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Rudy's Cabins and Campground

Clarksville, New Hampshire

Founded 1938 by Rudolph Shatney. Owned and operated by Rudy’s wife and daughter.
“Flyfishing at its Finest”
57 Rudy Lane
Clarksville, NH 03592

[A Cabin]Rudy’s Cabins and Campground is a fifty year old family business quietly nestled in the northern New Hampshire mountains. Our 100 acres with a 30 acre flyfishing pond ensure the solitude and the peace and quiet lacking in today's busy world. Quaint housekeeping cabins, privately situated on the water, make the perfect setting for a relaxed escape.

[The Connecticut River]Rudy’s is not far from all sorts of other activities. We are close to two summer theaters. We are only a short drive from big-lake and river fishing and boating, golf (9 or 18 hole), tennis, beach swimming, moose watching, hiking, and the shops and restaurants of three states and two countries.

[The Lake]

If quality flyfishing is your thing, Rudy’s is the place to be! Our exclusive ownership of Clarksville Pond’s shoreline—along with our electric-motor-only policy—creates the perfect atmosphere. We offer boat rentals for your convenience.

The Camping Experience

[A Trailer]Self contained motor-home and travel trailers are welcome, no matter what size they might be. Our trailer park has a new state-of-the-art septic system and every site has 3-way RV hookups with power, sewer, and water for your added convenience. We have limited facilities for tenting.

[A Cabin]

Rudy’s Cabins and Campground is open on a seasonal basis from Memorial Day weekend through the close of hunting season in November. To make reservations please call (603) 246-3418. Our rates are very reasonable, with special rates offered to families.

How To Find Us

To find Rudy’s Cabins and Campground take your best route to Colebrook, New Hampshire, at the intersection of US Route 3 and NH Route 26.

[The 45th Parallel]In Colebrook turn onto NH Route 145 North (your landmark is Howard’s Restaurant, famous for its pies) and travel about 8.8 miles until you see the sign Rudy’s Cabins and Campground on your right, just past the sign marking the 45th parallel—halfway to the North Pole. [Clarksville School] Another landmark is the old Clarksville Schoolhouse on the left just before Rudy’s sign. Turn right at the sign onto Old County Road, then an immediate left up the hill onto Clarksville Pond Road. In approximately 1.5 miles you will reach the next Rudy’s sign on your left; and you are there.

[Rudy's Sign on Rt. 145] Make your reservations by phone, by post, or by email.

Rudy’s Cabins and Campground
57 Rudy Lane
Clarksville, NH 03592 br>

For more information call

Joan Shatney

John or Kathleen Domanico

(603) 246-3418

Our email: rudyscabins@markosoftplus.net

[Clarksville Pond]Reservations and a two day deposit are required for a one-week stay or longer; a one day deposit for shorter stays.

Hope to see you this summer at Rudy’s

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About the name Rudy’s

From settlement times onward there have always been sporting camps on Clarksville Pond. During the WWII, a local boy put aside enough money to buy the camps. His name was Rudy Shatney, and he was destined to come home a hero.

Twice decorated for valor and awarded the Silver Star for leading his embattled division to safety while severely wounded, Rudy came back from the war ready to make the Clarksville Pond camps a going concern. He and his war-bride Joan improved the camps, provided rustic accommodations and home-cooked meals and offered a Big Woods tenting experience and excellent trout fishing just as the postwar generation was ready to hit the outdoor scene with paid vacations and the means to get there.

Rudy became a legend in his own time, justifiably famed for his ability to run down deer, find game when nobody else could, throw knives and hatchets with unerring accuracy and stand on the gunwales of a canoe to cast 75 feet to a rising trout. A man of medium stature but amazing strength and agility, he could stand on one hand and out-Indian-wrestle anyone he ever locked hands with. He could beat just about anybody at just about anything he ever tried, but always with a smile and never with a mean bone in his body.

He was a dead-reckoning navigator of the woods who thought nothing of traveling through the wilds from Clarksville to Rumford, living off the land as he went. A natural-born carpenter and jack of all trades, he is responsible for the many creative uses of local woods, gnarls and roots one sees in the camps today.

There was never one like him before and there will never be one like him again. Rudy Shatney died in 1992, but his legend, spirit and mark on the people who loved him live on.

—John Harrigan
Editor, Colebrook News & Sentinel

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