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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 ...
Mount Blue State Park: Franklin: Weld: 7,489 3,031 1955 Webb Lake: Beach, hiking, camping Mount Kineo State Park: Piscataquis: Kineo Township 800 320 Moosehead Lake: 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 ...
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 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 ...
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.
The Hundred-Mile Wilderness is the section of the Appalachian Trail in the state of Maine running between Monson and Abol Bridge over the West Branch of the Penobscot River just south of Baxter State Park. It is generally considered the most remote section of the Appalachian Trail, [1] [2] and one of
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
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