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Mount Katahdin, photographed from the park. Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument is a U.S. national monument spanning 87,563 acres (137 sq mi) of mountains and forestland in northern Penobscot County, Maine, including a section of the East Branch Penobscot River. [1] The monument is located on the eastern border of Maine's Baxter State ...
This list includes 35 state parks, public reserved lands, and state historic sites in the U.S. state of Maine.They are operated by the Maine Department of Conservation, with the exceptions of Baxter State Park, which is operated by the Baxter State Park Authority, and Peacock Beach, which is under local management.
State of Maine [7] Knox: R: Private, uninhabited [3] 59-321: Bar: Crow: Cranberry Isles: Hancock: R: Acadia National Park, closed to protect nesting eagles February 15 to August 31, [9] white pines and hardwoods, depicted in 1850 painting Bar Island and Mt. Desert Mountains from Somes Settlement by Fitz Henry Lane: 67 acres (27 ha) 79-758: Bar ...
Acadia National Park is a national park of the United States located along the mid-section of the Maine coast, southwest of Bar Harbor. The park includes about half of Mount Desert Island , part of the Isle au Haut , the tip of the Schoodic Peninsula , and portions of sixteen smaller outlying islands.
The Fernald Point Prehistoric Site is an archaeological site in Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island on the central coast of Maine.The principal feature of the site is a shell midden, whose excavation has yielded both historic artifacts and evidence of human occupation to at least 1000 BCE.
Map of Maine's counties. There are approximately 1,600 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. State of Maine. Each of the state's 16 counties has more than forty listings on the National Register. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted February 21, 2025.
Category: National parks in Maine. 10 languages. ... Acadia National Park (1 C, 16 P) This page was last edited on 7 December 2017, at 11:38 (UTC). ...
Americans for a Maine Woods National Park, an interest group that includes scientists, educators, environmentalists and celebrities, has long pushed to turn as much as 3.2 million acres (13,000 km 2) into a national park. [16] The proposed park is controversial among residents within or adjacent to the park's proposed borders.