Chebacco Dude Ranch is prepared to offer a unique vacation experience. Our 17th century farmhouse, barn and entertainment center, our modern conveniences and facilities combined with western flavor, will provide a memorable experience. Horseback riding is the main event at the Chebacco Ranch. Wrangler-lead trail rides are available with advanced reservations. Call for brochure and package deals.

Experience beautiful Lake Winnipesaukee from the decks of the Motorship Mount Washington. One of the most scenic cruises in New England. Daytime cruises depart from various ports including Weirs Beach, Wolfeboro, Alton Bay, Center Harbor, and Meredith. In the evening, this 230-foot excursion ship becomes a floating restaurant/nightclub, offering a delicious buffet dinner and dancing to live music. Cruises from late May to late October.

Barnstormers Theatre is a 282 seat building situated in the center of Tamworth. The highlight of the year-round facility's year is an eight-week summer season featuring eight different plays performed by professional actors. It is the oldest summer theater in the country.

Open year round. The Belknap Mill is the oldest unaltered brick textile mill in America and the official meetinghouse of New Hampshire, featuring an industrial knitting machine, exhibits and concerts.

The estate encompasses more than 5,200 acres of the Ossipee Mountains, looking down on Lake Winnipesaukee. Visitors can hike on well-marked mountain trails, picnic at many scenic locations and feed the giant trout at Shannon Pond. Tours include the historic mansion and bottling facility of Castle Springs Premium Mountain spring water.

Services are held each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. from the end of June until the beginning of September. In case of rain, services will be held in the Playhouse at Rockywold-Deephaven Camps. A different minister is featured each week. Those wishing to attend must arrive early as dock space is usually taken by 10 a.m. Those with canoes and kayaks are urged to put them on shore or at docks in the inlet behind the main landing. Offshore moorings are offered and a security boat will ferry worshippers to and from their moored boat. The chapel can be reserved for private services. Those interested should call for more information.

Funspot is the second largest arcade in the country with the largest selection of classic games in the world! Choose from video games, pinball's, skee-ball, bowler-roller, joker-poker, kiddie rides, kiddie bumper cars and more. Bowl a string on your choice of either ten pin or candlepin lanes. Eat at the Braggin' Dragon Restaurant. The arcade also includes Miniature golf course and driving range. Cash bingo. Open year-round, seven days a week.

Gunstock has everything from mountain biking, in-line skating, and mountain-boarding to paddleboats and kayaks. It also has a full slope side terrain park. Children can try their hand at fishing or go for a hike along the wetlands boardwalk. Kids can also enjoy a variety of camps.

Hampshire Pewter offers free guided tours of the factory, where the fine art of hand casting pewter is practiced. Visitors can watch liquid pewter being poured into heavy bronze molds, or see a fine piece of Hampshire Pewter finished.

The Gertrude Keith Hoyt and Edward Eaton Hoyt, Jr. Wildlife Sanctuary is being managed by the ASNH to protect and preserve its natural diversity of flora, fauna, and interesting geological features. Berries and browse attract several species of mammals, including whitetail deer, moose, black bear, porcupine, and beaver. Birds, from black-throated blue warbler to great blue heron and pileated woodpecker to eastern wood pewee, can be seen here. The carnivorous pitcher plant and the delicate rose pogonia nod in the lowest bog, while majestic white pine and rattlesnake plantain orchid can be found atop the highest esker. ASNH sanctuaries are open to the public free of charge.

Directions: From the junction of Rts. 25 & 153 in Effingham Falls, go north (towards Conway) on Rt. 153 for 5.3 miles to the junction with Horseleg Hill Road. The sanctuary is on the southeast corner of Purity Lake. Parking and trailhead are at the sign.

A three acre garden at western vista of The Holderness Inn. The garden includes ferns, a butterfly garden, and a selection of shrubs and flowers adapted to the northern New England climate. Visitors can sit on the Inn's shaded patio, take the stone steps from one terrace level to the other, or sit in the shade of a wood archway.

Open 6 days a week year-round and 7 days a week from July 1st to Columbus Day. Come learn about the wonders of New Hampshire's environment and wildlife. Admission is free.

The nature center at Paradise Point and the Audubon Nature Store at the Hebron Marsh Sanctuary are open daily, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., from July 1 to September 1. The store is open 1-4 p.m. on Sundays. Sanctuary trails are open dawn to dusk year-round. Natural history program and library also offered.

Amazing series of caves and passages formed by the falling of massive boulders nearly 50,000 years ago as the third continental glacier moved southward over New Hampshire's White Mountains. Explore the Rock Garden, a jumble of glacially deposited granite boulders and take a self-guided tour of the caves. Open daily, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., early May to late October, weather permitting.

Open year round. Environmental education center offering ecology-related programs for children and adults.

Tucked above the shores of Squam Lake, Proctor Wildlife Sanctuary in Centre Harbor is an excellent example of second generation woodlands. The entire 47 acres is covered with a good mix of white pine, red oak, yellow birch, beech, maples, and even a few black oaks. Two quiet streams meander through much of the property with trillium and partridge berries growing near their banks. ASNH sanctuaries are open to the public free of charge.

Directions: From the lights at the junction of Routes 25 and 25B in the middle of Centre Harbor, go north on 25B 1.1 miles. Take a right onto Centre Harbor Neck Road and travel for 1 mile. Look for ASNH trailhead sign on left; park in "pulloff" across from sign.

If you're wild about New Hampshire wildlife, the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center is the place to visit! From bears to bobcats, owls to otters, this natural science center provides everyone with an opportunity to see wildlife close up and learn about their habitats. Open Daily, May 1 through November 1

Barefoot Action Lagoon for the smaller members for the family. The Kiddies's Slides for the beginners and pre-teens who want just the right amount of action but not too much. The Spray Ground where kids and adults can create different water effects. Take the Crazy River and cascade down the rapids in a special inner tube through twists and turns to a soft landing in the temperature-controlled pool. Hurricane and Tornado turn daylight into a brilliant blue flash as you ride inside a translucent Plexiglas tube. Family members can also ride the waves in the park's giant Wave Pool.

This 200+ acre woodland on the Ossipee River is a gift of Patricia and Charles Watts II, in memory of his parents. The area is largely composed of mixed forest with wooded swamp interspersed. Wildlife openings left from previous forest management, and wetland areas associated with a stream and the Ossipee River system provide an interesting diversity of habitats for creatures such as river otter, beaver, waterfowl, and the pileated woodpecker. ASNH sanctuaries are open to the public free of charge.

Directions: From the junction of Routes 16 & 25 east in Center Ossipee, go east on Route 25. After Route 25 joins Route 153, continue one mile, then bear right at the fork onto Route 153 south. Go just over a mile to the parking area and trailhead sign, on the left just past the fields.

Enjoy the high-speed thrills of the Pipeline Express or try the longest twisting, curving and splashing water slide in New England. The Super Slide goes in and out of "a Mountain." There is also a "challenging" miniature golf course. There's no charge for spectators. Open mid-June through Labor Day.

Get an up close and personal view of the lake. See the islands, go through the narrows of "Sally's Gut" and around the mansions of Governors Island. Also offering dock to dock taxi service. The season runs from Memorial Day Weekend through October.

Train rides along the lake shore on restored railroad coaches, pulled by an early period diesel engine. Board at Weirs Beach or Meredith. Leaving every hour on the hour from Weirs Beach starting at 11 a.m. and continuing into the evening. Open weekends starting Memorial Day through June, then daily through Labor Day, then weekends through Columbus Day weekend. One-hour runs only from Weirs Beach. Two-hour runs from Meredith and Weirs Beach. Picnic lunch and ice cream parlor available on train. Also available, group rates, fine dining, sun tan specials, and fall foliage specials.