the land are open for public vehicular use. Road conditions vary, and use is to carry on a hike. Additional safety and preparation at the user’s own risk. information is available at outdoors.org/tripplanner. Guide Services Boating Registered Maine Guides are welcome to bring clients on the land. Please call More than 20 ponds dot the land and are open to public use. Boats AMC’s Greenville offi ce at (207) 695-3085 if you are interested in off ering guided should not be stored on the property. trips. AMC also recommends local guides to guests staying at its camps. Getting Here Hiking Access is via logging roads. See the map on the reverse for approach The land off ers multiple hiking opportunities. Inquire at our camps for routes. Road conditions vary and use is at the user’s risk. Not all roads hiking maps, or see the recently revised and updated AMC Maine Mountain may be passable, depending on seasonal conditions. Please limit your Guide, 10th Edition for options. Hikers are advised to be prepared for varying speed to 25 mph, and yield to logging trucks. No fuel is available terrain and weather conditions with gear and clothing that will keep them once you leave the state highways. The KIW property is part of the warm, dry, and sheltered from wind. Sturdy boots, at least two quarts of KI Jo-Mary Multiple Use Forest. A gate fee of $10 per person ($6 for 2012 Map and Guide to the water per person per day, high-energy snacks, map, compass, fl ashlight, Maine residents) is collected for access to KI Jo-Mary Forest lands Appalachian Mountain Club’s matches or lighter, whistle, fi rst aid kit, and jackknife are essential items from May through October. Access is free for those younger than 15 or FISH SPECIES older than 70. Collection stations include the Hedgehog Gate and the Katahdin Iron Works Gate checkpoints, which operate from 6 a.m. to 9 Recreation and Conservation p.m. daily. For detailed driving directions to AMC’s Maine Wilderness lodges see outdoors.org/mainedirections or call (207) 358-5187. POND ACREAGE Trout Brook Native Trout Brook Wild Trout Brook Salmon Landlocked Trout Lake Splake ACCESS Land in Maine Long Pond 657 Roadside AMC’s Maine Woods Initiative First Little Lyford Pond 20 Maintained Trail AMC’s recreation and conservation land is a focal point of the Second Little Lyford Pond 21 Maintained Trail Maine Woods Initiative, an innovative approach to conservation Improved, Maintained Trail Horseshoe Pond 172 that combines outdoor recreation, resource protection, sustainable be made through the KI-Jo Mary Multiple Use Forest at (207) 965-8135. Pearl Ponds 6 and 4 Improved, Maintained Trail forestry, and community partnerships. The initiative represents the Welcome! AMC owns and operates three traditional sporting camps in the area: Little Grassy Pond 3 Improved, Maintained Trail most signifi cant investment in conservation and recreation in the The Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) welcomes Piscataquis Lyford Lodge and Cabins, Medawisla Wilderness Lodge and Cabins, and AMC’s 136-year history. The initiative seeks to address the ecological Gorman Chairback Lodge and Cabins, which off er meals, lodging and a Trout Pond 20 Maintained Trail County residents and visitors to explore and enjoy its Maine Woods and economic needs of the Maine Woods region by supporting local recreation and conservation land. Our 66,500 acres of forestland variety of recreational activities. All are open to the public. Reservations Baker Pond 10 Improved, Maintained Trail forest products jobs and traditional recreation, creating new multi-day o er such recreational opportunities for the public as: are required; call (207) 358-5187. Medawisla is currently closed for Houston Pond 679 Maintained Path recreational experiences for visitors, and attracting new nature-based renovations. A January 2014 reopening is anticipated. • Hiking Indian and Dam Ponds 307 Informal, Unmaintained Path tourism to the region. AMC is committed to maintaining public access • Fishing Sportsmen Are Welcome Lost Pond (Not Surveyed) 15 Informal, Unmaintained Path to the area. • Paddling • Snowmobiling The land is especially prized by sportsmen for hunting and fi shing, Lucia Pond 52 Rough Road; Portage • Camping • Wildlife Watching and AMC’s land is open for these activities. Here you will fi nd healthy Mountain Brook Pond 25 Improved, Maintained Trail For More Information • Mountain Biking • Dog-Sledding Ponds on the Katahdin Iron Works Property Works on the Katahdin Iron Ponds Contact Operations Manager Gary Dethlefsen, who is based populations of moose, deer, bear, and upland birds. Hunting, fi shing, and Roaring Brook Pond 60 Informal, Unmaintained Path • Hunting • Cross-Country Skiing out of our Greenville offi ce at 15 Moosehead Lake Road, and trapping are allowed, in accordance with state and federal regulations. Sampson Pond 41 Informal, Unmaintained Path can be reached at (207) 280-0224. Additional information and Sportsmen are welcome year round, including those portions of the spring Recreational Trails recreational maps are also available at our sporting camps. and fall seasons when AMC’s camps are closed. To make reservations at Little Lyford Lodge and Cabins or AMC manages more than 212 miles of recreational trails in Maine, including Second Roach Pond 970 Rough Road The land contains the headwaters of the West Branch of the Pleasant River, Gorman Chairback Lodge and Cabins, call (207) 358-5187, or 80 miles of hiking trails and ski routes on its Maine Woods land, all of Third Roach Pond 570 Rough Road which support a strong population of wild brook trout, an increasing rarity in visit outdoors.org/mainelodges. which are open for use by the public. Many new trails have been built over the East. Anglers should consult the state’s open water fi shing regulations Fourth Roach Pond 266 Rough Road the past nine years, and AMC welcomes area residents and visitors to enjoy More information on recreational resources, the Maine Woods regarding the use of certain fi shing gear on certain bodies of water. To help Trout Pond 20 Informal, Unmaintained Path Initiative, and the AMC, can be found at outdoors.org/mwi. these trails and explore this beautiful area. Beaver Pond 27 Informal, Unmaintained Path protect the integrity of the headwaters area, AMC manages a section of the Campsites and Sporting Camps Open to the Public land as an ecological reserve. Sportsmen are welcome to access the reserve First West Branch Pond 119 Rough Road Campsites are available on the land, including drive-up sites near area on foot, for some of the area’s fi nest fi shing, trapping, hunting, and the Second West Branch Pond 153 Rough Road Outfitters, Guides & Business Members Program Horseshoe Pond and at Long Pond; walk-in sites at Horseshoe Pond and unique opportunity for heritage hunting. To protect natural resources and Long Bog 10 Informal, Unmaintained Path Official MeM ber O f TrO u T u nliM i T ed’s Baker Pond; the Phoenix Shelter at Trout Pond for backpackers; and the aid in land management, some roads, particularly those in the ecological Ponds on the Roach Ponds Tract Ponds on the Roach Ponds Penobscot Pond 279 Rough Road Member of the Maine Sporting Camp Association paddle-in Coyote Rock Campsite on Long Pond. Campsite reservations can reserve area, are closed to vehicles, but more than 200 miles of roads on Key recreational features of AMC’s Maine Woods land may be found on the map on the reverse side of this sheet. © 2012 Appalachian Mountain Club AMC Recreation and Conservation Area Farrar Mtn 2524 Nahmakanta Reserved Land (MBPL) AMC Land Other Conservation Lands Scale Improved Road Na Unimproved Road 0 mile 1 2 hmakanta Road Appalachian Trail Sm ith Penobscot ATV Route to wn Pond R KIJM KI-Jo Mary Multiple Use Forest o ad Gate (no public access) May 2012 Second Roach Pond AMC Kokadjo Medawisla Wilderness R Lodge & o a c Cabins h (closed for R R o renovations) iv a Trout Mtn e ch r P 2058 on d R First Roach Pond oad d a o L Third R o 2499 y w Roach a e B Trout Pond r y F l re S Shaw Mtn Pond i n c h L h t a ow n w 2641 R AMC o M Fourth a t AMC Roach MWI d n Roach R Ponds Tract Pond o a d Moosehead Lake 100-Mile B i Wilderness g S p Inlet Brook r i Number Four Mtn n g 2890 s Hedgehog R East Mtn o a Branch 2130 d Lean-to Second Big West Lyford West Branch Pond Branch Pond Pond B Camps ake r M tn B Third ro o First West k West Branch Branch Pond Pond Baker Mtn 3520 Logan Brook r Lean-to e h v c i Sidney n R a Tappan r t Campsite White B n Hay Cap Mtn a t s Mtn 3654 s a e 3244 e l W P West Gulf Peak Baker Hagas Mtn 3178 Baker Pond Pond 2683 Campsite (AMC/KIJM) Carl A Little Newhall Lyford Mountain Lean-to H Ponds a Brook Pond AMC Little y B Lyford r Elephant Mtn o U p Lodge G o 2647 p k e & Cabins u Pearl Ponds r l f V Campsites H a l a (AMC/KIJM) Indian Mtn l e Upper g 2341 y Wilson a Horseshoe R s o Pond Campsite B Horseshoe a r (AMC/KIJM) d Pond o o k Hedgehog G u Checkpoint l f H (KIJM) a g The a Hermitage T s ro u t d Phoenix a o Shelter B R ro d East at Trout Pond o on (AMC/KIJM) k Long P Coyote Rock Chairback Campsite Pond Ka tahd (AMC/KIJM) in Iro Silver Rum n W Lake Pond Long Pond ork Campsite s R AMC oa (AMC/KIJM) Gorman d Long Pond Chairback KI R oad Lodge d & Cabins Chairback oa Gap Katahdin 11 miles tn R k M Lean-to Iron Works from Greenville to irbac Checkpoint Hedgehog Checkpoint Cha Columbus d a (KIJM) Mtn o R West 2342 tn M 6.3 miles Chairback re Third Pond O from Route 11 to Mtn KIW Checkpoint 2069 Cloud Fourth Mtn Houston Mtn Pond 2378 1543 Long Pond Lean-to Indian Stream Pond Houston Lean-to Pond Dam Pond Cloud Sampson Pond Barren Mtn Pond 2660 Wilson Valley Lean-to Lucia Pond AMC Katahdin Iron Works Tract Roaring Brook Mtn Lake Roaring Brook Onawa Pond Benson Mtn This map is not intended for navigational purposes.