Edward MacDowell Lake Day Use Facilities in NH -- Campground & RV Camping

Edward MacDowell Lake is a 165-acre day-use park set in the rolling, forested hills of southern New Hampshire's Monadnock Region. The park features a boat ramp, a car-top launch, a swimming beach, a playground, volleyball court, and horseshoe pits. On-site facilities include two picnic shelters, grills, flush toilets, and drinking water. Visitors can hike the West Ridge Trail through surrounding forest and wetlands or fish the lake for bass, pickerel, and perch. A nearby ranger station provides educational exhibits and runs a Junior Ranger program for kids.

Getting there: From Route 101 in Peterborough, take a right onto Union Street for 1/2-mile, then take a left onto Wilder Street and travel all the way to the end of the street.

• Moderately separated here.
• Nubanusit Brook runs 0.1 mi off.
• Estimated night sky: Bortle 3, a dark rural sky.