Services like the US Forest Service have a tendency to revise their regulations from year to year, and to reorganize their websites just as often. This makes it difficult to keep all the links on a website like Summitpost up-to-date. So, my plan is to have a handful of the most important links for the White Mountains centralized on this page, where I only have to update them once.

U.S. Forest Service (White Mountain National Forest)

Backcountry Camping Rules 2008-2009

Parking Passes

Road Closures

WMNF Backcountry Rules 2008-09, as Text

(Note: the PDF linked above also includes some general info about Leave No Trace, and ranger contact info. Note also that these are only the rules for the WMNF; separate rules apply to state land {e.g., Crawford or Pinkham Notches} and private land {e.g., most of Mt Moosilauke}.)
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No Camping, Wood or Charcoal Fires within 1/4 mile of the following except at designated sites

Any hut, shelter, developed tent site, cabin, picnic area, developed day use site, or campground
Any trailhead

The following special areas:

The former site of the Beaver Brook Shelter on the AT (Rt. 112)
Camp 13
Former Franconia Brook Campsite
Jackman Overlook
Zeta Pass

The following bodies of water:

Ammonoosuc River at Woodsville Water
Supply Dam
Champney Falls
Diana’s Bath
East Branch of the Pemigewasset River from the Kancamagus Highway (Rt. 112) to Franconia Brook, including islands
East Pond
Glen Ellis Falls
Kiah Pond
Long Pond, including islands
Sabbaday Falls
Sawyer Ponds - Big and Little (except at shelter and tent platforms)
Thoreau Falls
Unknown Pond

The following trails:

Greely Ponds Trail between Kancamagus Highway and first stream crossing

The following roads:

Clay Brook Road (FR 188)
Base Station Rd. (FR 173)
Bear Notch Road (FR 26)
Beebe River Road (FR 400)
Breezy Point Road (FR 186)
Buffalo Road (local)
Dugway Road (FR 60) from the picnic area to the Kancamagus Highway
Haystack Road (FR 304) from Rt. 3 to North Twin Trailhead
Jefferson Notch Road (FR 220) from the Base Station to Caps Ridge trailhead
Kancamagus Highway (Rt. 112) from Junction Rt. 302, Bath, NH to Junction Rt. 16, Conway, NH
Kiah Pond Road (FR 418)
Lower Hall Pond Road (FR 417)
Mad River Road (Rt. 49) from Campton to Waterville Valley, NH
Noxon Road (FR 62)
Old Cherry Mountain Road (FR 14)
Petty Brook Road (FR 353) from Forest boundary 1/2 mile East to end of the road
Pinkham B. Road (FR 207)
Rocky Branch Road (FR 27) where it passes through the National Forest
Rt. 16 from Junction Rt. 2 Gorham, NH to Junction Rt. 16 Glen, NH
Rt. 113 1/2 mile above and below Hastings Campground
Rt. 302 from Junction Rt. 16 Glen, NH to Junction Rt. 3 Twin Mtn. NH
Sawyer River Road (FR 34)
South Gale River Loop Rd, (FR 92) from the junction with Rt. 3 to Garfield trailhead
Stillings Road (FR 506) where it passes through the National Forest
Stinson Lake Road (FR 113) where it crosses Brown Brook
Tunnel Brook Road (FR 700)
Upper Hall Pond Road (FR 422)
White Ledge Road (FR 369) where it passes through National Forest
Wild River Road (FR 12)
Zealand Road (FR 16)

No Camping, Wood or Charcoal Fires within 200 feet of:

The following bodies of water:

Black Pond
Black Mountain Pond
East Branch of the Pemigewasset River from
the Wilderness boundary to its crossing with Thoreau Falls Trail, including islands
Franconia Brook from its junction with the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River to the second island above Franconia Brook Falls
The stream along the Smart’s Brook trail from Rt. 49 to the beaver pond

The following trails:

Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail
Appalachian Trail from the summit of Mt. Moosilauke to the Connecticut River (except at shelters)
Intersection of Cedar Brook and Hancock Notch Trails to junction with Hancock Loop Trail
Champney Falls Trail from a point 1/4 mile from the Kancamagus Highway to Champney Falls
Falling Waters Trail
Liberty Springs Trail
Lower Falls Trail
Old Bridle Path
Valley Way from its intersection with the Scar Trail to Madison Hut
Wild River Trail from Wild River Campground to 1 mile south

The following roads:

Tripoli Rd. (FR 30) where it crosses any trail
Tripoli Road (FR 30) from where it crosses the West Branch of the Mad River, BM 1949, to a point 1/2 mile east

No Camping, Wood or Charcoal Fires within:

Bartlett Experimental Forest (campfires allowed)
Research Natural Areas (camping allowed)
Candidate Research Natural Areas (camping allowed)
Greeley Ponds Scenic Area
Mt. Chocorua Forest Protection Area (Exceptions: Camp Penacook camping and fires allowed. Jim Liberty Cabin - camping inside cabin only is allowed - no fires)
Rocky Gorge Scenic Area

The following restrictions apply to all Congressionally Designated Wildernesses:

Caribou-Speckled Mtn.
Great Gulf
Presidential/Dry River
Sandwich Range
Pemigewasset
Wild River

No motorized equipment or mechanical transport (wheelchairs are an exception)
No storing of equipment, personal property or supplies including geocaching and letter boxing
Hiking and camping group size must be limited to no more than 10

Additional regulations for Presidential/Dry River and Pemigewasset:

No camping, wood or charcoal fires within 200 feet of any trail except at designated campsites

Additional regulations for the Great Gulf Wilderness:

No wood or charcoal fires at any location
No camping within 1/4 mile of the Great Gulf Trail between its junctions with the Sphinx and Gulfside Trails.
No camping within 200 feet of any trail except at designated sites

Special Restrictions for the Cutler River Drainage (Including Tuckerman and Huntington Ravines)

No camping except at the Harvard Mountain Club Cabin (December 1-March 31 only) and Hermit Lake Shelters - Fee charged
No wood or charcoal fires

Camping in the Alpine Zone (where trees are 8 feet tall or less)

No camping except on 2 or more feet of snow
No camping on frozen bodies of water
No wood or charcoal fires

Please note that the above treeline areas of Cutler River Drainage (Tuckerman and Huntington Ravines and the areas around them including the Alpine Garden and East Snowfields) are closed to camping regardless of snow cover.

NOTE: Violating these restrictions is punishable by a fine pursuant to: 16USC551