Admission is $4 for adults; $2 for children ages 6-11; children ages 5 and under and NH residents age 65 and over are admitted free. Season passes are available. When the park is unstaffed during the season, please use Iron Ranger (self-serve pay station).

Echo Lake State Park has a beach and picnic area. Several hiking trails originate in the park including a scenic trail around the lake and others that lead to Cathedral Ledge State Park where views of the Saco River Valley are spectacular.

Echo Lake State Park is nestled in the shadow of White Horse Ledge on the outskirts of North Conway. At the lake are a bathhouse, swimming, and picnic tables. A mile-long auto road leads to the top of the nearby 700-foot Cathedral Ledge. Both White Horse Ledge and Cathedral Ledge have gradual slopes up their western flanks, with sheer drops of bare rock, scraped clean by former glaciers, to the east.

The park is open on weekends starting Memorial Day and daily from late June to Labor Day. Park hours are 9:00 am to 6:00 pm with gates closing at 8:00 pm. No camping is allowed at Echo Lake State Park but camping is available at two other state parks in the area.

In 1899 twenty-two visitors and residents from Center Conway to Jackson raised $1000 and bought the land Cathedral Ledge is on. A year later the same was done for White Horse Ledge. The property was then deeded to the state. In 1943 commercial development was planned for the lake. The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests joined with the state to raise funds to buy the property, thus protecting it. Today Cathedral, White Horse, and Echo Lake lie within the boundaries and jurisdiction of Echo Lake State Park.

A scenic trail around the lake gives views of both ledges. At the top, the view faces eastward across Saco River Valley to the White Mountains. Both ledges can also be reached by hiking trails. Experienced rock climbers ascend the naked rock face and rappel down into the valley. Winter mountaineering techniques are practiced in season.

Around the lake, 1 mile
Bryce Path to the top of Cathedral, 1.2 miles
White Horse Ledge Loop, 4.2 miles
All state park trails are blazed in yellow. Red and blue blazes are boundary markers and are not state-maintained trails.

The AllTrails website has descriptions and maps of hikes at Echo Lake State Park.