So, someone in Waterville Valley without a cell phone for some reason like the battery dies, or it ran out of minutes, or it got lost, or stopped working, or never had one in the first place needs to drive 13-miles back to Exit 28 to find a pay phone? For a town that is a resort town, that just does not make any sense. Used to be the basement area at the ski area base lodge had a wall with about six different payphones, then it was reduced to three phones, then one, and now just an 18-guage, copper phone wire dangles from the payphone mounting plate.
Maybe a new phone will get re-installed by Fairpoint or some other company starting on January 1. That seems like a good possibility?
Anyway; back at Route 93-Exit 28, thirteen miles away, there's three working payphones; two outside the Waterville Valley Information Center, and another, a payphone booth outside the Mobil Gas. It's an aluminum, old stand-up style phone booth that looks like it's been there since maybe 1975 or earlier, and is in remarkably good condition, clean, and the phone works good. You can call anywhere in the U.S. for 4-quarters, or locally for 50-cents. Hopefully, the management at
www.waterville.com will be reinstalling their two vacant payphone locations so that visiters to Waterville Valley will not have to travel 13-miles back to Exit 28 for a payphone.
Here's a plug for the Exit 28 Mobil Gas and their antique outdoor phone booth! Need to buy gasoline in the middle of the night? One of their gas pumps works 24/7 with a credit/debit card.