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Pillsbury State Park
Drive-up · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH · 43.22723, -72.10077
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Weather outlook — at Pillsbury State Park
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,654 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Pillsbury State ParkNIFC · AirNow
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Everything you need — measured from Pillsbury 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
- @Mail3 mi
- FFuel6 mi
- GGrocery6 mi
- HHardware6 mi
- MMechanic7 mi
- OOutfitter8 mi
- RxPharmacy10 mi
- +Urgent care10 mi
- AAir-up10 mi
- PPropane10 mi
- LLaundry11 mi
- EVEV fast charger12 mi
- WWater21 mi
- ShShower25 mi
- DDump36 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 21-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 6 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 — Pillsbury State Park
Access
Drive-up
Land
New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation
Elevation
1,654 ft
Ground slope
11.4% · noticeable
State
NH
Coordinates
43.22723, -72.10077
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Pillsbury State Park · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureMay Pond · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townWashington · ~3.5 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelT-Bird Mini Mart · ~10.3 mi
- Propane / LPGRhymes Propane & Oil · ~22.2 mi
- GroceriesSweet Beet Market · ~7.4 mi
- PharmacyRite Aid · ~9.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicConcord Hospital Family Health Center · ~12.1 mi
- HardwareRunnings · ~14.2 mi
EV charging — from Pillsbury State Park · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger12.2 mi straight-line SE — Hillsboro Ford (at a public site) · FORD_CHARGE · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach15 within 25 mi · 84 within 50 · 749 within 100 · 1179 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)15.6 mi — MCGEE EVSTATION MCGEE MAZDA, Claremont
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO14.5 mi — CUMB FARMS EV POINT 5419-1, Claremont
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)14.2 mi — COLBY-SAWYER LEFT CHARGER, New London, 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 aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Rosewood Country Inn - Tesla Destination, Bradford, 5.8 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
Level 2, restricted access — Rosewood Country Inn, Bradford, 5.8 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 358289 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Pillsbury State Park · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaSutton Rest Area · ~12.3 mi NE
- Highway rest areaSpringfield Rest Area · ~16.6 mi N
- Highway rest areaSpringfield North Parking Area · ~17.5 mi W
- Highway rest areaSpringfield South Parking Area · ~17.5 mi W
Coming out here — Pillsbury State Park · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps May Pond 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 11.4% — noticeable. 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 Pillsbury State Park elsewhere
Other camps near Pillsbury State Park
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Greenfield State Park~23.9 mi · fee
Who holds the land at Pillsbury State Park
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Pillsbury 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 — Pillsbury State Park
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
"This 41 site primitive campground includes canoe-to and walk-in sites." The state calls Pillsbury "one of the more primitive and lesser known gems of the New Hampshire State Park system". Rate published on the park page: "$29 (no hookups)". Open 5/8, fall primitive 10/12, last date 10/24. Unstaffed periods: pay at the iron ranger. NOTE FOR THE FREE-CAMPING QUESTION: Res 7302.02(g) names Pillsbury state park as one of the places where overnight stays at Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway TRAIL SHELTERS are permitted, capped at 2 consecutive nights. Those shelters are a separate thing from these 41 reservable sites, and the state publishes no coordinates for them. SOURCE: https://www.nhstateparks.org/find-parks-trails/pillsbury-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 Pillsbury 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
- 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 — Pillsbury State Park
Finding water out here →Dumping grey & black →Cold-weather camping →Reading your camp page →All field notes →