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White Lake State Park
Drive-up · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH · 43.83528, -71.21448
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USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at White Lake State Park
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 446 ft.
Fire & smoke — around White Lake State ParkNIFC · 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 White Lake 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
- ShShower0 mi
- FFuel0 mi
- MMechanic1 mi
- @Mail1 mi
- HHardware4 mi
- LLaundry11 mi
- OOutfitter14 mi
- RxPharmacy14 mi
- EVEV fast charger14 mi
- WWater16 mi
- +Urgent care16 mi
- AAir-up22 mi
- DDump29 mi
- PPropane32 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, 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 — White Lake State Park
Access
Drive-up
Land
New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation
Elevation
446 ft
Ground slope
4.5% · gentle
State
NH
Coordinates
43.83528, -71.21448
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around White Lake State Park · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWhite Lake · ~0.2 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townCenter Ossipee · ~6.4 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- Fuel7-Eleven · ~0.4 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~28.9 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~0.2 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~13.6 mi
- Hospital / clinicSacopee Valley Health Center · ~16.5 mi
- HardwareAutobahn Hardware · ~4.2 mi
EV charging — from White Lake State Park · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger13.7 mi straight-line N — North Conway, NH - Tesla Supercharger (at a shopping center) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach4 within 25 mi · 79 within 50 · 363 within 100 · 907 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS29.1 mi — NOURIA BRIDGTON 3, Bridgton
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO38.5 mi — DC CORRIDOR WINDHAM DC1, Windham
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)9.8 mi — Tin Mountain Conservation Center, Albany, NH (at a museum) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-12 · hours: 8:30am-5pm 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 203258 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around White Lake State Park · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomHammond Trail Parking Lot · ~6.0 mi N · USFS
- RestroomPiper Trailhead · ~7.3 mi N · USFS
- RestroomCabin Trail Parking Lot · ~8.1 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletWhite Ledge · ~8.2 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — White Lake State Park · New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation · NH
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps White Lake as a perennial lake or pond, ~0.2 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 4.5% — 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 White Lake State Park elsewhere
Other camps near White Lake State Park
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- White Ledge~8.2 mi · fee
- Camp Penacook Shelter~8.9 mi
- Covered Bridge~11.6 mi · fee
- Blackberry Crossing~11.9 mi · fee
Who holds the land at White Lake State Park
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as White Lake 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 — White Lake 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
Roughly 200 family campsites plus group areas and youth group sites on White Lake in Tamworth, on the southern edge of the White Mountains. Campground opens full-time 5/15 (Area 1 only), fall primitive 10/12, last date 10/24. Rate: statewide table (no per-park rate published). Note the park page's warning that overnight parking and camping are not permitted outside the campground. SOURCE: https://www.nhstateparks.org/find-parks-trails/white-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 White Lake 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 — White Lake State Park
Camping near a reservoir →Water on public land →Cold-weather camping →Leave no trace →All field notes →