Big Rock Campground (White Mountain Forest)

Overall Rating (1 to 10) : 6.5

Location: near Lincoln, NH

Big Rock campground is off the Kancamagus Highway in the White Mountains National Forest. The sites are large, well spaced and wooded, and the campground is only a ten minute drive from Lincoln (on the west end of the Kancamagus). There's plenty of hiking in all directions, though there aren't any trails directly out of the campground.

The campground is very pretty and appears well-maintained, though rustic. For facilities, Big Rock only has pit toilets, which was a bit of a let down after Dry River campground, which had hot running water and showers (for the same price). But I still enjoyed it here and would come back. I liked the way the sites were terraced on the mountainside -- most of the sites are accessed by a short staircase up or down the slope, which made it feel more private. You can hear some road noise, but I hardly noticed it, and our site was one of the closest to the road.