The list nobody Instagrams. Where to grocery-shop on a Saturday afternoon. Which gas station's open at 11. Where the pharmacy is at six on a Sunday. The closest urgent care if the kid hits the dock the wrong way.
We list the boring stuff so the vacation works.
Country store on Route 5A near North Beach doing double duty as the lake's gas station, deli counter, and forgot-to-pack run rolled into one — sandwiches, hunting and fishing licenses, ice cream, a single gas pump. Open seven days, early morning into the evening, with hours that run later in summer. This is the one stop that covers gas, lunch, and bug spray without leaving Westmore.
Full grocery store on Church Street in Barton, about 15 to 20 minutes from Westmore via Route 16 — the actual provisioning run for a week at the lake, not the gas-station version. Deli and bakery counter on site. This is the trip to make on the way in, before you're unloading a cooler in the dark on Route 5A.
A gas station in Barton, part of the same provisioning loop as the grocery and pharmacy runs — the stop for a full tank rather than hoping the single pump at Willoughby Lake Store covers it. There's nothing resembling a real gas station directly on Lake Willoughby, so treat fuel the way you'd treat groceries: handle it on the way in, not after.
The region's real emergency department, on Prouty Drive in Newport, roughly 25 to 30 minutes from Westmore depending which end of the lake you're staying at — the address worth saving before a bad fall off the Pisgah cliffs or a boating accident, not after. Cell coverage on Route 5A is inconsistent enough that looking it up in the moment isn't a plan.
Pharmacy on Church Street in Barton, the closest to Lake Willoughby by a wide margin — nothing resembling a drugstore exists in Westmore itself. Fill prescriptions before the trip if you can; there's no evening or emergency pharmacy option anywhere near the lake, and Barton's own hours don't stretch much past early evening.