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Umbagog Lake State Park (base camp)
Drive-up · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH · 44.70395, -71.05151
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USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Umbagog Lake State Park (base camp)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,256 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Umbagog Lake State Park (base camp)NIFC · AirNow
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Everything you need — measured from Umbagog Lake State Park (base camp) · 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
- OOutfitter6 mi
- FFuel7 mi
- @Mail7 mi
- HHardware15 mi
- MMechanic16 mi
- EVEV fast charger21 mi
- DDump21 mi
- +Urgent care22 mi
- ShShower23 mi
- WWater23 mi
- RxPharmacy26 mi
- LLaundry26 mi
- AAir-up36 mi
- PPropane43 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 23-mi drive, 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 — Umbagog Lake State Park (base camp)
Access
Drive-up
Land
New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation
Elevation
1,256 ft
Ground slope
4.8% · gentle
State
NH
Coordinates
44.70395, -71.05151
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Umbagog Lake State Park (base camp) · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureUmbagog Lake · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townCambridge · ~0.1 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelGreat North Woods One Stop · ~6.8 mi
- Propane / LPGSuburban Propane · ~20.2 mi
- Dump station~21.4 mi
- GroceriesStore · ~6.7 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~25.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicAndroscoggin Valley Hospital · ~15.8 mi
- HardwareWhite Mountain Lumber · ~15.1 mi
EV charging — from Umbagog Lake State Park (base camp) · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger20.6 mi straight-line S — Berlin City Chevrolet, GORHAM, NH · EV Connect · CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: Mon: 8:00am-5:00pm; Tue: 8:00am-5:00pm; Wed: 8:00am-5:00pm; Thu: 8:00am-5:00pm; Fri: 8:00am-5:00pm; Sat: 8:00am-5:00pm; Sun: 8:00am-5:00pm · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach4 within 25 mi · 16 within 50 · 162 within 100 · 374 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)23.0 mi — Bethel, ME - Tesla Supercharger, Bethel
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO21.3 mi — ECODRIVE BCAG 3, Gorham
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)18.0 mi — SWTCH Energy Inc., Newry, ME (at an apartment building) · SWTCH · J1772 · 10 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, no confirmation date on the record · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Jordan Grand Hotel, Newry, 17.5 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily · 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 260465 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Umbagog Lake State Park (base camp) · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomAMC Grafton Notch Parking Area Vault Privy 1 · ~9.4 mi SE · NPS
- RestroomAMC Grafton Notch Parking Area Vault Privy 2 · ~9.4 mi SE · NPS
- RestroomMATC Baldpate Lean-to Privy · ~10.0 mi SE · NPS
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~10.6 mi N · FWS
Coming out here — Umbagog Lake State Park (base camp) · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Umbagog Lake as a perennial lake or pond, 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 4.8% — 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 Umbagog Lake State Park (base camp) elsewhere
Other camps near Umbagog Lake State Park (base camp)
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Mollidgewock State Park~3.9 mi · fee
- Milan Hill State Park~12.5 mi · fee
- Jericho Mountain State Park~16.5 mi · fee
- Gentian Pond Shelter~17.3 mi
Who holds the land at Umbagog Lake State Park (base camp)
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Umbagog 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 — Umbagog Lake State Park (base camp)
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
The state's own description: "The park includes a base park campground with 27 sites with electrical and water hook-ups available, 2 cabins, 33 remote campsites and 4 remote cabins in isolated locations around Umbagog Lake accessible only by boat." Canoe and kayak rentals plus "transportation for remote site campers" are offered. Base camp open full-time 5/15 to 10/18; remote sites 5/22 to 10/11. Rates "vary by site type"; the statewide table lists Remote Cabin (Umbagog) $65 and Deluxe Remote Cabin (Umbagog) $80. "All outside firewood is prohibited at Umbagog Lake State Park." THIS PIN IS THE BASE CAMP ONLY. The 33 boat-in remote sites are the most genuinely backcountry public camping in New Hampshire outside the National Forest and each has its own location, but the state publishes no per-site coordinates -- only a "Umbagog Lake Remote Campsite Map" PDF. A future fire should pull that map. SOURCE: https://www.nhstateparks.org/find-parks-trails/umbagog-lake-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 Umbagog Lake State Park (base camp)
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 — Umbagog Lake State Park (base camp)
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