Dianas Baths

Dianas Baths is a 16-foot tiered in New Hampshire, on Lucy Brook.

It's fullest after rain, and flow can drop off during dry spells — plan around recent weather.

Plungeworthy rates Dianas Baths 5.9/10 — worth a detour. The score weighs its scale, how confidently it's mapped, and its character.

Diana's Baths isn't a single waterfall — it's a 400-foot run of Lucy Brook stepping down through eight or nine ledges and potholes, the largest drop about 15 feet, with roughly 75 feet of total descent. The result is a natural water garden: shallow basins, smooth granite, and small chutes that families wade through all summer.

It's the White Mountains' most family-friendly water feature by a wide margin — an ADA-accessible path with benches leads to the lower baths, and the site absorbs big crowds without feeling like a theme park.

The site is an old mill property; foundations and sluiceway remnants from the 1800s still sit alongside the brook, giving it a layer of history most swimming spots lack.

Peak season is summer — the baths function as North Conway's swimming hole and the lot fills by mid-morning on hot weekends. Spring gives the strongest flow; winter turns the ledges into ice sculpture and the fee site stays open.