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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 ...
Roxanne Quimby, after speaking with RESTORE, began purachasing land around Baxter State Park, and revealed her plan for a Maine North Woods National Park in 2011. On August 24, 2016, President Barack Obama proclaimed 87,563 acres (137 sq mi) of her donated land as the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. [48]
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Mount Katahdin (/ k ə ˈ t ɑː d ɪ n / kə-TAH-din) is the highest mountain in the U.S. state of Maine at 5,269 feet (1,606 m). Named Katahdin, which means "Great Mountain", [3] by the Penobscot Native Americans, it is within Northeast Piscataquis, Piscataquis County, and is the centerpiece of Baxter State Park.
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument: Maine: 87,564.27 acres (354.3600 km 2) Lava Beds National Monument: California: 46,692.42 acres (188.9575 km 2) Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument: Montana: 765.34 acres (3.0972 km 2) Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument: Mississippi: 0.74 acres (0.0030 km 2)
Piney Creek Ravine State Natural Area: Jackson, Randolph: 198 0.80 1972: Piney Creek: Prairie Ridge State Natural Area: Jasper, Marion: 4,101 16.60 Sielbeck Forest Natural Area: Johnson: 385 1.56 1998: Spitler Woods State Natural Area: Macon: 202.5 0.819 1937: Squirrel Creek: Volo Bog State Natural Area: Lake: 1,150 4.7 1970: Volo Bog
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The International Appalachian Trail (IAT; French: Sentier international des Appalaches, SIA) was originally a hiking trail which ran from Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, in Maine, through New Brunswick, to the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec, after which it followed a ferry route to Newfoundland, and then continued to the northern-easternmost point of the Appalachian Mountains at Belle ...