Bartlett Beach — Attraction in Laconia

The beach was great until a group of local homeless showed up all were mostly intoxicated, which Is fine if you keep to yourself. We chose a table in the shade because we had young children. Everything was fine until a homeless completely entoxicaint man became belligerent, started swearing and was told to leave out of this large homeless group. After about 35 min another 4 men completely emaciated, dirty and homeless came off the wow trail, these guys were drunk. One almost fell on my one year old. One of the men out of the group decides to pick a fight with the first guy that left the group in the middle of the beach, mind you there are about 20-30 families there. Near my table this man in his 40s stumbling and reeking of cigarettes and cheap booze says something to a friend who was with us. She said move along there are families here. He starts a fight with her calling her name's and eventually leads to telling her that he's going to beat her up. We finally had enough and call the cops, while this guy stumbles around swearing and being a jerk, there is a full fist fight in the middle of the beach between 2 women one who's homeless, the city needs to do something about the homeless population and how they think they own the rights to the beach and they patrol the beach this is pretty ridiculous you can't just come down here and have a good day with your family without running into a bunch of drunks that live in the woods. if there was more police presence may be a bike cop that would come down in the afternoon I feel it would be a better beach. the beach itself has cleaned up a lot in the past few years it is not as dirty anymore the playground is nice and there's...

There needs to be a serious clean up and fix made to this beach. It has a bad rep on finding needles in the sand thanks to the local drug addicts that don't have any respect for the fellow beach goers and children of the town. Besides that the "park".. Come on really? I feel like someone's kids gonna get hepatitis from the rusted swings or break one of the ropes on the tower thing fall and crack open their skull or worse. Its got potential come on city of Laconia! Make it a project...

Went with my three young kids. The trash bins were completely overfilled and trash was all over the place. We also witnessed a couple searching for something and acting odd when we arrived, didn't think much of it. But after a few moments they beelined for us and about 2 feet from were we had been standing was a glass pipe of some kind, they picked it up and stated they were cleaning up trash and walked away, leaving everything but the pipe behind. Won't be...