The results of ten sampling events during the summer of 2018 show that the water quality of Chocorua Lake this past year was outstanding, falling within the “oligotrophic/excellent” range for fresh water lakes in New Hampshire.
Thank you to everyone who supported the Timeless Chocorua capital campaign!
Chocorua Lake Basin Historic District
The Legend of Chief Chocorua
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.
