135 Sunrise Drive, Moultonborough, Waterfront on Lake Winnipesaukee

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ife on the lake • 135 Sunrise Drive, Moultonborough, New Hampshire

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When you are looking for the classic

lake

house

on

Lake

Winnipesaukee, you are lucky to have a white sandy beach, great view, quality home. A bonus is to find one under a million and with very low taxes to boot. Look no further. This house has been in the family since the father built it in the 70s.

Generations of one family have built life long memories here.

The stone wall in the front yard is 3 feet thick laid stone by stone. The surrounding trees were planted as saplings by the kids and now they tower over 20 feet high. The house has special details only a proud owner would do including a fanned siding design and hand scrolled facia board on the gable ends. You are 10 feet from water's edge and a spectacular long view. It is now time to to pass the torch to a new generation of families. Located in the Balmoral Community including a large beach clubhouse, tennis courts, playground and boat launch. Life is good here!.

Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire

Panorama of Lake Winnipesaukee from summit of Mount Major.

Rattlesnake Island in the Broads of Lake Winnipesaukee

Lake Winnipesaukee is the largest lake in New Hampshire at over 44,000 acres and 200 feet deep surrounded by mountain vistas and the best that Mother Nature can provide. It encompasses the towns of Alton, Gilford, Laconia, Meredith, Center Harbor, Moultonborough, Tuftonboro and Wolfeboro. Each town has its own amenities and personality, all connected by the natural Luxury Estate on the Big Lake splendor of “The Big Lake”.

You will find some of the most valuable waterfront homes in the State on the 180 miles of shoreline, though by comparison to properties in surrounding states, the value is clear. The lake is a boating, fishing, scuba diving and water enthusiasts paradise. From late May to October, the MS Mount Washington, dating back to 1872 and today carries over 60,000 passengers a season with daily excursions and dinner cruises.

In the winter you will find some of the most unique “Bob Houses” dotting the icescape. Snowmobile trails criss cross the lake all the way to the Canadian border. You are in the heart of the best skiing in all of New England. Alton Bay has the the country's only FAA designated iceport on the frozen ice on Alton Bay. Winnipesaukee and the surrounding lakes make up what is known as the Lakes Region. The area was the inspiration and

MS Mount Washington c 1872 and today.

backdrop for the movie “On Golden Pond” screenplay written by New Hampshire native Ernest Thompson staring Henry and Jane Fonda and Katharine Hepburn. Other movies included “What about Bob”with Bill Murray, ’Click” with Adam Sandler and referenced to it in Three Stooges 1940 short "No Census, No Feeling", Lake Winnipesaukee History.

It is an unusual glacial Lake that reversed flow from going toward the ocean to the direction of the Merrimack River. Early explorers came to Laconia in the 1600’s hoping the rivers would lead to Lake Champlain and the Great Lakes. Native Americans name Alton Bay Iceport Winnipesaukee means either "Smile of the Great Spirit" or "Beautiful Water in a High Place." At the outlet of the Winnipesaukee River, the Winnipesaukee Indians, a subtribe of the Pennacook, lived and fished at a village called Acquadocton. Today, the site is called The Weirs, Lake Winnipesaukee Firsts.

• Center Harbor witnessed the first intercollegiate sporting event in the US when Harvard defeated Yale in the first Harvard-Yale Regatta on August 3, 1852.

• The M/V Sophie C, is the oldest, and one of only two currently operating floating United States Postal Service floating post offices since 1892.

• Alton Bay has the country's Wolfeboro Bay boating only FAA designated iceport on the frozen ice on Alton Bay. Lake Winnipesaukee • “Ice Out” contest is an annual • Lake Winnipesaukee is the event where people guess the largest lake in NH, 44,000 ac. date that the Mount Washington • Third largest in New England. can reach all of its ports, There • 21 miles long and ranges from 1 to 9 miles wide. are records since 1851 • 72 square miles.

• French President Sarkozy spent • Maximum depth of 212 feet. his first US vacation in Wolfeboro.

• 182 miles of shoreland.

• Wolfeboro is Americas Oldest • 63 miles to drive around lake.

Summer Resort.

• There are at least 253 islands.

Balmoral is a full service lake community complete with a very large sandy beach with boat launch, picnic areas, swimming area and parking, a community center with playground and tennis courts.

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