Pick Your Town
Laconia
Laconia is the Lakes Region’s only city, and it touches more water than most towns: Paugus Bay, Lake Opechee, the Winnisquam shore, and Weirs Beach…
Gilford
Gilford runs from the Winnipesaukee shore at Glendale and Smith Cove up the side of the Belknap Range to Gunstock. About four in ten homes here are…
Meredith
Meredith grew up around a sawmill at the outlet of Lake Waukewan in 1795 and never stopped being a lake town: Meredith Bay, Bear Island, Winnisquam,…
Moultonborough
Moultonborough has 66 miles of shoreline on Winnipesaukee, Squam, and Kanasatka, and roughly six of every ten homes are seasonal, the highest share…
Wolfeboro
Wolfeboro calls itself the oldest summer resort in America, going back to Governor Wentworth’s estate on what is now Lake Wentworth in 1768, and it…
Alton
Alton holds the southern tip of Winnipesaukee at Alton Bay, the Merrymeeting River and its marsh, Mount Major, and a string of smaller lakes like…
Gilmanton
Gilmanton is nearly 60 square miles of hill farms, town forests and lake camps, split into Gilmanton Corners, Gilmanton Iron Works and Lower…
Belmont
Belmont is a mill village on the Tioga River with a lake town bolted onto its north end. The 1833 Belmont Mill anchors the village, Route 106 runs…
Tilton
Tilton is the gateway town at Exit 20, where I-93, Route 3 and Route 140 meet beside the Tanger Outlets and the old mill village on the Winnipesaukee…
Northfield
Northfield is the year-round half of the Tilton-Northfield village, spread along the south bank of the Winnipesaukee River from the Memorial Arch on…
Franklin
Franklin is a mill city at the spot where the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers meet to form the Merrimack, with Webster Lake to the north, the…
Sanbornton
Sanbornton is a hill town of gentleman farms, horse barns and old capes strung between the Pemigewasset River on the west and Lake Winnisquam on the…
Center Harbor
Center Harbor sits at the top of Lake Winnipesaukee with shoreline on Squam, Waukewan and Winona too, plus a summer population that has been coming…
Holderness
Holderness is the Squam Lake town: Big Squam, Little Squam and White Oak Pond, the Science Center, Rockywold-Deephaven Camps, and a summer-estate…
Ashland
Ashland is a mill village between two rivers and a lake: the Pemigewasset on the west, the Squam River running through the middle, Little Squam on…
Bristol
Bristol is where the Newfound River drops into the Pemigewasset, a mill town of about 3,200 year-round residents whose population nearly doubles once…
New Hampton
New Hampton is the Exit 23 town, spread over almost 37 square miles between the Pemigewasset River and the Route 104 corridor, with frontage on Lake…
Plymouth
Plymouth is the college town and the service hub for the northern Lakes Region, with Plymouth State University, Speare Memorial Hospital and a…
Tuftonboro
Tuftonboro is the quiet stretch of Winnipesaukee’s east shore between Wolfeboro and Moultonborough — Melvin Village, Mirror Lake, Center Tuftonboro…
Barnstead
Barnstead sits at the south end of the Lakes Region where Route 28 runs up from Pittsfield toward Alton — a working, year-round town of about 4,900…
Ossipee
Ossipee is the big, spread-out town where Route 16 meets Route 25 — six villages from Center Ossipee to West Ossipee, Ossipee Lake and its four bays…
Sandwich
Sandwich is the old hill town between Squam Lake and the Sandwich Range — Center Sandwich and its historic village, North Sandwich, Whiteface, and…
Bridgewater
Bridgewater is the east shore of Newfound Lake — the Mayhew Turnpike running the length of the water from Bristol toward Hebron, Whittemore Point and…
New Durham
New Durham is the top of Strafford County — the last town on Route 11 before Alton Bay, with Merrymeeting Lake and the Powder Mill hatchery on the…
Tamworth
Tamworth is five villages and sixty square miles of Carroll County strung along Routes 16, 25, and 113 — Chocorua under the mountain, Tamworth…
Hebron
Hebron is the quiet end of Newfound Lake. Six hundred-odd people, two villages — Hebron proper on the common where North Shore, West Shore, and…
Campton
Campton is where I-93 lets go of the Pemigewasset and Route 49 starts climbing toward Waterville Valley. Five villages, three covered bridges, about…
Wakefield
Wakefield is the corner of Carroll County that runs out of New Hampshire and into Maine — seven villages, seven lakes, and four of those lakes with…
Effingham
Effingham runs from the Ossipee River down to the Maine line — seven villages spread across close to forty square miles, and fewer than eighteen…
Rumney
Rumney is a Baker River town — about 1,500 people spread across five villages along Route 25, from Rumney Depot south of the river out to West Rumney…
Alexandria
Alexandria is forty-three and a half square miles of hill country west of Newfound Lake with about 1,740 people in it — forty to the square mile,…
Freedom
Freedom used to be the north end of Effingham. In 1831 it voted itself out, and the next year it took the name it still has — which tells you most of…