Covered Bridge
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 4829 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Covered Bridge Campground is located in a thick forest along one of the most scenic drives in New Hampshire. This facility provides access to the heart of White Mountain National Forest and its many recreation opportunities such as hiking, biking, fishing and sightseeing. The quaint town of Conway is just 6 miles away and provides shops, restaurants and other conveniences. The White Mountains boast pristine forests, clear mountain streams and rivers and the tallest peaks in the Northeast. The forest encompasses nearly 800,000 acres in New Hampshire and western Maine, and is one of the most popular in the country. Keep reading
Recreation
The adjacent Kancamagus Highway, referred to locally as "the Kanc," is a National Scenic Byway that offers some of the best fall foliage viewing in New England. The 26.5-mile road connects the towns of Lincoln to the west and Conway to the east, and takes about one hour to drive from end to end. The cool, cascading Swift River is a great spot to wade or fish for brook trout during warm summer months. The area is extremely popular for hiking. The 3-mile Boulder Loop Trail and a 0.5-mile nature trail can be accessed near the campground. Learn more about recreation in the national forest.
Facilities
The facility is organized into two loops. Accessible vault restrooms and a hand pump for water are provided. No showers or dump station are available.
Natural Features
The campground is nestled in an old hardwood forest near the Swift River. The forest is home to many species of northern wildlife, including moose, white-tailed deer and black bear. Almost 200 species of birds, including the rare Bicknell's Thrush, live in the forest.
Nearby Attractions
The nearby towns of Conway and North Conway offer tours, shopping, restaurants and many other amenities. Within an hour drive, campers can access the Presidential Range, which consists of the tallest mountains in the forest, including the 6,288-ft. Mount Washington, the highest peak north of the Smoky Mountains and east of the Mississippi River. The White Mountains region hosts four alpine and five nordic ski areas, which provide year-round recreation opportunities. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (802) 289-0970.
What the agency tells you
Vehicles 7'9' or taller are unable to pass through the covered bridge due to height restriction for bridge (see driving directions for alternate route)
No switching sites upon arrival
Be bear aware; keep all food out of site in approved containers or locked inside a hard-sided vehicle and remove all food from area after eating
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Please Note: Site fee includes one RV with tow vehicle, tent sites include two vehicles. If space allows a third vehicle would be an additional fee paid at time of check in if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On. Vehicles must fit on the parking spur at your site.
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
Visitors should be prepared for rugged trails and changing weather: Hike SafeHike Safe
Don't move firewood: To limit the spread of invasive tree-killing pests, firewood from outside the area is not permitted. Some states have quarantines and may confiscate your firewood. Please help protect our forests from invasive species by obtaining your firewood at or near your camping destination and burning it on-site. Visit dontmovefirewood.org for more information.
Click here to learn more about White Mountain National Forest website
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 48 · 8 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Accessible sites
- 22
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…is organized into two loops. Accessible vault restrooms and a hand pump for water are provided. No showers…”
- Showers
- None at this campground
- “No showers or dump station are available.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…loops. Accessible vault restrooms and a hand pump for water are provided. No showers or dump station…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Picnicking
- Night sky · 23rd darkest of 28 in NH
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 8 km away
- Past peak
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 29 of the 48 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $30 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
50 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 29 mapped sitesAll 50 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 49 of the 50 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 48 of the 50 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| COVE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 78 ft | 738 ft | 1,883 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 105 ft | 680 ft | 2,007 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 84 ft | 784 ft | 1,959 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 78 ft | 798 ft | 1,882 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 84 ft | 872 ft | 1,806 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 65 ft | 982 ft | 1,722 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 57 ft | 950 ft | 1,658 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 57 ft | 902 ft | 1,651 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 017 | tent only nonelectric | 61 ft | 926 ft | 1,599 ft | $30 | ||
| COVE | 029 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 105 ft | 511 ft | 2,107 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 030 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 104 ft | 460 ft | 2,211 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 031 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 68 ft | 501 ft | 2,293 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 032 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 68 ft | 433 ft | 2,314 ft | $30 | |
| COVE | 033 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 61 ft | 440 ft | 2,422 ft | $30 | |
| COVE | 034 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 61 ft | 500 ft | 2,403 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 035 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 63 ft | 447 ft | 2,483 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 036 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 67 ft | 468 ft | 2,576 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 037 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 67 ft | 486 ft | 2,641 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 038 HOST | host pad | 30 ft | yes | 521 ft | 2,711 ft | $30 | |
| COVE | 039 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 66 ft | 698 ft | 2,706 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 040 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 66 ft | 648 ft | 2,663 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 041 | tent only nonelectric | 80 ft | 712 ft | 2,618 ft | $30 | ||
| COVE | 042 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 86 ft | 670 ft | 2,538 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 043 | tent only nonelectric | 86 ft | 752 ft | 2,465 ft | $30 | ||
| COVE | 044 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 86 ft | 711 ft | 2,391 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 045 | tent only nonelectric | 82 ft | 811 ft | 2,316 ft | $30 | ||
| COVE | 046 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 82 ft | 761 ft | 2,259 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 047 | tent only nonelectric | 99 ft | 835 ft | 2,180 ft | $30 | ||
| COVE | 048 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 129 ft | 757 ft | 2,101 ft | $30 |
| COVE | 049 | tent only nonelectric | 105 ft | 870 ft | 1,975 ft | $30 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 001 | type not stated | 629 ft | 1,451 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 002 | type not stated | 640 ft | 1,538 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 003 | type not stated | 706 ft | 1,568 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 004 | type not stated | 703 ft | 1,623 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 005 | type not stated | 764 ft | 1,651 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 006 | type not stated | 768 ft | 1,722 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 007 | type not stated | 797 ft | 1,773 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 008 | type not stated | 699 ft | 1,866 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 018 | type not stated | 848 ft | 1,556 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 019 | type not stated | 887 ft | 1,538 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 020 | type not stated | 784 ft | 1,467 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 021 | type not stated | 807 ft | 1,416 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 022 | type not stated | 744 ft | 1,347 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 023 | type not stated | 670 ft | 1,338 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 024 | type not stated | 631 ft | 1,220 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 025 | type not stated | 635 ft | 1,113 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 026 | type not stated | 550 ft | 1,087 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 027 | type not stated | 616 ft | 1,032 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 028 | type not stated | 529 ft | 1,298 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX | unnamed record | 30 ft | yes | $30 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night: 1 it names a host pad and 1 it types MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 50 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
White Ledge CampgroundWhite Mountain National Forest · 3.5 miJigger Johnson CampgroundWhite Mountain National Forest · 5.1 mi
Russell-Colbath BarnWhite Mountain National Forest · 5.3 mi
Radeke CabinWhite Mountain National Forest · 6.7 miPassaconaway CampgroundWhite Mountain National Forest · 6.9 miFrom Conway, New Hampshire: Take Kancamagus Highway (State Route 112), 6 miles west, then turn on Dugway Road and proceed into the campground.
Vehicles 7'9" or taller are unable to pass through due to height restriction for the covered bridge and must use an alternate route: At traffic light in Conway Village go north on Washington Street, which becomes West Side Road. Proceed approximately 1 mile to Passaconaway Road. Turn west on Passaconaway road and follow for 5 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Conway, NH
Typical weather
Typical October night 37°F, day 59°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 10°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Covered Bridge is in New Hampshire’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Maggie Goodlander (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →