The trail on CLC’s Charlotte C. Browne Memorial Woods provides a moderate walk through fields, uplands, and along the edges of the Chocorua River before looping back through the woods and past a giant glacial erratic.
2019 Fall Newsletter
Download a copy of our 2019 fall newsletter here. This issue is all about stewardship! And a few other things—the phantom crane fly, thank yous to dedicated board members as they retire, Chocorua Lake Basin project updates, and more.
Chocorua? There's an app for that!
Thanks to Cornell geology professor Rick Allmendinger, iPhone and iPad owners can now experience the Chocorua Lake basin and trails with our new Chocorua Map app for iOS mobile devices.
NH painter Byron Carr donates two paintings to the Chocorua Lake Conservancy!
Trout Surveying in Allen Brook, CLC Scott Reserve
Online auction of beautiful Chocorua painting by Byron Carr!
Artist Byron Carr of Contoocook, NH, has generously donated to the CLC two gorgeous, framed oil paintings of the Chocorua Lake Basin, with Mount Chocorua in the background. Visit our online auction to bid on the larger (24x30) of the two paintings.
2019 Spring Newsletter
Chocorua Lake Basin Historic District
Chocorua Redux: Revisionist History of a Name
While local legend, created by white colonists and their descendants, has it that Mount Chocorua was named for a Native American Chief Chocorua, historical evidence does not support the legend or the notion that the mountain is named for any person. Historian Mary Ellen Lepionka has written extensively about this, using historical evidence to debunk the myth, and etymology to speculate about where Chocorua may have gotten its name.
