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Ellacoya State Park RV Campground
Drive-up · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH · 43.57404, -71.35679
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USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Ellacoya State Park RV Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 508 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Ellacoya State Park RV CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
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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 Ellacoya State Park RV Campground · 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
- GGrocery2 mi
- LLaundry2 mi
- ShShower2 mi
- FFuel4 mi
- HHardware4 mi
- RxPharmacy5 mi
- MMechanic5 mi
- @Mail5 mi
- WWater6 mi
- +Urgent care6 mi
- OOutfitter7 mi
- EVEV fast charger9 mi
- AAir-up16 mi
- PPropane29 mi
- DDump32 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 2 mi out.
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 — Ellacoya State Park RV Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation
Elevation
508 ft
Ground slope
1.6% · flat
Nearest rail line
~5.4 mi · main line
State
NH
Coordinates
43.57404, -71.35679
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Ellacoya State Park RV Campground · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLake Winnipesaukee · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Also mapped (OSM)Poorfarm Brook (river) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townLake Shore Park · ~0.3 mi
- Nearest rail line~5.4 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~6.5 mi
- FuelCitgo · ~5.1 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesWalmart Supercenter · ~4.1 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~4.6 mi
- Hospital / clinicConcord Hospital – Laconia · ~6.2 mi
- HardwareAubuchon Hardware · ~9.2 mi
EV charging — from Ellacoya State Park RV Campground · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger9.1 mi straight-line NW — Meredith, NH - Tesla Supercharger (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 6 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach5 within 25 mi · 91 within 50 · 527 within 100 · 1032 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS28.9 mi — McGovern Hyundai Of Concord - DCFC, Bow
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO34.4 mi — REVISION ENERGY DOVER CPE #2, Dover
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)1.7 mi — GUNSTOCKMTN STATION 3, Gilford, NH · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Best Western Plus - Landmark Inn, Laconia, 6.5 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for guest use only · AFDC lists it “$15 per session”
- 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 222796 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Ellacoya State Park RV Campground · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaSanbornton Rest Area · ~13.4 mi SW
- RestroomWentworth Trail Parking Lot/Mead Base · ~18.7 mi N · USFS
- Highway rest areaCanterbury Rest Area · ~18.8 mi SW
- RestroomCrawford Ridgepole · ~19.0 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — Ellacoya State Park RV Campground · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Lake Winnipesaukee as a perennial lake or pond, ~0.1 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 1.6% — flat. 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.
- Rail line mapped ~5.4 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. The atlas also records tourist, museum or scenic passenger service on it. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in 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 Ellacoya State Park RV Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Ellacoya State Park RV Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- White Lake State Park~19.4 mi · fee
- Flat Mtn Pond Shelter~23.7 mi
- Campton Group Campground~24.5 mi
- Campton Family Campground~24.7 mi
Who holds the land at Ellacoya State Park RV Campground
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Ellacoya 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 — Ellacoya State Park RV Campground
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
37 RV sites with three-way (water/electric/sewer) hook-ups on Lake Winnipesaukee, reservation only, open 4/30 through Columbus Day weekend. "The rate per a night is $60 per rig". RV only -- this is not a tent campground. SPECIAL STAY LIMIT: the park page quotes Res 7302.03(d) -- Hampton Beach and Ellacoya RV parks "shall have a maximum duration of 14 consecutive or accumulative days from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend for any person or camping vehicle" and extensions are not permitted. SOURCE: https://www.nhstateparks.org/find-parks-trails/ellacoya-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.
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 Ellacoya State Park RV Campground
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
- Seasonal & winter access
- 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 — Ellacoya State Park RV Campground
Finding water out here →Dumping grey & black →Cold-weather camping →Reading your camp page →All field notes →