Ramblewood Campground and Cabins
Pittsburg, New Hampshire
There aren’t a lot of places in the Northeast you can camp with your horses. Ramblewood used to be a ranch forty years ago. Now it is a campground and the owners welcome horses.
There are four or five campsites located next to a lower field where you are allowed to set up corrals or electric fences.
The view from the campsite is simply spectacular. Ari enjoyed sitting in a lounge chair and just soaking in the scenery.
Their maintenance guy, Robert, is in charge of creating and maintaining the trails. Unfortunately, Robert is not an equestrian.
Our choices were snowmobile trails which are wide and boring or technical trails.
There is signage for the trails, but the trail maps provided were not easy to read. Gaia showed some trails and not others.
The technical trails are meant for hikers. We were threading our horses between trees and through brush.
The technical trails had steep up and down sections, water crossings, rocks, tree roots, and large holes. Robert had put down narrow boards on some sections so hikers wouldn’t get their hiking boots wet, but the narrow boards were dangerous for our horses as they weren’t wide enough for a horse and easily broken. At one point, my horse slipped on a muddy ledge and fell on his side. I was able to roll out of the way in time, so my horse didn’t land on me, but I was not happy to be covered in mud. Luckily, neither the horse or I was injured. If you are looking for a challenge, these trails would be it. It would be great if the Back Country Horsemen came in and improved the trails for equestrians.
We were only 12 miles from the Canadian border, so we decided to pop into Quebec and visit the Parc de la Gorge. This is the longest suspension foot bridge in the world.
It is quite beautiful and we enjoyed our brief time in Quebec. Everyone speaks French and most of the signs are in English and French.
The Parc had set up a light display in the forest so they could sell tours to people at dusk.
They even provided a back story for the lights.
There weren’t any grocery stores near the campground, so we stopped at an IGA grocery before we crossed the border just to pick up a few items - eggs, orange juice, milk, and bread. But, when we hit the border crossing to get back into the United States, the border guard confiscated our eggs due to avian flu. Really? The FDA says there is no evidence that eating eggs or even touching eggs transmits the avian flu. The guard said he also would have confiscated any poultry if we had purchased that. I suppose we are lucky they didn’t take the milk I had purchased.