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The park was developed as a dairy farm by the Carver family in 1859. At one point, the 186-acre property had a house, barn, two silos, and sixty head of cattle. After most of the buildings burned down in 1927, the descendants of Captain George A. Carver offered the land to the State of Maine as a park in 1952. [4] [5] It opened in 1963. [6]
Aroostook State Park: Aroostook: Presque Isle: 898 363 1938 Echo Lake Swimming, hiking, camping Baxter State Park: Piscataquis: 209,501 84,782 1931 Hiking on Mount Katahdin: Birch Point State Park: Knox: Owls Head: 62 25 1999 Penobscot Bay: Pocket beach Bradbury Mountain State Park: Cumberland: Pownal: 730 300 1939 Mountain biking Camden Hills ...
Lily Bay State Park is a public recreation area in the town of Greenville, Piscataquis County, Maine. The state park occupies 924 acres (374 ha) on the southeast shore of Moosehead Lake, the largest lake in New England. It was established in 1961 on woodland primarily donated by the Scott Paper Company in 1959. [3] The park offers camping ...
The refuge controls diurnal predators such as crows and foxes with several techniques, including hazing, fencing, trapping, and shooting. Least terns also nest at Laudholm Beach, Goose Rocks, Higgins, and Reid State Park. During migration, large numbers of common terns, along with smaller numbers of roseate terns (15), stage at Crescent Surf Beach.
Mount Blue State Park is a public recreation area covering 7,489 acres (3,031 ha) in the town of Weld, Franklin County, Maine. [3] The state park 's bifurcated land includes acreage on the west shore of Webb Lake as well as Mount Blue and other peaks to the east of the lake.
State of Maine [7] Hancock: T: ME IF&W: 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) 59-197: Bald Porcupine: Gouldsboro: Hancock: E: Acadia National Park, uninhabited, conifer and hardwood forest: 32 acres (13 ha) 59-036: Bald Rock: State of Maine [7] Hancock: T: ME IF&W: 1.3 acres (0.53 ha) [4] 59-192: Bald Rock: State of Maine [7] Hancock: T: ME IF&W: 0.5 acres (0.20 ...
Shackford Head State Park is a public recreation area on Moose Island in the city of Eastport, Washington County, Maine. The 87-acre (35 ha) state park occupies a peninsula that separates Cobscook Bay and Broad Cove. The land is named for John Shackford, an American Revolutionary War soldier who once owned the headlands. [3] The park is managed ...
The park is off U.S. Route 1 on the south side of Presque Isle. The similarly named Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge is some 30 miles (48 km) to the north. The park is 1 of 5 Maine State Parks that are in the path of totality for the 2024 solar eclipse, with 3 minutes and 1 second of totality. [4]