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  2. Mount Katahdin - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Hamlin Peak - Wikipedia

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    Hamlin Peak is a northern spur of the greater Mount Katahdin massif and is flanked to the south by Baxter Peak, and to the north by the Howe Peaks. Since it rises nearly 500 feet (150 m) above the col joining it to the higher Baxter Peak, Hamlin Peak qualifies as a four-thousand footer based on the topographic prominence criterion used by the ...

  4. List of proposed national parks of the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1920, eventual Governor Percival P. Baxter participated in an expedition to the top of Mount Katahdin to investigate its potential as a national park. Later in life, he would personally buy tracks of land and established Baxter State Park. [38] U.S. Representative Owen Brewster introduced legislation for a Mt. Katahdin National Park in 1937 ...

  5. Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. 1,000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die

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    1,000 Places to See in the US and Canada Before You Die (ISBN 0761147381, 2007) is a book written by Patricia Schultz as a follow-up book to 1,000 Places to See Before You Die.

  7. The parents hiking America’s longest trails with five kids

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    Danae and Olen Netteburg, both 44, and their five children aged between 14 and two, have just completed North America’s holy hiking trinity, the Triple Crown.

  8. Chesuncook Lake - Wikipedia

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    Set on the shoreline of Chesuncook Lake and facing Mount Katahdin in the distance, the Lake House and its acreage are one of the few remaining North Woods "logging hotels" which at one time were built at intervals of every 14 miles (this was the average distance a man could walk in one day) through the logging regions in order to house and feed ...

  9. List of paintings by Frederic Edwin Church - Wikipedia

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    Fog off Mount Desert: 1850: Oil on board: 30.48 × 39.37 cm: Private collection Otter Creek, Mt. Desert: 1850: Oil on canvas: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Beacon, off Mount Desert Island: 1851: Oil on canvas: 31 in × 46 in (790 mm × 1,170 mm) Private collection [4] New England Scenery: 1851: Oil on canvas