but who has called Chester, N.H. home for the past 50 years, raced at what is now the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon as part of Motorcycle Week events, as well as in downtown Laconia.

Every June, the city hosts its annual Motorcycle Week, or as the ... is no shortage of fun in Laconia, just a 20-minute drive away is Meredith, another lakeside New Hampshire town full of activities.

If you’d mentioned Laconia to us in the past, we’d think Motorcycle Week, known for its rowdy, sometimes rough-and-tumble atmosphere, honky-tonk Weirs Beach, and a sorry looking, nearly vacant ...