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Lake St. George State Park: Waldo: Liberty Township 358 145 Lake St. George Camping, swimming, boating, hiking Lamoine State Park: Hancock: Lamoine: 55 22 1949 Frenchman's Bay: Camping, kayaking Lily Bay State Park: Piscataquis: Greenville: 924 374 1959 Moosehead Lake: Fronts the state's largest lake Mackworth Island: Cumberland: Falmouth: 100 ...
Established in 1985 and funded by its members, it owns many preserves and trail networks, and has assisted in the creation of town-owned parks and preserves. The trust, one of eighty land trusts in Maine, [1] covers the towns of Brunswick, Topsham and Bowdoin. [2] The trust's executive director is Steve Walker, [3] while its president is Emily ...
Cobscook Bay State Park is a public recreation area occupying 888 acres (359 ha) on the western shore of Cobscook Bay in Washington County, Maine.The park offers a view of dramatically changing tides that on average can rise to 24 feet (7.3 m) high with some reaching as high as 28 feet (8.5 m).
The park was established by 28 donations of land, in trust, from park donor Percival P. Baxter between the years of 1931 and 1962, eventually creating a park of over 200,000 acres (809 km 2) in size. Baxter Park is not part of the Maine State Park system.
The park was created in 1960 when the Bureau of Parks and Lands made three acquisitions totaling 718 acres (291 ha). [3] Oxford County and international paper companies donated half of the park property. [6] A 29-acre (12 ha) parcel was added to the park in 2009 with the assistance of the Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust.
Aroostook State Park is public recreation area within the southern municipal boundary of the city of Presque Isle in Aroostook County, Maine. The state park's 898 acres (363 ha) encompass Quaggy Jo Mountain and sit adjacent to Echo Lake. "Quaggy Jo" is an altered version of the mountain's Native American name, "Qua Qua Jo", which means "twin ...
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]
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.