Agency-listedNH DNCR Division of Parks and RecreationFeeOpen today
Coleman State Park
Drive-up · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH · 44.93728, -71.32582
Ask an AI about this campsiteOpens Grok already loaded with this site. It reads the same records this page is built from, and links whatever it tells you.
Ask about this camp →New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation lists this site. Someone from the agency inventoried it, so it is a real camp — not a spot we guessed at. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Can I go now? — Coleman State Park · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH
Open today Year-round per the agency record.
New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation record: “Year-round” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Coleman State Park
Loading the latest forecast…
Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,338 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Coleman State ParkNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Coleman State Park · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- DDump0 mi
- FFuel0 mi
- EVEV fast charger8 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- MMechanic9 mi
- @Mail9 mi
- RxPharmacy9 mi
- OOutfitter11 mi
- ShShower28 mi
- HHardware28 mi
- WWater30 mi
- LLaundry34 mi
- +Urgent care38 mi
- AAir-up56 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 30-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 0 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Coleman State Park
Access
Drive-up
Land
New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation
Elevation
2,338 ft
Ground slope
4.6% · gentle
State
NH
Coordinates
44.93728, -71.32582
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Coleman State Park · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureEast Branch Mohawk River · ~0.3 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Also mapped (OSM)Little Diamond Pond (water) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townUpper Kidderville · ~4.2 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~0.4 mi
- FuelFuel · ~0.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~0.4 mi
- GroceriesYoung's Store · ~10.3 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~9.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicUpper Connecticut Valley Hospital · ~7.9 mi
- HardwareUnimat · ~24.4 mi
EV charging — from Coleman State Park · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger8.2 mi straight-line W — 64 Trooper Leslie G Lord Mem Hwy, Colebrook, NH · EV Connect · CHAdeMO, CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 20 within 50 · 142 within 100 · 333 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)33.6 mi — The Rangeley Hideaway, Rangeley
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)8.3 mi — LaPerle's IGA, Colebrook, NH (at a grocery store) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-12 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 323548 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Coleman State Park · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaColebrook Rest Area · ~9.0 mi W
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~14.4 mi E · FWS
- RestroomRogers Ledge Tent Site · ~27.2 mi S · USFS
- RestroomUnknown Pond Tent Site · ~28.4 mi S · USFS
Coming out here — Coleman State Park · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps East Branch Mohawk River as a perennial river, ~0.3 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 4.6% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Coleman State Park elsewhere
Other camps near Coleman State Park
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Lake Francis State Park~8.7 mi · fee
- Mollidgewock State Park~17.2 mi · fee
- Deer Mountain Campground~18.9 mi · fee
- Umbagog Lake State Park (base camp)~21.0 mi · fee
Who holds the land at Coleman State Park
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Coleman State Park, for which PAD-US names no manager; it records the owner as NH Department of Resources & Economic Development. That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Coleman State Park
Open season
Year-round
Stay limit
14 nights (maximum duration of 14 consecutive days)
Source
public land records
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
29 campsites on Little Diamond Pond, twelve miles east of Colebrook, including sites for ATV camping with direct trail access to the Coos County OHRV/snowmobile network. Rate published on the park page: "$35 (no hook-ups) $40 (shelter)". Campground open full-time 5/15; the page lists a "fall primitive - open year-round" season for the lodges. When the park is unstaffed, payment goes in the iron ranger. SOURCE: https://www.nhstateparks.org/find-parks-trails/coleman-state-park (read 2026-08-16). NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE PARK CAMPING -- THE RULES THAT APPLY HERE. DESIGNATED SITES ONLY: NH Code of Administrative Rules Res 7302.02(a) (read 2026-08-16 at gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/res7300.html) says "No person shall camp on DRED properties except in designated campsites." There is no dispersed camping on a New Hampshire state park or state forest. STAY LIMIT: Res 7302.03(d) -- "Camping permits shall have a maximum duration of 14 consecutive days at all campgrounds unless extended pursuant to paragraph (e)." TRAIL SHELTERS: Res 7302.02(g) -- overnight stays at Cohos Trail shelters in Nash Stream state forest, at Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway shelters in Max Israel state forest and Pillsbury state park, "and other remote locations where overnight stays are permitted shall have a maximum duration of 2 consecutive nights." FEES (statewide table at https://www.nhstateparks.org/fees-reservations/camping-rates-reservations, read 2026-08-16): primitive campsite $29, standard $35, platform $35, lean-to $40, waterfront $40, water+electric (20/30) $45, plus a $7 reservation fee. NH residents 65+ get $5 off per site per night except holidays. Reservations are through ReserveAmerica / 1-877-NHPARKS. COORDINATE PROVENANCE: lat/lon is the state's OWN published park point from https://www.nhstateparks.org/App/Services/ParkList.asmx/GetParks?type=5a3cf536-dbcd-455d-8700-a21a499cd8b3 (read 2026-08-16). It is a park point, not a surveyed campground-loop point. | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go.
Season
Read from the agency's own season / closure text in this record (data/conditions.py) and checked against the calendar. The words we read are printed under the verdict at the top of the page.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Coleman State Park
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Coleman State Park
Finding water out here →Cold-weather camping →Fire rules & restrictions →How to read this page →All field notes →