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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]
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
The Eagle Lake Tramway is a historic timber-transport mechanism in the remote North Maine Woods in northeastern USA. [2] The tramway, built in 1902 and operated until 1907, transported timber across a neck of land between Eagle Lake and Chamberlain Lake, with one end eventually becoming the eastern terminus of the Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad in 1927.
Much of the river was subsequently designated as the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. In 1970 the waterway became part of the National Wild and Scenic River program of the U.S. federal government. Although the wild designation of the river is normally applied to free-flowing streams, the designation left in place the wooden Churchill Dam for ...
Location: Piscataquis County, Maine: Coordinates: 1]: Primary outflows: Webster Brook: Basin countries: United States: Max. length: 14 mi (23 km) [2]: Max. width: 2 mi (3.2 km) [2]: Surface area: 10,932 acres (4,424 ha) [3]: Max. depth: 154 feet (47 m): Water volume: 473,380 acre⋅ft (583,910,000 m 3) [3]: Surface elevation: 942 ft (287 m) [1]: Chamberlain Lake is one of the largest and ...
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
Pepperbox Wilderness Area - 22,560 acres (91.300 km 2) Pharaoh Lake Wilderness Area - 45,883 acres (185.68 km 2) Pigeon Lake Wilderness Area - 50,100 acres (202.75 km 2) Saint Regis Canoe Area - 18,231 acres (73.778 km 2) Sentinel Range Wilderness Area - 23,252 acres (94.098 km 2) Siamese Ponds Wilderness Area - 112,524 acres (455.368 km 2)
Log jam at Ripogenus Gorge during 1870s log driving.. The North Maine Woods is the northern geographic area of the state of Maine in the United States.The thinly populated region is overseen by a combination of private individual and private industrial owners and state government agencies, and is divided into 155 unincorporated townships within the NMW management area. [1]