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Lafayette Place Campground (Franconia Notch State Park)
Drive-up · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH · 44.14339, -71.68434
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Can I go now? — Lafayette Place Campground (Franconia Notch 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 Lafayette Place Campground (Franconia Notch State Park)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,770 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Lafayette Place Campground (Franconia Notch State Park)NIFC · 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 Lafayette Place Campground (Franconia Notch 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
- GGrocery0 mi
- WWater2 mi
- DDump2 mi
- OOutfitter5 mi
- FFuel6 mi
- HHardware7 mi
- MMechanic7 mi
- @Mail7 mi
- EVEV fast charger7 mi
- LLaundry7 mi
- RxPharmacy7 mi
- +Urgent care12 mi
- ShShower21 mi
- AAir-up43 mi
- PPropane58 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 0 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 — Lafayette Place Campground (Franconia Notch State Park)
Access
Drive-up
Land
New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation
Elevation
1,770 ft
Ground slope
6.3% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~7.1 mi · other track
Nearest highway
~0.1 mi · US Hwy 3
State
NH
Coordinates
44.14339, -71.68434
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Lafayette Place Campground (Franconia Notch State Park) · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurePemigewasset River · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Also mapped (OSM)Walker Brook (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townMittersill · ~2.9 mi
- Nearest rail line~7.1 mi · other track
- Nearest highway~0.1 mi · US Hwy 3
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~1.7 mi
- FuelPresby Fuel · ~6.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~2.5 mi · customers only
- GroceriesTramway Country Store · ~1.8 mi
- PharmacyRite Aid · ~7.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicLincoln Urgent Care · ~7.3 mi
- HardwareFranconia Hardware Store · ~6.6 mi
EV charging — from Lafayette Place Campground (Franconia Notch State Park) · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger7.0 mi straight-line S — Lincoln, NH - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 10 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 reach12 within 25 mi · 50 within 50 · 278 within 100 · 819 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS12.3 mi — Littleton Chevrolet, Littleton
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO24.2 mi — Bradford ACCD Charging Center, Bradford
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)6.6 mi — SWTCH Energy Inc., Lincoln, NH (at a parking lot) · SWTCH · J1772 · 3 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, no confirmation date on the record · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Indian Head Resort, Lincoln, 4.0 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for guest use only · AFDC lists it “Free”
- 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 102287 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Lafayette Place Campground (Franconia Notch State Park) · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomKinsman Pond · ~2.4 mi W · USFS
- RestroomAMC Kinsman Pond Shelter Privy · ~2.4 mi W · NPS
- RestroomLiberty Springs · ~2.5 mi SE · USFS
- RestroomAMC Liberty Spring Campsite Privy · ~2.6 mi SE · NPS
Coming out here — Lafayette Place Campground (Franconia Notch State Park) · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Pemigewasset River as a perennial river, under 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 6.3% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~7.1 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as other track. The nearest track the atlas classes as a main line is ~7.3 mi from the pin. 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.
- US Hwy 3 is mapped ~0.1 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- 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 Lafayette Place Campground (Franconia Notch State Park) elsewhere
Other camps near Lafayette Place Campground (Franconia Notch State Park)
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Coppermine Shelter~2.3 mi
- Kinsman Pond~2.4 mi · fee
- Liberty Springs~2.5 mi · fee
- Eliza Brook Shelter~4.1 mi
Who holds the land at Lafayette Place Campground (Franconia Notch State Park)
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Franconia Notch 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 — Lafayette Place Campground (Franconia Notch 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
97 wooded tent sites in Franconia Notch, inside the White Mountain National Forest but on state park land. "Camping Rate Per Night: $35". Each site is wooded with a picnic table, car parking and an open fireplace. Open year round: "Winter Camping - Lafayette Campground is a great choice if you're looking for a primitive winter camping spot close to winter hiking, skiing & snowboarding" and winter camping is carry-in, carry-out. The page also notes primitive tent sites "with no facilities". SOURCE: https://www.nhstateparks.org/find-parks-trails/lafayette-place-campground-at-franconia-notch-stat (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 Lafayette Place Campground (Franconia Notch 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 — Lafayette Place Campground (Franconia Notch State Park)
Finding water out here →Cold-weather camping →Fire rules & restrictions →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →