{"id":458,"date":"2013-05-24T10:20:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T10:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=458"},"modified":"2015-12-28T08:31:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T13:31:26","slug":"the-basin-in-franconia-n-h-is-a-pothole-worth-seeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy the Swirling Waters of The Basin in Franconia Notch State Park, N.H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iftD8Njz-VU\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nI could stay at the Basin in Franconia Notch State Park, N.H., all day &#8212; it was that way as a kid and still is to this very day.<\/p>\n<p>This free, beloved White Mountains of New Hampshire family travel destination features a huge granite pothole, 20 feet in diameter, eroded into a large block of granite by the Pemigewasset River. It&#8217;s nice to see the swirling waters in the Basin, the bridges and various textures of the water along the way and the\u00a0walking paths eventually rising to the top of the waterfall with scenic rural White Mountains views. Although quite popular in the summer, the Basin always feels like your own discovery and the fresh mountain air, refreshing sounds of the water, scenic forest and birds happily chirping add up to a natural package that&#8217;s hard to leave. It becomes quite clear at The Basin that life&#8217;s simplest pleasures have often been created through the genius of Mother Nature!<\/p>\n<p><em>The Basin<br \/>\nExit 34A off Interstate 93<br \/>\nFranconia Notch State Park<br \/>\nFranconia, NH<\/em><br \/>\n603-745&#8211;8391<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related cheap travel New Hampshire articles:<\/strong>:<br \/>\nVisiting <a href=\"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=2416\">Echo Lake State Beach in Franconia Notch State Park<\/a><br \/>\nA timeless\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/road-trip-white-mountains-new-hampshire.html\">White Mountains family road trip<\/a>.<br \/>\nMake <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitingnewengland.com\/hotels\/us-nh-franconia.html\" target=\"_blank\">hotel reservations in Franconia NH<\/a> at the lowest available rate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could stay at the Basin in Franconia Notch State Park, N.H., all day &#8212; it was that way as a kid and still is to this very day. This free, beloved White Mountains of New Hampshire family travel destination features a huge granite pothole, 20 feet in diameter, eroded into a large block of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2436,245,276,251,271],"tags":[2284,2283,2281,2282,2285],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6084,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/6084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}