[John Mercier]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

So, I stopped in there yesterday after pickleball to take a swim, cool off, and actually take a good look at Leavitt Park Beach.

Found one flattened aluminum 16-oz can of Bud Lite on the lake floor in about four feet water depth, and placed it into a very nice Rubbermaid enclosed trash container as I left the beach. Maybe discarded by some ice fisherman or boater, sometime?

A Meredith facility sticker is required for parking. There were only three cars parked in the unpaved, parking lot, and two of them had stickers plus my Subaru for a fourth car which has a sticker. The one car that did not have a sticker was like a $50,000-car .... a very nice gray Audi suv without a sticker ...... omg ..... call 9-1-1. The parking area probably has room for maybe 30-cars, total.

It's a very nice place to swim because the lake bottom is very smooth and soft with NO rocks in the swim area and way out beyond the swim line to 7' water depth, no rocks, what-so-ever, like zero rocks. Have to wonder if the "no rocks" is natural or were they all removed sometime in the past 80-years or sometime? Walking to the north, out front the 400' of heavily wooded shoreline area in Leavitt Park, the lake bottom becomes rocky and water shoes are probably needed for walking as is frequently the situation in Lake Winnipesaukee.

As kids we would carry them out to deeper water... sometimes stacking them up to the point that we could stand on them.
The raft was always too full.