• 1-4 About
  • 1. About This Site
  • 2. Current DCC Issues
  • 3. Sources
  • 4. Maps and Links
• 5-9 Overview To 1939
  • 5. Historical Setting
  • 6. Early Camping 1900 - 1919
  • 7. Dolly Copp In The 1920s
  • 8. Dolly Copp In The 1930s
  • 9. Early Management And Promo
• 10-12 Overview From 1940
  • 10. Dolly Copp In The 1940s
  • 11. Dolly Copp In The 1950s
  • 12. Dolly Copp After 1960
• 13-20 Landmarks South End
  • 13. Dolly Copp Spring
  • 14. Early Picnic Area
  • 15. Saw Mill, Ranger Station
  • 16. Bridges, Trail, Rangers Pool
  • 17. Administration Building
  • 18. End Loop To Birch Lane
  • 19. Riverside Drive Area
  • 20. Homestead And Memorial
• 21-28 Landmarks North End
  • 21. Imp View Lane
  • 22. Hayes Field Drive Area
  • 23. High Fields, High Woods
  • 24. Brook Loop
  • 25. Culhane Homestead Area
  • 26. Little and Big Meadow
  • 27. Old Gatehouse Area
  • 28. Barnes Field, Entrance
• 29-36 Related Features
  • 29. Hayes And Dolly In Old Age
  • 30. Campers Association
  • 31. Around The Campfire
  • 32. Daniel Webster Trail
  • 33. Culhane Brook
  • 34. Hayes Copp Ski Trail
  • 35. Pine Mountain
  • 36. Bedrock In Vicinity
• 37-47 Galleries
  • 37. Camper Photos 1
  • 38. Camper Photos 2
  • 39. Picnic Area, Fireplace
  • 40. Administration Building
  • 41. View From Knoll
  • 42. Carter Notch
  • 43. Imp Face
  • 44. Swimming Pool
  • 45. Mount Madison
  • 46. Old NH Route 16
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1. ABOUT THIS SITE

Dolly Copp Campground is located in a rural
and rugged section of northern New Hampshire.

This is a hobby site dedicated to preserving the history of Dolly Copp Campground.

Campground visitors can enhance their experience when aware of the colorful history that surrounds their temporary home.

With its large capacity, spacious sites and spectacular White Mountains scenery, Dolly Copp has been for many decades the most popular campground in New England.

Indeed, Dolly Copp Campground is the “Grand Old Lady” of public campgrounds in New Hampshire.

The Campground has a long history. For an overview see the
SHORT SUMMARY OF CAMPGROUND HISTORY

Campground layout and vicinity. See
wider view and detail. Then rise above to see
the relationship to the nearby Presidential Range.

 

Dolly Copp as a nearby attraction on
a 2009 Gorham, NH tourist brochure.

NH Route 16 at lower left, Peabody River in foreground,
with Dolly Copp Campground adjacent to west.

Saturday evening program at Dolly Copp Visitors Center.

 

Leisure time: catching up with family and friends.

The resources of this web site are organized into five sections as follows:

ABOUT: pages 1-4.

TIME LINE: page 5-12 consider the whole Campground decade by decade.

LANDMARKS: pages 13-28 provide historic details on each section, south to north.

RELATED FEATURES: pages 29-36.

GALLERIES: pages 37-47.

Your webmaster - host is Jonathan Chew of Beacon Falls, Connecticut. I have been a Dolly Copp camper since 1962. When you see the many sources and contributors you will be aware this site is very much a group effort.

I appreciate site chat, old photos, etc. and can be reached at dandjchew@hotmail.com.

 

Major site contributor Scott McClory
with wife Jennifer in 2008.

 

Dolly and Jon Chew in October of 2008

 

Dolly Copp is kid friendly!

 

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