Diana's Baths

Mrs. Hattie C. Lucy owned the property and operated a gift shop beside the falls through the 1940s with an ice house behind the store to cool the soda that was sold to tourists.

According to Place Names of the White Mountains by Robert and Mary Julyan, the origin of the name comes from this: "These curious circular stone cavities on Lucy Brook originally were known as the Home of the Water Fairies; tradition says evil water sprites inhabited the ledges, tormenting the Sokokis Indians until a mountain god answered the Indians' prayers and swept the sprites away in a flood.

But sometime before 1859 a Miss Hubbard of Boston, a guest at the old Mount Washington House in North Conway, rechristened them Diana's Baths, presumably to evoke images of the Roman nature goddess.

"[5] The name was official when the government purchased the land in the 1960s and made it part of the White Mountain National Forest.

The impact on the ecosystem was a large amount of waste and human excrement in the area surrounding Lucy Brook.

Forest rangers decided to add toilets and trash receptacles to combat these problems, and since then, little to no adverse effect on the environment has been detected.