The campground and pond are located in township T3 R10 WELS. The 35-acre pond has a maximum depth of 26 feet and an average of 10 feet. The trail around the pond is about one mile. Daicey Pond had been known by that name since at least 1900. The pond was probably named after the…
Kidney Pond in Baxter State Park is a 95-acre lake, 33 feet at its deepest. Most of the campground’s cabins line the northwest shoreline. Cooking must be done outside the cabins with Coleman-style stoves on the porch, on picnic tables, or on outdoor fireplaces. All cabins may use the community fireplace located in the lawn area. Fire…
(above) Fourth Machias Lake, rough beach, and boat launch site in Sakom Township (2013) Sakom Township, also known as T5 ND BPP, is certainly a “land of lakes.” Included within it boundaries are major segments of Sysladobis Lake, Pocumus Lake, and Fourth…
This is an unorganized township in Penobscot County just east of the north entrance to Baxter State Park. It is the gateway to that portion of the Park by way of the Grand Lake Road from Shin Pond along its southern boundary. The eastern portion of Grand Lake Matagamon dominates the western portion of…
settled by Europeans in 1771, in Cumberland County, incorporated in 1841, is on the north shore of Sebago Lake. The Songo Lock, built about 1830, linked Long Pond and Brandy Pond with Sebago Lake, allowing boat passage from Harrison to Portland. Nathaniel Hawthorne, author and Bowdoin College graduate was its most prominent resident.