U.S. Forest Service · National Forest · Maine and New Hampshire

White Mountain National Forest

27 federal campgrounds, 4 of them with first-come, first-served sites.

27Campgrounds
4With first-come sites
$18–$30A night, across 4
724Sites, from 21
580–3,040 ftElevation
2States

Where they are

27 of 27 mapped
Drawing the map
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Source: RIDB · NPS · USFS EDW · BLM, unified by CAMPANAC · Sep 8, 2026

The campgrounds · 27

27 campgrounds
Source: RIDB · NPS · USFS EDW · BLM, unified by CAMPANAC · Sep 8, 2026

This land

measured from the nearest campground in the unit
Roadless
Sandwich Range16,797 acres · 1 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Caribou - Speckled Ext5,988 acres · 2 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Mt. Wolf - Gordon Pond11,846 acres · 3 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Great Gulf Ext.15,110 acres · 3 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Waterville4,312 acres · 3 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Cherry Mountain8,766 acres · 3 mi · inventoried roadless area

Camping here is a stake in what happens to it. More Than Just Parks tracks the threats and the comment windows.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Aug 12, 2026

Heads up

Wildfire
A&W Fire fire · 48 mi from the nearest campground here · 0 acres

Who answers for this land

White Mountain National Forest’s campgrounds sit in 3 congressional districts. These members vote on the laws that decide what happens to this land.

Maggie Goodlander (D)NH 2nd · 23 campgrounds · grade A+
Jared Golden (D)ME 2nd · 2 campgrounds · grade B
Chris Pappas (D)NH 1st · 2 campgrounds · grade A+
SRC · RIDB · NPS · USFS EDW · BLM · unified by CAMPANAC · refreshed nightly