The Connecticut Lakes Region

New Hampshire’s Connecticut Lakes Region is wonderfully unique in many ways. Unlike the White Mountain region, it is relatively flat with beautiful boreal forest and meadering streams that offer the best fishing in NH and some of the most beautiful unspoiled wilderness you will find anywhere.

It is here that the mighty Connecticut River is born, forming in it’s path the Third, Second and First Connecticut Lakes and man-made Lake Francis.

The village of Pittsburg, once its own independent country known as the " Indian Stream Territory" is now the largest township in the United States, with over three hundred thousand acres of timberland, mountains, lakes, streams and forest trails.

Newfound Lake

Painted Sky Over Newfound Lake

Newfound, originally called Pasquaney by First Nations People of the Abenaki Nation means "place where there is birchbark for canoes" or "place of the birches".  

At one time there was an active movement to restore the original name but, like many other places, the final decision was made on the difficulty of remembering the name and Newfound was certainly more easily recalled so its name stuck. 

Acclaimed as one of the cleanest large lakes in the world, Newfound Lake is cherished by residents and visitors alike. Unlike many other large lakes in New England, Newfound lake still has a vast amount of open space, thanks in large part to many large landowners and camps like Mowglis - School of the Open, Pasquanney (the Native American name for the lake), Berea, Onaway and others including the NH Audubon Society. Public access for boating lies at the Southwest end of the lake at Wellington State Park where there is also a beautiful beach for swimming.
Statistics:
Watershed........61,253 Acres
Area.............4106 Acres
Shoreline........22.24 Miles
Elevation........587 feet
Greatest Depth...183 feet
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Newfound Lake lies in four different towns along the lake. Alexandria, Bristol, Bridgewater and Hebron.

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Rowboat at Wellington Beach

Gazing at the Newfound Moon

Painted Sky Over Newfound Lake

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Into the Wilderness

Outdoor ESCAPES New Hampshire

This past summer, Lucie LaPlante, who runs Outdoor ESCAPES New Hampshire, received a call from a lady who had had hip surgery nine months ago. She asked Lucie to lead her on a Hike, Bike, and Paddle trip in the Great North Woods. Lucie provides custom-guided outdoor adventures around New Hampshire, so the request was right up her alley. They planned to meet on Saturday morning at the white moose in L.L. Cote Sporting Goods Store and Lucie found her in a camouflaged lounge chair ready to go. She was 62 years old from southern New Hampshire and still loving life. According to Lucie, “She hopped right in my canoe and we were off into Indian Bay. We found ourselves paddling alongside a swimming female moose feeding on lily pads.” All year-round, Lucie conducts guided adventures into the wilds of New Hampshire. She has specialty adventures for women only as well. For more information on year-round custom guided outdoor adventures around New Hampshire, contact Lucie LaPlante.

Outdoor ESCAPES New Hampshire
Laconia, NH (603) 528-0136,
www.OutdoorEscapesNewHampshire.com

Newfound Woodworks

NH Made Products
For nearly 18 years Michael Vermouth has been building cedar strip boats and providing plans and materials for literally hundreds of homebuilders of canoes, kayaks and rowing boats in the form of “kits”. These “kits” are in reality an assembly of specific materials that allow a first time builder to construct the most beautiful, lightweight, and relatively maintenance free wood boats available today.


The Newfound Woodworks started in 1984 as a custom woodworking business. After four years of building cabinets and furniture, Michael built his first cedar strip canoes based on the designs in a book called “Canoecraft”. This type of boat construction became Michael’s passion and soon the boat building and kit manufacturing overwhelmed the cabinet making. The range of boat designs now includes canoes, kayaks and rowing boats.

-These boats are really wood-cored fiberglass construction. The wood provides beauty and shape; fiberglass and epoxy provide strength, durability, and moisture resistance. Most designs are based on historic designs from years past when people simply paddled or rowed. However, the construction methods utilize sophisticated marine CAD computer programs, CNC routers, and the leading marine epoxies. The Newfound Woodworks is a place where the designs are ageless and the beauty is astounding.

The Woodworks is also the founder and principal organizer of one of NH's best wooden boat events the Newfound Rendezvous.


Newfound Woodworks • 67 Danforth Brook Road • Bristol, New Hampshire 03222-9418 • 603-744-6872 • 603-909-8939 • E-mail: info@newfound.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it • www.newfound.com

The Northern Forest Canoe Trail

Written by Robert Dixon


A 740-Mile Historic Water Trail Traversing Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Quebec

Thousands of years before the arrival of Columbus, Native Americans had a well-established network of travel routes in the northeast. Many of these routes were land trails, but where possible water transport was preferred. With the possible exception of the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness in Minnesota and Canada, few areas of the continent lent themselves more to this mode of transportation than the region now known as the “Northern Forest”. Here, glaciers working in concert with other natural forces created a landscape laced with waterways.

Europeans quickly began to adopt the methods for water travel invented by the First Peoples. Beginning with French Voyageurs and followed by others the birch bark canoe became a common mode of transportation for the newcomers within the region. With the help of native guides the reach of these European was soon spreading through Canada and working toward the great rivers of the west.

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