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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 .
Peaks in the state of Maine [1] [2] Mountain Peak Elevation Prominence Isolation Location County; Mount Abraham: 4,049 ft 1234 m: 899 ft 274 m: 4.11 mi 6.62 km Franklin: Agamenticus: 692 ft 211 m: 522 ft 159 m: 12.05 mi 19.4 km
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 ...
After assuming the Maine Senate presidency during the state's 80th legislative session, Percival Baxter appointed his brother Rupert, a Senator from Sagadahoc County, to the Committee on State Lands and Forest Preservation, which would be considering legislation that would create a state park at Katahdin. Baxter introduced on January 25, 1921 ...
An undisturbed, sphagnum bog considered one of the largest and finest in Maine. Gulf Hagas: 1968: Piscataquis: federal (Appalachian Trail) Waterfalls, cliffs, and growth of spruce-fir forest on the gorge walls give the site unusual scenic beauty. The Hermitage
This time, however, he offers to take Donn and his two brothers on a brief hiking trip up nearby Mount Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine, by way of apology before he departs. This is a big ...
Stacyville is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States, in the foothills of Mount Katahdin. The population was 380 at the 2020 census. [2] It achieved national prominence in 1939 when 12-year-old Donn Fendler was lost on Katahdin for nine days, before being found in Stacyville on July 25, 1939. He was found by a searcher by the name of ...
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 ...