Dolly Copp campground, in New Hampshire's White Mountain National Forest, is in this category. Dolly Emery Copp (1807-1891) and her husband Hayes settled in the area known as Dolly Copp campground in the early 19th century. Making a success of farming in New Hampshire wasn't easy and the legend is that after a road was built beside their farm in 1851, the Copps established an unlicensed inn to supplement their income.
Dolly soon became known for friendliness and her homemaking skills, providing guests with "good food and comfortable beds." Stories about Dolly vary somewhat but the campground built on her farmland has, over the many years, grown since those first visitors camped there some 150 years ago and enjoyed her hospitality.
Today, Dolly Copp campground has 175 campsites in 12 loops and four spurs stretching along the Peabody River and bisected by Culhane Brook. Okay, there are no hookups for RVs and the toilets are vaults, but the campsites are spacious, the woodland scenery breathtaking, and the Daniel Webster Scout trail provides access to a network of trails in the Great Gulf Wilderness. And it's only about five miles to the top of Mt. Washington, an attraction since 1887.
Dolly would be proud her hospitality in the New Hampshire wilderness is memorialized as a delightful family campground.
Suzi Dow and her husband Fred operate the excellent website Forest Camping.
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