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Outdoors in Your mini-guide to Maine State Parks, Public Lands, and Historic Sites

St. John Valley *

Deboullie Eagle *Approximately 135,500 acres of Lake Public Lands managed by the Bureau of Parks and Lands are within the three million acre Round (NMW) Pond system. This includes all or parts of Deboullie, Round Pond, Chamberlain, Telos, Seboomook, and the Allagash Wilderness Waterway (AWW). To access these Lands, the public passes through NMW checkpoints, Scopan where fees are paid for day use and camping. Visitors then travel over roads on private land within the NMW system. www.northmainewoods.org Southern Bangor & is not managed by BPL. Chamberlain Scraggly Lake Aroostook FMI: www.baxterstateparkauthority.com Lake Trail (207) 723-5140 Baker Lake Telos Gero Baxter Island State Chesuncook Park Lake to Katahdin Seboomook

Big Millinocket Day’s Spencer Forest Academy Mt. Moosehead Holeb

Seboeis

Chain of Ponds Dead River Duck Lake Four Kennebec Seasons Bald Crocker Valley Adventure Mountain Mountain Trail Lagrange Trail to Bradley Mount Medford Rocky Abraham Trail Lake Richardson Amherst Four Community Ponds Forest Tumbledown Great Heath Donnell Cutler Kennebec Pond Coast Highlands

JAY OAKLAND Mahoosucs Whistle Blackwoods Stop Trail Scenic Byway

Cutler Coast Public Lands

Outdoors in Maine Dodge Point

Pineland Mayall Mills at Pineland

Donnell Pond Public Lands

Reid State Park Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Bureau of Parks and Lands www.parksandlands.com g on g ti ) d hin n d a rs a i e e g g nc St g s: w Ro in in u obil arg g Town or County Map Grid in p ho ic Bar c k m g h in p S k c La in p s* m oku t tor ac ni ni im at owm C m il Location Reference Acreage a o o is ce ish ee u a State Parks C (H H H Sn S Pic Sw Bo F Sn F D Tr Approximate Opening & Closing Dates** Allagash Wilderness Waterway Aroostook & Piscataquis F2-F4 24,164 Open All Year Season Pass Not Accepted Androscoggin Riverlands Turner C11 2,674 Open All Year Aroostook Presque Isle I3 898 Open All Year Camping May 15-Oct. 15 Birch Point Owls Head F12 62 Memorial Day to Labor Day Bradbury Mountain Pownal D12 730 Open All Year Camping May 15-Oct. 15 Camden Hills Camden F11 5,710 Open All Year Camping May 15-Oct. 15 Cobscook Bay Dennysville K9 871 Open All Year Camping May 15-Oct. 15 Crescent Beach Cape Elizabeth D13 242 Open All Year Damariscotta Lake Jefferson E11 19 Memorial Day - Labor Day Ferry Beach Saco C13 117 Memorial Day - September 30 Fort Point () Stockton Springs G10 156 May 15 - October 15 Grafton Notch Grafton Township B10 3,129 May 15 - September 30 Holbrook Island Sanctuary Brooksville G11 1,345 Open All Year Lake St.George Liberty F10/F11 358 Open All Year Camping May 15-Oct. 15 Lamoine Lamoine H10 55 May 15 - October 15 Camping May 15-Oct. 15 Lily Bay Beaver Cove E6 924 Open All Year Camping May 15-Oct. 15 Falmouth D13 100 Open All Year Moose Point Searsport G10 146 Memorial Day - October 1 Weld C9 7,489 Open All Year Camping May 15-Oct. 15 Mount Kineo Kineo Twp. E6 800 Open All Year Owls Head Owls Head F11 13 Open All Year Peaks-Kenny Dover-Foxcroft F7 813 May 15 - October 1 Camping May 15-Oct. 1 Penobscot Narrows Observatory Prospect G10 5 May 1 - October 31 Season Pass Not Accepted Corridor Piscataquis E5-G5 12,500 Open All Year Phippsburg D13 605 Open All Year Quoddy Head Lubec L9 541 May 15 - October 15 Range Pond Poland C12 740 Open All Year Rangeley Lake Rangeley B9 870 May 1 -October 15 Camping May 15-Oct. 1 Reid Georgetown E12 770 Open All Year Roque Bluffs Roque Bluffs J10 274 May 15 - October 1 Scarborough Beach Scarborough C13 67 April - October Season Pass Not Accepted Sebago Lake Naples C12 1,342 Open All Year Camping May 1-Oct. 15 Shackford Head Eastport L9 87 Open All Year Swan Lake Swanville G10 67 Memorial Day - Labor Day Two Lights Cape Elizabeth D13 41 Open All Year Vaughan Woods South Berwick B14 165 Memorial Day - Columbus Day Warren Island Islesboro G11 70 Memorial Day - Sept. 15 Camping Memorial Day-Sept. 15 Wolfe’s Neck Woods Freeport D12 244 Open All Year State Park Camping Registration at www.campwithme.com Public Lands Amherst Mountains Community Forest Amherst H9 5,000 Bald Mountain Franklin B8 1,873 Visit **Although many of the State Parks and Baker Lake Somerset D4/5 1,620 Year Historic Site facilities are shut down for Bigelow Preserve Somerset & Franklin C8 35,000 the o season or winter, visitors are still Piscataquis E6 4,135 Round welcome to enjoy them by parking Bradley Penobscot G9/H9 9113 outside the gates and walking in. Chain of Ponds Franklin B7 1,119 Piscataquis E4/F4 10,290 For current status and information about Cutler Coast Washington K9 12,238 accessible facilities call the park or Days Academy Piscataquis E6 7,309 historic site directly. Dead River Somerset D8 7,031 Deboullie Aroostook G2 21,871 Trails All trails at State Parks and Public Lands Dodge Point Lincoln E12 548 provide hiking opportunities. Donnell Pond Hancock I10 15,391 Depending on the time of year, some Duck Lake Hancock & Washington I8 25,220 trails in selected State Parks also have Eagle Lake Aroostook H1 24,416 shared use opportunities for: Four Ponds Franklin C9 6,018 t cross-country skiing Piscataquis F5 4,051 t riding ATVs Great Heath Washington I9 6,207 t horseback riding Holeb Somerset C6/C7 20,155 t riding mountain bikes Kennebec Highlands Kennebec & Franklin D10 6,076 Call individual State Parks or Public Lands Little Moose Piscataquis E7 15,055 for information about specic trail uses Machias River Corridor Washington I,J,K/8,9 10,026 allowed in each area. Mahoosucs Oxford B10 31,807 Piscataquis E6 14,500 Shared ATV, equestrian, and bicycle use is allowed Franklin C8 6,214 Use on gravel roads on Public Lands that have Nahmakanta Piscataquis F6 43,966 the green and white sign indicating Pineland Cumberland D12 646 Roads “Shared Use Road.” Richardson Oxford B9 22,728 Rocky Lake Washington J9/K9 11,150 Boat Boat Launches are higly variable. Use the Round Pond Aroostook F2 20,349 Launches Online Sortable Boat Launch Listing: Scraggly Lake Penobscot G4 9,092 www.maine.gov/dacf/boatlaunches Scopan Aroostook I3 20,135 Seboeis Piscataquis & Penobscot G7 21,369 No formal picnic areas are generally Seboomook Somerset D,E/5,6 41,500 Picnic Areas present on Public Lands. Informal Telos Piscataquis F4 22,962 picnicking without res is permitted. Tumbledown Franklin C9 10,555

State Historic Sites Approximate Opening & Closing Dates** Bible Point Aroostook I5 27 Memorial Day - Labor Day Colonial Pemaquid (Ft. William Henry) Bristol E12 19 Memorial Day - Labor Day Eagle Island S. Harpswell D13 17 June 15 - Labor Day Popham Beach / Phippsburg E13 10 May 1 - September 30 Edgecomb E12 3 Memorial Day - Labor Day Winslow E10 0.75 Open All Year Fort Kent H1 3 Memorial Day - September 30 Prospect G10 124 May 1 - October 31 Fort McClary Kittery Point B15 27 Memorial Day - Columbus Day Fort O’Brien Machiasport K9 2 Memorial Day - September 30 Fort Pownall () Stockton Springs G10 3 May 15 - October 15 Popham Beach / Phippsburg E13 4 Memorial Day - Labor Day John Paul Jones Kittery B15 2 Open All Year T6R9 F7 23 Open All Year

Whaleback Shell Midden Damariscotta E12 11 May 15 - October 15 This brochure was made possible in part by funding assistance through the Federal Highway Administration’s Recreational Trails Program (RTP), administered by the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands. Lands. and Parks of Bureau Maine the by administered (RTP), Program Trails Recreational Administration’s Highway Federal the through assistance part funding in by possible made was brochure This Camping Reservations at State Parks...... www.campwithme.com Within Maine 1-800-332-1501 / Outside Maine (207) 624-9950 / TTY: Maine Relay 711 State Park Passes...... www.mainestateparkpass.com Get the complete Outdoors in Maine ATV Trails & Information...... www.maine.gov/dacf/atv brochure during Boat Launches - Sortable Online Listing...... www.maine.gov/dacf/boatlaunches the summer at Snowmobile Trails & Information...... www.maine.gov/dacf/snowmobile Maine State Parks. Waterways: Allagash Wilderness Waterway...... www.maine.gov/allagashwildernesswaterway Penobscot River Corridor...... www.maine.gov/penobscotrivercorridor Version: 09/3/2020