Covering the most popular Maine hiking destinations, this is the hiker's guide to finding the best trails throughout the state. Foghorn Outdoors Maine Hiking guides hikers through the Appalachian chain, the White Mountain National Forest, Baxter State Park, Acadia National Park, and the North Woods, along with hikes through rural trails and remote, lush hills undiscovered by tourists. Families, day-trippers, and seasoned hikers looking for a change of pace will all find the perfect trail among the options selected by outdoor enthusiast and hiking expert Michael Lanza. This guidebook provides updated, easy-to-use region and trail maps, photographs and illustrations, complete information on fees, permits, user groups, contacts, and driving directions for every possible hike. Foghorn Outdoors Maine Hiking has the details on the best available hiking in Maine.
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"Meticulously researched and smartly written, Foghorn Outdoors offers some of the best recreation guides around. The books provide exceptionally reliable information on each location and activity, while emphasizing sensible, low-impact enjoyment of the outdoors."
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Hiking Guide to Maine,
By Jay (Portland, ME) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Foghorn Outdoors Maine Hiking: Day Hikes, Kid-Friendly Trails, and Backpacking Treks (Paperback)
I'm a native of Portland, and my friend (who's not originally from Maine) and I found this guide really helpful. Though I know the state well, I don't know all the little things about certain trails, such as whether certain trails allow dogs (important to my friend) or where a good place is to park the car (important to me, since I'm the one driving the two of us to these places). This guide tells you all that, and about all the hidden parking/entrance fees of certain trails. Highly recommended!
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Good for a trip planned for Maine,
This review is from: Foghorn Outdoors Maine Hiking: Day Hikes, Kid-Friendly Trails, and Backpacking Treks (Paperback)
Offers quite a variety of hikes in Maine. Could use perhaps some more detailed maps. Have not got a chance to use yet as I am planning a trip for September 2007.
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in Acadia,
This review is from: Foghorn Outdoors Maine Hiking: Day Hikes, Kid-Friendly Trails, and Backpacking Treks (Paperback)
This book offers great introduction to some of the best trails in Acadia. I used several recommendations from this book for my fall trip to Acadia and the trails were in deed quite awesome. Do get the book's recommended Acadia hiking maps, you can buy them in Acadia National Park's Hulls Cove Visitor Center. The detailed directions to the trail heads, whether there is a fee, whether pets are allowed, etc, are all useful information. Although not explicitly, it also lists some really good rainy day alternatives (unlike the granite mountains, the gravel carriage roads are good regardless of weather). Overall the book was especially useful to my trip. Although there are some long ones that may take 8-9 hours, Acadia trails are essentially all day hikes (or combination of different hikes). but don't let the low mileage fool you, some of these short granite mountain trails are very challenging.
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topographic area maps, carriage road loop, other hiker services, wheelchair facilities, hike entails, vehicle pass costs, short side path, maps showing roads, cumulative elevation gain, hiker register, trail club, park website, private logging road, contacting the park, open ledges, descend the same way, reenters the woods, state park entrance, open summit, severe winter weather, park visitors center, true summit, previous listing, trail junction, main summit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Appalachian Trail, Acadia National Park, Map Sales, User Groups Hikers, Federal Center, Bar Harbor, Appalachian Mountain Club, Park Loop Road, Jordan Pond, Togue Pond, Mount Desert Island, Duck Harbor, Caribou Valley Road, Ridge Trail, Grafton Notch State Park, Sugarloaf Mountain, Baxter State Park-Katahdin, Directions Take, Brook Trail, Baxter Park, Chimney Pond, Cottage Street, Eagle Lake Road, Friends of Acadia, Harpers Ferry New!
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topographic area maps, carriage road loop, other hiker services, wheelchair facilities, hike entails, vehicle pass costs, short side path, maps showing roads, cumulative elevation gain, hiker register, trail club, park website, private logging road, contacting the park, open ledges, descend the same way, reenters the woods, state park entrance, open summit, severe winter weather, park visitors center, true summit, previous listing, trail junction, main summit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Appalachian Trail, Acadia National Park, Map Sales, User Groups Hikers, Federal Center, Bar Harbor, Appalachian Mountain Club, Park Loop Road, Jordan Pond, Togue Pond, Mount Desert Island, Duck Harbor, Caribou Valley Road, Ridge Trail, Grafton Notch State Park, Sugarloaf Mountain, Baxter State Park-Katahdin, Directions Take, Brook Trail, Baxter Park, Chimney Pond, Cottage Street, Eagle Lake Road, Friends of Acadia, Harpers Ferry New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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