About

Located in the Town of Wakefield, NH, within Carroll County, Pine River Pond is a 570 acre pond sitting at the headwaters of the Pine River, which flows northwest into Ossipee Lake. PRP is about 3.6 miles in length and 0.6 miles at its widest with about 12.2 miles of shoreline. Its deepest spot is 55 feet. 

The water level is controlled by the Arthur Fox Dam originally built in the 1920’s and rebuilt in 1977 to the structure shown to the left. In 2025 the NHDES Dam Bureau reconstructed the dam installing an electronically-controlled gate, and reinforcing crest and downstream embankments . The dam is owned and maintained by the State of NH, and the yearly drawdown is approximately 8 feet to Pine River Pond’s natural high water mark.

Pine River Pond is part of the Saco Watershed whose headwaters flow from the White Mountains of NH to the Biddeford/Saco, ME area, and empty into the Gulf of Maine. The PRP Association participates in the NH Lay Lakes Monitoring Program, and water quality reports can be found at here.