By Hilary Nangle on August 18, 2011
So many tidbits, I’m just bundling them in nice package for you. By region: Kennebec Valley • The Maine State Museum, in Augusta, is expanding its weekend hours, opening Sundays from 1-4 p.m. through at least Nov. 27, when the pilot project ends. New hours begin Sunday, Aug. 21, when the museum will celebrate with [...]
Posted in Acadia, Activities, Birding/wildlife viewing, Deals, Down East Coast, Entertainment, Events, Free Stuff, Kennebec and Moose River Valleys, Trip Planning, Western Lakes & Mountains, Where to go | Tagged Augusta, Bar Harbor, Carrabassett Valley, College of the Atlantic, Maine Huts & Trails, Maine State Museum, Tides Institute and Museum |
By Hilary Nangle on July 28, 2011
Don’t let summer slip away before you’ve had a chance to embrace at least one of these 10 made-for-the-memory-books Maine vacation experiences. 1. Hike in the 100-Mile Wilderness Using the Appalachian Mountain Club’s new Gorman Chairback Lodge and Cabins as a base, spend a few days hiking in the 100-Mile Wilderness region, northeast of Greenville. [...]
Posted in Activities, Birding/wildlife viewing, Boating, Hiking | Tagged 100-mile Wilderness, Baxter State Park, bike tour, Coos Canyon, Down East Nature Tours, Flagstaff Lake, gold panning, Gorman Chairback Lodge and Cabins, Grain Surfboards, Greenville, Katahdin, Maine Huts, Maine Minerology Adventures, Marshall Island, Michael Good, Millinocket, Northern Forest Canoe Trail, Old Quarry Ocean Adventures, Oxford Hills, rock hounding, Stonington, Summer Feet, surfing, York |
By Hilary Nangle on July 3, 2011
On Golden Pond, that dreamy sunset-of-life film starring Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and Jane Fonda, may have been filmed in New Hampshire, but playwright Ernest Thompson took his inspiration from Great Pond, the largest of Maine’s Belgrade Lakes. A mailboat—not the lovely wooden launch of the film, but a modern pontoon boat—still plies Great Pond’s [...]
Posted in Activities, Birding/wildlife viewing, Boating, Cabins & Cottages, Kennebec and Moose River Valleys, Lodging, Sightseeing, Sporting Camps, Trip Planning | Tagged Alden Camps, Bear Springs Camps, Belgrade Lakes, Castle Island Camps, D.E.W. Animal Kingdom, French's Mountain, Hutton Studios, Maine Bone Carving, maine lake vacation, Maine Sporting Camps, Whisperwood Lodge |
By Hilary Nangle on March 29, 2011
Ready to point and shoot? Maine has 14 sites designated as National Natural Landmarks, and the National Park Service is looking for photos. Winning photos in the 8th annual National Natural Landmarks Photo Contest will appear in the 2012 50th anniversary commemorative national natural landmarks calendar. Cool, eh? We’re not just talking rock-bound coast and [...]
Posted in Acadia, Activities, Aroostook County, Birding/wildlife viewing, Down East Coast, Hiking, Kennebec and Moose River Valleys, Maine Highlands, Mid-Coast, Moon guidebook updates, Penobscot Bay, Sightseeing, Southern Coast/Beaches, Trip Planning, Western Lakes & Mountains, Where to go | Tagged Appleton Bog Atlantic White Cedar Stand, Bigelow Mountain, Carrying Place Cove, Colby-Marston Preserve, crystal bog, Gulf Hagas, Monhegan Island, Mount Katahdin, National Natural landmarks, New Gloucester Black Gum Stand, no. 5 bog and jack pine stand, orono bog, passadumkeat marsh and boglands, Penny Pond-joe pond complex, photo contest, The Hermitage |
By Hilary Nangle on January 15, 2011
Steve Philbrick, second-generation owner of Bald Mountain Camps Resort, in Maine’s famed Rangeley Lakes region bit the bullet. After much soul seraching, he made the difficult decision to begin winter operations of the historical, traditional Maine sporting camp fronting on Mooselukmeguntik Lake. Although Philbrick is technically a second-generation owner, he took the operation over from [...]
Posted in Birding/wildlife viewing, Boating, Food, Hiking, Lodging, Skiing/Riding, Sporting Camps, Western Lakes & Mountains, Where to go | Tagged Bald Mountain Camps, cross-country skiing, Oquossoc, Rangeley, snowshoeing |
By Hilary Nangle on January 3, 2011
Maine has more than a half-million acres of public reserved lands, and the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands has just published a free map detailing these. Your Maine Lands: Recreational Map & Guide to Public Reserved Lands describes each of Maine’s Public Reserved Land units and the recreational opportunities available on them. What a [...]
Posted in Activities, Birding/wildlife viewing, Boating, Camping, Deals, Free Stuff, Hiking, Lodging, Resources, Trip Planning | Tagged Maine Public Reserved Lands, map, recreation |
By Hilary Nangle on September 28, 2010
Last week I wrote about the Moosehead/Katahdin region as a favorite place to view the leaves but leave the crowds. This week, I’m sharing another: Maine’s Schoodic Region, that lovely, rural, magical area just northeast of Ellsworth. It packs a wallop, with not one, but two Scenic Byways, a portion of Acadia National Park, the [...]
Posted in Acadia, Activities, Birding/wildlife viewing, Cabins & Cottages, Food, Hiking, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Sightseeing, Where to go | Tagged Acadia National Park, Albee's Shorehouse, Chase's, Cherryfield, chester pike's gallery, chipper's, crocker house inn, donnell pond public reserve lands, Elsa's.Main Stay Cottages, foliage, Gerrish's Store, Hancock, Le Domaine, Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, Maple Knoll Pizza, Oceanside Meadows, Petit Manan, Schoodic, schoodic section, Steudben, Sullivan, Three Pines, Winter Harbor |
By Hilary Nangle on September 20, 2010
Considering a fall foliage leaf-peeping trip in Maine? Here’s the first in a series of places where you can escape the crowds. I’ll start where the foliage will peak first, in the Moosehead Lake / Mount Katahdin region of Maine’s North Woods. Yup, woods. That guarantees foliage, and the mix of hard and soft woods [...]
Posted in Activities, Birding/wildlife viewing, Boating, Cabins & Cottages, Food, Hiking, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Maine Highlands, Motels, Resorts, Sightseeing, Sporting Camps, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged fall foliage, Greenville, Millinocket, Moosehead Lake, Mt. Katahdin |
By Hilary Nangle on July 20, 2010
My friend Jackie Dishner—author of Backroads & Byways of Arizona, speaker, and mountain bike rider—dishes on her day on Peaks earlier this summer. by Jackie Dishner My first overnight stay in Portland, and I woke up to foggy windows. Rain. It was pouring outside, and I had no umbrella. More a day for museums, my [...]
Posted in Activities, Birding/wildlife viewing, Boating, Greater Portland, Maine Made, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged biking, islands, Maine, Peaks Island, Portland |
By Hilary Nangle on July 17, 2010
If I had been asked to advise President Obama and family on what to do while on Mount Desert Island, I’d have given them this Top 10+ list of things to do when visiting Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island: • Loop-ti-doo Drive or pedaling Acadia National Park’s Park Loop Road is a must, [...]
Posted in Acadia, Activities, Birding/wildlife viewing, Boating, Hiking, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine, Mount Desert Island, schoodic point, Top 10 things to do |
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