Location: Waterville Valley Area < New Hampshire < USA
Car: necessary
Year-round activities include downhill and cross-country skiing, skating, hiking, swimming in pristine mountain lakes, golf, canoeing, rafting, biking, outlet shopping, sight-seeing, etc. Clarke's Trading Post, Boulder Caves, and The Whales Tale Waterpark are nearby. StoryLand, a very popular amusement park for kids, and outlet shopping are about an hour away.
The house is about ten minutes from Waterville Valley, a resort town rated in the top ten vacation spots for families for its wonderful town square with great stores and restaurants, ski area, beach and pond with paddle boats, ice arena, activities, etc. It is also only 15-20 minutes from Loon, Cannon, and Tenney Mountain and an easy 2 hour drive from Boston and Central Mass.