Bartlett includes the village of Glen and a substantial portion of Intervale. Spread along the valley of the Saco River, closely bounded by National Forest and with a low tax rate, it has been the preferred site of more new subdivisions than any other in Mt. Washington Valley.  Bartlett Village is some seven miles north of North Conway and contains mostly year round residents.

The major Bartlett residential areas are: Route 16A, Dundee, the west side of Route 16 north of North Conway, Glen Village, Linderhof, Nordic Village, Glen Ledge, Attitash area, Stillings Grant, Route 302 from Glen to Bartlett Village, and the Village itself. None of these lend themselves to easy description; each has an assortment of high and low priced properties. For example, Route 16A has an Alpendorf section with mostly older and low to medium priced chalets, Merriman Forest stations duplex townhouses on a hillside with panoramic views, the Farm at New England Inn spreads pleasant attached houses around a valley nook, and the original 16A community of houses clusters along the meandering road that used to be the main route north, set close to the pavement for easier plowing. Some generalization is possible: Linderhof is almost entirely chalets, Glen Ledge mostly contemporaries, and Nordic Village condominiums that function as a condo hotel.