Directly across from Sawyer's Jewelry in Laconia, and close to Laconia City Hall, with free on street parking right there, the City has a concrete ramp, kayak/canoe/sup launch that slopes down to the Winnipesaukee River for easy launching from a smooth, sandy, shallow bend area in the river just before the river flows under a low road bridge. Is about 40-yards below the Avery Dam, and this time of year the dam outflow is usually zero. Can paddle the Winnipesaukee River through the City of Laconia, past Irwin Ford Toyota, the Laconia Police Station (wave as you paddle by), Belknap Marina and out to huge Lake Winnisquam which has a public sandy beach on the left. Winnipesaukee River continues through and beyond huge Lake Winnisquam, through Belmont, Tilton to Franklin where it joins the Pemigewasset River and becomes the Merrimack River that goes to the atlantic ocean in Newburyport, Mass.
A spot to re-launch or remove is the Fish & Game boat launch behind the Boulia Gourell Lumber in Laconia across the river from Belknap Marina, and Lake Winnisquam ..... plus you can paddle out to big Lake Winnisquam, hit the beach there on the left, then turn around and paddle back to the F & G state boat launch where you left either a car or a bicycle.
Is an urban river here, lots of homes, roads, bridges, old stone wall embankment walls with plenty to see, paddle, fish in extremely clean, slow class-1 water and there's almost no one else out there, on the Winnipesaukee River. Is probably very empty of paddlers and boats while above Lake Winnisquam.
Winnipesaukee River is the single outflow from Lake Winnipesaukee and the outflow in April is big white water, but now in September it is quiet. Fisherman catch either smallies or trout/salmon depending on the water temp.
Why ....... a-way back in 1909 ........ L L Bean himself used to go fly fishing for smallies from a canoe right here on the Winnipesaukee River cause this fishing here was such a hidden hot spot ....... no fool'n!
.... and, it still is today.