---
template: byway.jade
id: "2252"
name: Lake Sunapee Scenic Byway
distance: "25"
duration: Allow two hours.
description: "This 25-mile route runs with Lake Sunapee through sleepy countryside, verdant farmland, tidy villages, vibrant towns, and by Mt. Sunapee, a favorite recreational spot."
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websites: 
  - url: "http://www.nh.gov/dot/programs/scbp/tours/sunapee.htm"
    name: "Lake Sunapee Scenic Byway (NH-DOT)"
  - url: "http://www.visitnh.gov/"
    name: "Visit New Hampshire!"
designations: 
  - New Hampshire State Scenic Byway
states: 
  - NH
ll: 
  - -71.94930000000001
  - 43.26262727272727
bounds: 
  - - -72.08815454545454
    - 43.26262727272727
  - - -71.94930000000001
    - 43.43188181818182

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This 25-mile route runs with Lake Sunapee through sleepy countryside, verdant farmland, tidy villages, vibrant towns, and by Mt. Sunapee, a favorite recreational spot.

Lake Sunapee is also a preferred recreational area and a destination unto itself. Lake Sunapee is known as one of the cleanest lakes in the state; residents take pride in its exceptional water quality and beauty. You will be pleased with the boating, biking, swimming, snowmobiling, downhill and cross-country skiing, ice-boating, and maple-sugaring in the lake and its region.