No fee to visit and use: Lake Winnipesaukee beach rights, all around, for everyone, not restricted to Meredith people but includes everyone, including even you; possesses a beautiful soft sand beach, and swimming area, with big lake & mountain views, beach and forest waterfront area.
Leavitt Beach: Meredith Parks & Recreation Dept, about one mile off Route 25, just north, beyond the sign for
www.scbnh.org ... at the curve, down Veasey Shore Rd, and not far from the Meredith-Center Harbor line
Beach, picnic area, barbeque, playground, public kayak/canoe launch, public rest room
Open: 10-am to 6-pm, June 24 - August 26
Winter: snowmobile lake access; park your trailer and ride the lake
A large chain link rolling gate that gets rolled across the two-lane paved entry road keeps cars out of the beach area when it's closed. Not too sure about this ... trying to recall ...believe the dirt parking lot and kayak access road is accessible even when the big gate has been rolled closed....so's one can park and walk to the beach.....or launch a kayak....or drive a snowmobile any time when that big gate is closed up? No doubt, the Meredith Police Dept is probably very familiar with Leavitt's Beach.
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The few times I've visited Leavitt Beach, it has always been empty of any people, which has been a bit of a surprise considering how nice a beach it is. Does Leavitt Beach ever see any big use? The kayak launch, a narrow dirt road of maybe 100-yards length, is a narrow, elevated, single lane, dirt road that winds through a wooded wetlands area with almost no room to turn your car around once you get down to the sandy shoreline where you unload your kayak or canoe.
Pay money for beach rights?..... no-way buddy! ..... this Leavitt Beach is my type of a price ..... no fee for anyone to use... courtesy the Meredith property tax payer!
Now, if only the five mile long Meredith Neck Rd was supported by the local property tax as opposed to the State of NH .... it would not make you feel you are driving .... the road to Hell ..... kaboom?.... oops .... must have hit another pot hole! Such a beautiful public town beach ...... Leavitt Beach .... and such a crappy-wappy, State of NH, un-numbered town road ... all in the same town.....so go figure! ... the Meredith Neck Rd, a highly used, c.5-mile length, local road within Meredith? So's does anyone know....how come the State of NH owns the Meredith Neck Rd? ..... as opposed to the Town of Meredith? .... what's the 200-year history for this odd-ball ownership?.....like, so why does the State own it when they seem to have abandoned it?