Russell Pond Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 8465 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Off the beaten path, Russell Pond Campground is nestled into the hillside overlooking Russell Pond, a popular boating and fishing site (due in part to regular fish stocking by the State Fish and Game Department). The 84 campsites accommodate most any camping desires from tent camping to large RVs. 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 White Mountains are a favorite among hikers. Many miles of hiking and mountain biking trails are within a short drive of the campground. Within the facility, nature programs are available on Saturday nights in July and August. Anglers can cast a line for trout in the pond which averages 33' in depth. Power boats are not permitted on the pond.
Facilities
This hidden gem of a campground has both RV and tent sites that accommodate a variety of camping preferences. Water faucets are located a short walk from the campsites. There are flush toilets and hot showers (coin-operated). You can enjoy free interpretive nature programs at the amphitheater on summer Saturday evenings. At the pond, you will find a boat ramp, dock and beach.
Natural Features
The campground lies amidst a beautiful forest of northern hardwoods that provide plenty of shade. The 40-acre spring fed Russell Pond provides many non-motorized, water based recreation opportunities. The White Mountains are 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
Russell Pond Campground is only a short 6 miles from the famous Kancamagus National Scenic Byway which features many opportunities for scenic viewing, picnicking, hiking, biking and wildlife viewing. Families who need a break from the woods can explore miniature golf, a water sports park, train rides and gondolas in nearby towns. The White Mountains region hosts four alpine and five Nordic ski areas, which provide year-round recreation opportunities such as skiing, hiking, mountain biking, outdoor concerts, interpretive trails, special events and regional and national skiing and snowboarding races. The area also contains 1,200 miles of hiking trails, including 160 miles of the famous Appalachian Trail. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (802) 289-0970.
What the agency tells you
Two pets per site
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.orgfor more information.
Learn more about the White Mountain National Forest.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 84 · 47 tent-only, 5 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- 24 of 84
- Accessible sites
- 16
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…short walk from the campsites. There are flush toilets and hot showers (coin-operated). You can enjoy free…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “There are flush toilets and hot showers (coin-operated).”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…a variety of camping preferences. Water faucets are located a short walk from the campsites. There…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek, Beach
- Night sky · 19th darkest of 28 in NH
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 5 days ago, 27 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 65 of the 84 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.
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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
86 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 65 mapped sitesAll 86 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 84 of the 86 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | A01 | tent only nonelectric | 62 ft | 1,328 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | A02 | tent only nonelectric | 62 ft | 1,389 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | A03 | tent only nonelectric | 67 ft | 1,280 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | A04 | tent only nonelectric | 67 ft | 1,235 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | A05 | tent only nonelectric | 67 ft | 1,179 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | A06 | tent only nonelectric | 67 ft | 1,229 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | A07 | tent only nonelectric | 66 ft | 1,109 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | A08 | tent only nonelectric | 57 ft | 1,149 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | A09 | tent only nonelectric | 57 ft | 1,206 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | B01 | tent only nonelectric | 156 ft | 1,460 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | B02 | tent only nonelectric | 117 ft | 1,491 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | B03 | tent only nonelectric | 91 ft | 1,600 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | B04 | tent only nonelectric | 91 ft | 1,617 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | B05 | tent only nonelectric | 88 ft | 1,401 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | B06 | tent only nonelectric | 87 ft | 1,323 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | B07 | tent only nonelectric | 87 ft | 1,396 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | B08 | tent only nonelectric | 112 ft | 1,417 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | C01 | tent only nonelectric | 72 ft | 1,184 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | C02 | tent only nonelectric | 70 ft | 1,247 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | C03 | tent only nonelectric | 70 ft | 1,256 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | C04 | tent only nonelectric | 68 ft | 1,358 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | C05 | tent only nonelectric | 61 ft | 1,318 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | C06 | tent only nonelectric | 61 ft | 1,272 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | C07 | tent only nonelectric | 95 ft | 1,228 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | C08 | tent only nonelectric | 62 ft | 1,108 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | C09 | tent only nonelectric | 62 ft | 1,168 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | C10 | tent only nonelectric | 94 ft | 1,150 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | D01 | tent only nonelectric | 167 ft | 940 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | D02 | tent only nonelectric | 167 ft | 940 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | D03 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 56 ft | 1,002 ft | $30 | ||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | D04 | tent only nonelectric | 56 ft | 1,058 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | D05 | tent only nonelectric | 70 ft | 1,106 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | D06 | tent only nonelectric | 70 ft | 1,046 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | D07 | tent only nonelectric | 71 ft | 1,086 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | D08 | tent only nonelectric | 71 ft | 1,046 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | D09 | tent only nonelectric | 118 ft | 885 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | D10 | tent only nonelectric | 34 ft | 68 ft | 845 ft | $30 | ||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | D11 | tent only nonelectric | 34 ft | 64 ft | 851 ft | $30 | ||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | D12 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 64 ft | 905 ft | $30 | ||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | E01 | tent only nonelectric | 162 ft | 722 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | E02 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 80 ft | 597 ft | $30 | |
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | E03 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 80 ft | 518 ft | $30 | |
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | E04 HOST | host pad | 40 ft | 50 amp | yes | 479 ft | $30 | |
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | E05 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | yes | 90 ft | 408 ft | $30 | |
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | E06 | tent only nonelectric | 68 ft | 315 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | E07 | tent only nonelectric | 67 ft | 249 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | E08 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | yes | 67 ft | 201 ft | $30 | |
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | E09 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 68 ft | 259 ft | $30 | |
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | E10 | tent only nonelectric | 77 ft | 261 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | E11 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 68 ft | 304 ft | $30 | |
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | E12 | tent only nonelectric | 66 ft | 355 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | E13 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | yes | 66 ft | 376 ft | $30 | |
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | E14 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 166 ft | 507 ft | $30 | |
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | E15 HOST | host pad | 40 ft | 50 amp | yes | 522 ft | $30 | |
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | F01 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | yes | 100 ft | 729 ft | $30 | |
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | F02 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | yes | 86 ft | 715 ft | $30 | |
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | F03 | tent only nonelectric | 86 ft | 687 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | F04 | walk to | 63 ft | 590 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | F05 | walk to | 63 ft | 530 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | F06 | walk to | 64 ft | 506 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | F07 | walk to | 62 ft | 444 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | F08 | walk to | 62 ft | 420 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | G01 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 203 ft | 524 ft | $30 | |
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | G02 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | yes | 140 ft | 338 ft | $30 | |
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | G03 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | yes | 140 ft | 251 ft | $30 | |
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | G04 | type not stated | 208 ft | $30 | ||||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | G05 | type not stated | 186 ft | $30 | ||||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | G06 | type not stated | 115 ft | $30 | ||||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | G07 | type not stated | 167 ft | $30 | ||||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | G08 | type not stated | 416 ft | $30 | ||||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | G09 | type not stated | 424 ft | $30 | ||||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | G10 | tent only nonelectric | 62 ft | 378 ft | $30 | |||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | G11 | tent only nonelectric | 22 ft | 62 ft | 439 ft | $30 | ||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | G12 | type not stated | 419 ft | $30 | ||||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | G13 | type not stated | 493 ft | $30 | ||||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | G14 | type not stated | 554 ft | $30 | ||||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | G15 | type not stated | 18 ft | yes | 640 ft | $30 | ||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | G16 | type not stated | 652 ft | $30 | ||||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | G17 | type not stated | 40 ft | yes | 661 ft | $30 | ||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | H01 | type not stated | 171 ft | $30 | ||||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | H02 | type not stated | 121 ft | $30 | ||||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | H03 | type not stated | 82 ft | $30 | ||||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | H04 | type not stated | 166 ft | $30 | ||||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | H05 | type not stated | 199 ft | $30 | ||||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | H06 | type not stated | 259 ft | $30 | ||||
| RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND | H07 | type not stated | 251 ft | $30 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It names them host pads. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 86 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Hancock Campground (NH)White Mountain National Forest · 4.7 mi
Big RockWhite Mountain National Forest · 5.2 mi
Osceola Vista CampgroundWhite Mountain National Forest · 7.0 mi
Waterville CampgroundWhite Mountain National Forest · 8.4 mi
WildwoodWhite Mountain National Forest · 8.5 mi
Campton CampgroundWhite Mountain National Forest · 9.4 miLocated off Exit 31 (Tripoli Rd) off I-93. Head east on Tripoli Road; campground entrance on north side of road. Follow road 2 miles to campground (and a little slice of heaven).
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for North Woodstock, NH
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 7°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
Russell Pond Campground 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 →