Ellacoya State Park is a very popular place on Lake Winnipesaukee for swimming. It faces the Broads where there's usually a breeze. This long sandy swimming area has an RV park with 38 camp sites, bath house, store, picnic area and charges a small admission fee.
What is Lake Winnipesaukee famous for?
Ice-Out Contest
Is Lake Winnipesaukee clean?
Lake Winnipesaukee is currently categorized as oligotrophic (low productivity) and listed as a high quality water by the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NH DES). The LLMP program measures water clarity, temperature, phosphorus, chlorophyll-a, alkalinity, and dissolved color.
Lake Winnipesaukee is known for its annual Ice-Out Contest, in which people try to guess the earliest date that the Mount Washington can safely leave her port in Center Harbor and motor to four other ports (Weirs Beach, Alton Bay, Wolfeboro, and Meredith).