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Center Harbor public ten dollar boat ramp-owned by the Town of Center Harbor on the NORTHERN side of Lake Winnipesaukee: Price to launch; ten dollars when attendant at the hot dog & soda cart is present, otherwise it appears to be a freebie unless a lifeguard runs over from the town beach to collect the ten bucks.

Toilets nearby at town beach.

Parking for car & trailer about 1/8 mile up the hill beyond the Coe House restaurant in the dirt parking lot up back that belongs to Heath's supermarket. Check out the day old sandwiches at Heath's for 1.99, reg 4.49, and the day old baked goods rack in the back of the store which usually has four big homemade muffins for 2.00, reg 4.00.

Since 2009 when Ames Farm Inn in Gilford became closed to day use trailer-boaters, the Center Harbor boat launch has been used a few times as a starting place for bass tournaments and they seem to like it because they continue to come back and use it.

Directions from Route 93: To avoid the NASTY MEREDITH traffic backups, take Rt 93-Exit 24 onto Route 25-3 EAST through Ashland-Holderness-Center Harbor for about ten miles, take a LEFT onto Rt 25-B and proceed for about four miles up and down some steep hills until you arrive at the intersection of Rt 25-B and Rt 25 in Center Harbor which is close to the bright red entrance of Heath's Hardware store and the town boat launch which is down the hill behind Heath's Hardware. Heath's has a lot of boat items plus freebie hardware store cup-of-coffee.
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Paid with your boat registration money over the last ten years, the State of NH has constructed free-to-use state boat launches complete with double ramps, loading docks, toilets, and trailer parking lots at the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th largest NH lakes: Lakes Squam, Winnisquam and Newfound. Lake Winnipesaukee has no similar State of NH boat launch facility YET and trailer-boaters depend on about 25 different town and private marina boat launches.

For example, the City of Laconia has no city owned Lake Winnipesaukee boat launch even though "City of the Lakes" is printed onto every city vehicle and Laconia paper letterhead. Laconia has maybe five different private marina boats launches but no City of Laconia public boat ramp. Ditto this for the State of New Hampshire and access to 72-square mile Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire's biggest lake, which legally belongs to the people of New Hampshire. So, while the waters on Lake Winnipesaukee belongs to the people, getting a state owned boat launch constructed with boat registration money is somewhere off in the future?