Newfound Lake at Wellington
— — the half-mile of sand the rest of New Hampshire doesn't have.
Not only on a wall.
“The half-mile crescent of sand on the west shore of Newfound Lake is the longest freshwater swimming beach in any New Hampshire state park. The lake itself is one of the cleanest in the world, fed by underground springs as well as the streams off Mount Cardigan. The water carries a particular cold, the kind that goes quiet after the third minute. Most of the cars in the lot are from one town over.
Newfound Lake at Wellington, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Wellington State Park sits on the west shore of Newfound Lake in the town of Bristol, central New Hampshire, about thirty miles north of Concord. The park covers 204 acres and holds a half-mile crescent of natural sand beach, the longest freshwater swimming beach in the New Hampshire state park system. Newfound Lake itself is roughly 4,106 acres and 183 feet deep at its deepest point, one of the deepest lakes in the state. The lake drains south via the Newfound River into the Pemigewasset.
Newfound is fed in significant part by underground springs as well as surface streams off Mount Cardigan and the Sculptured Rocks area to the north. The Newfound Lake Region Association lists it among the cleanest lakes in the world by water-quality measure, with summer transparency frequently above ten meters. The lake holds landlocked salmon, lake trout, and rainbow smelt. It typically freezes by mid-to-late December and ice-out arrives by mid-April. Cottage development is limited compared to Winnipesaukee, twenty miles east.
The Wellington beach is open from late May through Columbus Day weekend, with day-use parking that fills by mid-morning on summer Saturdays. Water temperature climbs into the low seventies Fahrenheit in late July and August and is back into the fifties by mid-September, when the crowds are gone and the maples around the parking lot start turning. The hemlock and pine on the point hold their colour through every season. The hiking trail to the Elwell Picnic Area on the southern point adds about a mile each way.