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Birch Point State Park is a public recreation area occupying 62 acres (25 ha) on Penobscot Bay in the town of Owls Head, Knox County, Maine. [3] The state park features a sandy, crescent-shaped "pocket beach" [4] with scenic views of the Muscle Ridge Islands dotting Muscle Ridge Channel. [5] The park is managed by the Maine Department of ...
Trails, vistas Owls Head Light State Park: Knox: Owls Head: 13 5.3 Penobscot Bay: Beaches, lighthouse Peacock Beach State Park: Sagadahoc: Richmond: 10 4.0 Pleasant Pond Locally managed Peaks-Kenny State Park: Piscataquis: Dover-Foxcroft, Bowerbank: 813 329 1964 Sebec Lake Beach, boating, camping Penobscot River Corridor: Piscataquis, Somerset ...
Northern terminus of the Trail atop Mount Katahdin in Maine. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy (or ATC) believes the 281.4 miles (452.9 km) of the trail in Maine are particularly difficult. [31] The western section includes a mile-long (1.6 km) stretch of boulders at Mahoosuc Notch, often called the trail's hardest mile.
Owls Head Light and part of harbor viewed from the Owls Head Transportation Museum's Stearman Biplane, taken on 5 October 2003. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 19.61 square miles (50.79 km 2), of which 8.88 square miles (23.00 km 2) is land and 10.73 square miles (27.79 km 2) is water. [1]
The WMNF is the only national forest located in either New Hampshire or Maine, and is the most eastern national forest in the United States. Most of the major peaks over 4,000 feet high in New Hampshire are located in the national forest. Over 100 miles (160 km) of the Appalachian Trail traverses the White
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 summit of Old Speck is on the southern boundary of Grafton Notch State Park. The Appalachian Trail, a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) National Scenic Trail from Georgia to Maine, runs along the Mahoosuc Range, 0.3 miles (0.5 km) west of the summit of Old Speck. A short side trail runs from the Appalachian Trail to the summit of the mountain.
State Route 73 (abbreviated SR 73) is part of Maine's system of numbered state highways, a coastal route located in southern Knox County. It runs for 10.7 miles (17.2 km) from an intersection with SR 131 in St. George to an intersection with U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Rockland .