall Road (right before mountain pond trailhead) on the left  

Space for one/maybe two tents  

  

Pros:  

  

\-Nice little sites (most of them next to a stream) with additional space if you want to carry your stuff across the water.  

\-Super accessible being only a 21/2 hour drive from Boston and  very close to a lot of mountain town activities.  

\-Close to fishing (caught little brookies at our site and elsewhere nearby) and a bunch of hiking and mtb trails.  

\-Free!  

  

Cons:

  

\-Sites fill up fast  

\-Sites are all directly off the road.  

\-we had some car traffic coming through (possibly locals going hiking, fishing, etc)  

\- Really buggy (mid summer)

Lovely, Free, and Easy to get to

Sometimes if you take a little hike into the woods and look around, you find a sweet camping spot for the night. We decided to get one more camping night in before the snow really fell for the winter, so we threw everything in the car and went for it. There was a little snow, cool temps and the time changed, it was just perfect. The spot we chose had clearly been camped at before so we made sure to keep our impact to the same area. Because this is a backcountry, dispersed site, be sure to practice Leave No Trace practices.