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The Allagash flows generally northeast, passing through a chain of natural mountain lakes. It joins the Saint John from the south at Allagash, Maine, near the international border with New Brunswick. The relatively unspoiled nature of the river has long made it a popular destination for canoe trips.
The Allagash Wilderness Waterway is a 92.5-mile-long (148.9 km) protected area extending from Aroostook County, Maine into Piscataquis County, Maine. It is a ribbon of lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams of the Maine North Woods that includes much of the Allagash River. Canoeing, fishing, hunting, and camping are among the activities permitted. [2]
In 1929 Dave Jackson was employed as a Maine game warden assigned to live and work out of a small 255-square-foot (24-square-meter) cabin on Umsaskis Lake on the upper Allagash River. [3] The cabin was one-quarter mile (400 meters) from the unpaved Lacroix road from Lac-Frontière, Quebec and could be reached only on snowshoes for most of the ...
Allagash is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. It is on the Allagash River in the North Maine Woods region. The population was 237 at the 2020 census .
In Maine it primarily traverses through the North Maine Woods region The trail covers 58 lakes and ponds, 22 rivers and streams, and 63 "carries" ( portages ) totaling 53 miles (85 km). On some sections of the trail, portage trails, campsites, and access areas are marked with Northern Forest Canoe Trail medallions, a yellow diamond with blue ...
Upon leaving St. Francis, the road enters Allagash and heads through a wooded area. It ascends the side of a small hill away from the river but later descends towards the town center of Allagash. After passing the town offices and a small store, SR 161 officially ends at the east end of the bridge carrying the road over the Allagash River.
Allagash may refer to: Allagash River, a tributary of the St. John River; Allagash, Maine, a town in Maine named after the river; Allagash Brewing Company, a brewery in Portland, Maine; Allagash Lake, original source of the Allagash River, diverted to Penobscot River by Telos Cut; Allagash Wilderness Waterway, a state wilderness area in Maine
Eagle Lake is the first, largest, and deepest lake of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in the North Maine Woods. [4] The lake covers the eastern side of Eagle Lake township. The southern end of the lake extends into Maine township 7, range 12, where it receives overflow from Indian Pond, and into Soper Mountain township where it receives overflow from Haymock Lake via Smith Broo