West Ossipee, NH

 

 

 

Up in what might be described geographically, as east central New Hampshire, right near the eastern base of Mt Whittier and situated on the Bearcamp River is Whit’s End Campground. It’s owned and operated by a nice young couple. Jan - half of the owner/management team - is my first cousin on my mothers side. The other half of this team is Dan. This sole-mate team are the heart throb of this campground and will bend over backwards to make your stay with them as enjoyable as possible.

Right after we started full time RVing, our first venture up into Yankee land included a month long stop at Whit’s End Campground. At that time Dan & Jan did not have a couple of sites large enough for our two 38 footers - our long time friends and traveling companions were traveling with us - so, they built us a couple of sites at the end of a dirt road just across the street from the CG office. They ran in some 50 amp electrical power, fresh water connections and put down some gravel to level out the lower site and provided us with a large blue covered barrel for trash. We could dump our gray water into the vacant land behind us. When needed, Dan would come around with his “honey bucket” truck and collect our black water.

We both had Verizon wireless phones with internet access and there was a good signal there. However, TV reception was not so easy. We have always had Dish TV and our friends had Direct TV. Both of us had multi receiver connections and both had two receivers. It turned out to be very good to have both because we never could find a signal for the Dish. Because of the angle of the satellite connections we were able to find a signal for the Direct TV system. We had to get a couple hundred extra feet of cable to reach the location of the antenna from our trailers. Each of us used a single receiver and our “bat” antennas for local TV.

I think the sites we stayed in have since been made into seasonal sites. The last time we were there we stayed down near the river.

While there we purchased a portable screen room for eating outside and put it up between the trailers. Worked real well keeping the insects at bay.

From there we were heading on up into Canada. Unfortunately we had a family emergency and had to go back south. Our friends stayed on and went on with their trip. We connected up again later in the year in IL.

Here is the web page for Whit’s End CG, the train ride in Conway and the LL Bean outlet store. It’s beautiful country up there and we have been back since these pictures were taken.

http://www.whitsendcampground.com/
http://www.conwayscenic.com/
http://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/1000001725

The links are active and clicking on any of the pictures will enlarge them.

The FastEagles
  Cal & Linda