Covered Bridge Campground Albany NH

Our First Work Camping Job

We started looking for our first workamping job at workamper news.  We decided to stay near NH as we still had our home.  We were contacted by Jan Berthiaume who was the manager for Pro Sports INC. a concessioner that operates the campgrounds in the White Mountain National Forest in Albany NH.

Covered Bridge Campground

Covered Bridge Campground

Covered Bridge Campground

After a telephone interview, we accepted a job as the lead couple at the Covered Bridge Campground in Albany NH.  Our campground has 49 sites.   We have vault toilets and hand water pumps and no hookups.  Our rule sheet has 17 rules provided by the US Forest Service.  Our job is to collect money, remind campers of the rules, clean sites, bathrooms, and assist and educate campers. We also had firewood for sale.  Sometimes there may have been a bear to chase.

We hauled our water from a spring in the golf cart.  They provided a 150 lb propane tank for cooking, heat, and Refrigeration.  We used a Honda 2000 generator for electricity and dumped our sewer into the vault toilets.  We had an endless supply of firewood and spent most nights sitting and cooking at our campfire.  It was just a short walk to the swift river for fresh trout and an afternoon swim.  This was one of the best times of our lifestyle.

Swift River Covered Bridge

Burger on cherry wood and dutch oven apple pie

Swift River, Albany, NH

We were located off the Kancamagus highway across the covered bridge on Passoconoway road.  We still have many good friends we met in our 3 years here.   Over the years here we would arrive in April and help open the 5 campgrounds on the Conway side.   This would involve removing hazard trees, clearing and chipping down limbs, and blowing roads and sites and cleaning bathrooms.  This was hard work but very rewarding. When we would first arrive we would stay at Blackberry Crossing Campground on the Kanck and sometimes we got snow.

Blackberry Crossing Campground

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