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Best Places: Bangor

We considered every one of Maine’s 494 cities, towns, and plantations and asked our hearts: which places would we most like to call home?
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More Than a Store

The Fox Hill General Store in Wesley serves good food with a heaping helping of hospitality in the Down East woods.
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Maine Road Trip

Fill up the tank and get behind the wheel. In a new book Dan Tobyne shares the best drives Maine has to offer.
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Kineo

A new guide shows you how 
to climb Moosehead Lake’s 
famed mountain in the 
footsteps of Thoreau.
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Long, Strange, Lonely Trail

Hiking Maine's leg of the long (incredibly long, and still lengthening) International Appalachian Trail.
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The Winning Hand

A Moosehead Lake poker run is the way life should be in winter.
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The River Wild

One of the most ambitious river restorations ever undertaken in the United States is happening on the Penobscot River.
the International Seaplane Fly-In on Moosehead Lake in Greenville, Maine
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Every Year, Pilots From Around the World Gather in Greenville for the International Seaplane Fly-In

Nearly one hundred planes descend on Moosehead Lake the weekend after Labor Day to compete in a series of thrilling water and aerial events.
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Katahdin: The Mountain, The Muse

Maine’s hulking natural monolith has inspired landscape painters for well over a century.
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In the Shadow of Sugarloaf, A Ski Town Turned Summer Place

Kingfield no longer slumbers after the skiers have gone.
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North Woods Lawmen

A hit reality TV show has turned Maine game wardens into unlikely celebrities. By Paul Doiron Photographed by Jennifer Smith-Mayo...
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The Snows of Katahdin

Most people climb Maine’s highest peak in the summer, but some are daring enough to do it in the winter....
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