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We drove down from Littleton yesterday and the views along Rt 25 between Haverhill and Plymouth were very pleasing. It was a good day for a ride but we spent the weekend with family in Landaff and lugged along too much stuff.
BYW - Doug Erb on the Brook Road in Landaff is making and selling very good cheese right on the farm. Well worth the price.
If whom ever wrote that and were born in 51 s/he is 60 or 61 now..... In 82 I could have said the same things i am saying now too. I know of that song......
Not a NH resident, though almost was one. Dad was going to buy a motel around the Notch but died in 71 before he could pull that off. All he wanted to do was get out of CT and land somewhere between WMNF and Sebago.
Once I was old enough to drive I went up there at least once every year. Hiked most everything, climbed most of the 4000 fters (still have 3 to go, probably won't get there). Over those 20 years I brought every girlfriend and significant other to go experience "heaven".
I haven't been in NH since 94 so not sure what's happened since then (and probably don't want to know). But to me, my personal tipping point was when McD's opened at the south end of the Kanc. I remember when there were just two places for breakfast over there (only one of which was good) and lines out the door for both during foliage season. You could still drive the Kanc and not see another car for a few minutes - and have Bear Notch Rd. to yourself. Could actually get through N. Conway in 5 minutes. Squam Lake still had rules on what boats could be used and how fast they could go.
Progress was and is inevitable. But IMO, that area went too far. I feel for you. At some point, even for me as an outsider (do you still call us 'flatlanders'?) it became less than 'heaven' and more an ordeal. The charm certainly was gone. As I haven't been in 18 years, I'm hoping it didn't get too much worse - that 302 and 16 north of N.Conway stayed relatively pristine.
Not a NH resident, though almost was one. Dad was going to buy a motel around the Notch but died in 71 before he could pull that off. All he wanted to do was get out of CT and land somewhere between WMNF and Sebago.
Once I was old enough to drive I went up there at least once every year. Hiked most everything, climbed most of the 4000 fters (still have 3 to go, probably won't get there). Over those 20 years I brought every girlfriend and significant other to go experience "heaven".
I haven't been in NH since 94 so not sure what's happened since then (and probably don't want to know). But to me, my personal tipping point was when McD's opened at the south end of the Kanc. I remember when there were just two places for breakfast over there (only one of which was good) and lines out the door for both during foliage season. You could still drive the Kanc and not see another car for a few minutes - and have Bear Notch Rd. to yourself. Could actually get through N. Conway in 5 minutes. Squam Lake still had rules on what boats could be used and how fast they could go.
Progress was and is inevitable. But IMO, that area went too far. I feel for you. At some point, even for me as an outsider (do you still call us 'flatlanders'?) it became less than 'heaven' and more an ordeal. The charm certainly was gone. As I haven't been in 18 years, I'm hoping it didn't get too much worse - that 302 and 16 north of N.Conway stayed relatively pristine.
Yeah we still call you flatlanders.. LOL You been away too long there is no south Micky Dee's off the Kanc as that is a east west road..
In N Conway there is one a bit north of the east Entrance, South of there at Rt 16 and Rt 25 Jct is another in West Ossipee. I don't attend either one as i just don't eat road side poison. I can not recall any Micky Dee's over in Lincoln or Nawth Woodstock.
The 4,000 footer's Why the HELL NOT? I am 60 and i ain't quite yet, bad back n all........
Rt 302 west of Bartlett is almost like you recall, but the Bartlett Village has changed..The Inn burned anmd has become a park, the corner store sort of caved in and is gone. The Bear Notch is gated and closed in winter. Too many Flats getting stuck up there. I twitched one of the last out and he was all about Mass DOT, because the bill was too high That was the 2nd time I had to suffer listening to people with high power friends down in Mass
About the 4th time i told him he was NOT in Mass and he would PAY the Bill of find his vehicel in SACO Maine come Spring time he got it.... The river here still goes there as you would recall
The other fool did about the same other than he blocked off my well marker sleigh trail at Attitash with a jeep, which he left locked in 4x4.
Umm......... that won't stop a team of 1,200 each Belgian horses any
I did ask all polite like too at the first time the guy was going to park in my trail head.
It was not my fault that I had entered and was blocked in from coming out for my next load of tourists to haul either.
So I spun the pung in it's place and chained up that jeep and parked down by the river!
Oh Boy was that guy mad in the morning........ I got there about 4 in the late afternoon with the team. His emergency wasn't my problem. I was a bit earlier than I planned, but because the local wrecker was stuck down the trail a hundred yards and my trail needed to be open by 4:30.
So I pulled out the wrecker first listening to the Flat. I told him 90 bucks before but that whine got me and so the bill went up to 150. It was that or Ice Out... That fool tried to write check LOL Nope I like green stuff... Ice out will be in about 90 days
I still like it over that way....... I miss the old pipe line that ran on the south side of the Kanc.. Do you recall that, and or the old dam now long gone? I like west of there too up by the other Lost Pond..
I go across the Kanc every now and a spell to feast @ the Woodstock inn, and to visit Kelly's tattoo in Woodstock, for another reason....
Lincoln/Woodstock is where my folks first took us in NH when I was a wee laddy. Ol' Clark's TP and his trained bears.
Took my kid there too all the time when she was little, when you could feed the bears by means of the strings and cans....[remember???] We'd camp on the Baker River in Rumney, and run up to Woodstock a nite or two.
When we started to truly consider moving to NH, we first looked in those locations, then Littleton, then Bethlehem. I liked Bethlehem, and Dalton.
When we came across the Mt. W. valley, we fell hard for Madison, and the house is in a great locale, right along the Big Pea, so the rest is history.
NNHGuy I really like that place in N Woodstock too. Bike it over there lots..... Truants as well but there food isn't that great unless they have steamers! My bike days are getting numbered and i don't mean pedal bikes either.. (evil grin)
Not into tatts funny huh a Rider no tatts....
I see you did and probably STILL have the dream.... 'Seenit right off plain' Ahuya
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That was the 2nd time I had to suffer listening to people with high power friends down in Mass 
