In New Hampshire we stayed at the Dry River Campground in Crawford Notch State Park. The campground was pretty small maybe 25 sites and only partially full mostly with tent campers. There was a river that ran behind the campground with a trail to it right next to our campsite so we ran down there a couple times. Becky had scheduled a zip line tour for her and the kids the first day. It was over in Lincoln so we traveled around the mountains to the other notch (Franconia) west of us and they went zip lining. Afterwards we had lunch and checked out some of the things on that side which seemed quite a bit more active/touristy than where we were staying. On our final day in NH we got some hiking in we went to the Ripley Falls and then to the Arethusa Fall. The Arethusa Falls trail is an out and back 2.8 mile total hike but you can loop around by using the Frankenstein Cliff trail for a total round trip of 4 miles. After much debate, (some heated) we went around. It was a really hard hike, steep and rocky and we thought we might die, but we made it and it was the highlight of this stop.
One of two dry river beds we crossed to get to the actual river.
Samus found a lot of trees to climb around on
Luke and Becky in the river
Boys got soaked, the next time down we wore our swim suits
Shot of our campsite, 11 I think.
The Basin
In Lincoln we ate at the Black Mountain Burger Company, they were very accommodating of her allergies and made her a lettuce wrapped hamburger and had fries she could eat.
On the Ripley Falls trail. Notice the white blaze, we were on the Appalachian trail for a short period of time.
Only a few 100 feet maybe but pretty exciting... as you may have heard I have dreams.
Ripley Falls
Trail map that shows the trails in the area at the bottom you can see the loop we did to the falls and cliff trail
Hiking to Arethusa Falls
At the falls
Climbed up by the falls, looking back down at Becky and Sam
And kept going to Frankenstein Cliff
Luke and I taking up the rear of the group
Finally got to the views we were looking for
Great views on the cliff you can see the rail line cutting through the forest below.
The way down, it got really steep
View from below, we climbed that. Not a good picture of it but trust me.
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