Start from 22 curated places around Meredith, NH, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
George's Diner
A classic neighborhood diner on Plymouth Street that has fed Meredith locals every morning since 1991, earning its reputation on the red flannel hash — a house-made beet-and-corned-beef creation that regulars treat as a non-negotiable order. The omelettes are enormous, the daily specials run to prime rib and chicken pot pie at dinner, and the clientele is a reliable cross-section of the year-round community.
Hart's Turkey Farm Restaurant
A Lakes Region institution in continuous operation since 1954 that treats every day like Thanksgiving — the turkey dinners with gravy, stuffing, and cranberry sauce are what people drive from Manchester for, and the from-scratch kitchen and in-house bakery keep everything properly homemade. The room seats 500 and feels like a proper New England event.
Trails & outdoors
Red Hill Fire Tower Loop Trail
A 3.3-mile loop near Center Harbor that climbs steadily through hardwood forest to a fire tower at the summit of Red Hill, with panoramic views of both Lake Winnipesaukee and Squam Lake on the way up — two of New England's most spectacular lakes visible from a single lookout. The trail passes the ruins of the Horne family homestead and is rated 4.7 stars by more than 1,800 hikers.
Page Pond Community Forest
A 763-acre town forest with a 3.7-mile loop trail through wetlands, beaver ponds, and mixed hardwood forest, crossing a bog bridge beside an active beaver dam and passing the ruins of an 1840 mill. The forest feels genuinely wild for a community trail — osprey work the pond edges, and the beaver engineering visible from the trail is substantial enough to be interesting to all ages.
Things to do
M/S Mount Washington
A 230-foot excursion ship that has been cruising Lake Winnipesaukee since 1872 — the flagship of the fleet and the most iconic way to experience the lake. Scenic daytime cruises visit five ports around the lake; sunset dinner dance cruises feature live bands and a full dinner service on the water. The ship picks up passengers at Meredith on alternating days.
Hermit Woods Winery Live Music
The most intimate concert venue in the Lakes Region operates inside The Loft at Hermit Woods Winery on Main Street — a listening-room space that brings in surprising regional and national acts for seated performances on Thursday through Saturday evenings. Tickets are sold alongside wine and food, and the overall experience is much closer to a private house concert than a bar show.
Landmarks & sights
Mill Falls Marketplace
A beautifully restored 19th-century mill complex right in the center of Meredith village, now hosting the town's most concentrated cluster of restaurants, boutique shops, and the waterfall that gave the complex its name — still visible from the walkways. The Sculpture Walk routes through the marketplace grounds, and the multiple restaurants make it a natural starting point for an evening in Meredith.
Meredith Sculpture Walk
A year-round outdoor sculpture exhibition that has placed 30-plus works of art along Main Street, the Mill Falls Marketplace walkways, and the lakefront parks at Hesky and Scenic Parks — each piece tagged with artist name, hometown, and medium. The whole circuit takes about 30 minutes on foot and covers the most scenic stretch of Meredith Bay with water views throughout.