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Baxter State Park

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Baxter State Park

Location: 50 miles north of Greenville.
Facilities: Primitive campsites (lean-to/tent, wilderness cabins), trails.
Activities: Low-impact camping and hiking, fishing, skiing (winter only), snowmobiling, mountain climbing.
Special Features: Park is not part of Maine's state park system. It was given in trust to the people of Maine by former Governor Percival Baxter and is managed by an independent authority. The park consists of 200,000 acres of mountains, lakes, streams, and forest maintained in its natural wild state. It includes Mount Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine, and the northern terminus of the 2,144-mile-long Appalachian National Scenic Trail (see separate entry in national trails section).
Address: 64 Balsam Dr
Millinocket, ME 04462
Phone: 207-723-5140;
Web: www.baxterstateparkauthority.com
Size: 202,064 acres.

See other parks in Maine.


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Biechele also entered a photograph of a large bull moose crossing Kidney Pond in Maine's Baxter State Park the weekend before the art show.
His journeys have included trails in the Sierra Nevadas, the Yukon Territory, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and Baxter State Park in Maine, as well as footpaths in Norway, New Zealand, and Venezuela.
In Maine, the area between Moose Head Lake and Mount Katahdin in Baxter State Park is a good area to photograph moose with Sandy Stream Pond in Baxter as close to a sure thing as you can get.
 
 
 
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