Norcross Ponds camping

[kamoore63]

Howdy, folks. I'm wondering if anyone has ever explored campsites in the area around Norcross Ponds. As near as I can tell from the AMC map, it falls outside of the Nancy Brook Scenic Area so I assume camping isn't banned altogether. However, in my one hike past there about eight years ago, I don't recall seeing anything other than one site with a no camping sign.

Thanks,
Keith

 

[Lizzy]

I know one camping spot.....

If you bang a right at the "no camping" sign (right before the beaver dam), that is the start of the Mt. Nancy "herd path". Go up that a couple hundred feet and you will come to a small clearing with two paths forking off the far end. The left fork is the continuation of the herd path. Take the right fork, and it will dead-end in a couple more hundred feet into a small clearing. There is room there for two tents, and there is a nice fire pit set up against a big boulder that throws some pretty good heat. All in all, I'd say it's about 500 ft from the nearest "official" trail.

That's really the only spot around there I know of that would be legal (I think).

 

[NH_Mtn_Hiker]

If you bang a right at the "no camping" sign (right before the beaver dam), that is the start of the Mt. Nancy "herd path". Go up that a couple hundred feet and you will come to a small clearing with two paths forking off the far end. The left fork is the continuation of the herd path. Take the right fork, and it will dead-end in a couple more hundred feet into a small clearing. There is room there for two tents, and there is a nice fire pit set up against a big boulder that throws some pretty good heat. All in all, I'd say it's about 500 ft from the nearest "official" trail.

That's really the only spot around there I know of that would be legal (I think).

I'm familiar with that site and as far as I can tell it's perfectly legal.
Here are the rules ...and it's well outside the Nancy Pond Scenic Area.

 

[Bob]

There are other little sites, near the pond but far enough away to be legal. Well hidden (LNT), 'you just gotta poke around'

 

[Stan]

We camped at a hardened site less than 50 yards below Nancy Falls. Nice spot in the summer if you like taking a reaaalllly cold dip in the pool. Careful where you pitch your tent; there's a rivlet that runs through the site during heavy rains.

 

[kamoore63]

Thanks all!