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mountainman51
New Jersey
Worth visiting!
Why I recommend this place to visitors
Another amazing place to hike. I’ve been here numerous times and have never had clear weather but I keep going back and keep sending friends. There is something about the place that calls you to return, over and over and over…..
hovey1127
Lincoln
Worth visiting!
The First Time.
The first time I visited Baxter was in 1987, a friend Steve and I left our girlfriends at home and headed up for a week of hiking and fishing and camping. Wonderful weather and great fishing made it a trip to remember. See images and write up at my hiking site http://wisdomtales.com/hiking click the Summer trips link and then 1987. Enjoy!
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Baxter State Park is one of Maine's crown jewels, even more spectacular in some ways than Acadia National Park. This 204,000-acre state park in the remote north-central part of the state is unlike more elaborate state parks you may be accustomed to elsewhere -- don't look for fancy bathhouses or groomed picnic areas. When you enter Baxter State Park, you enter near-wilderness. Former Maine governor and philanthropist Percival Baxter single-handedly created the park, using his inheritance and investment profits to buy the property and donate it to the state in 1930. Baxter stipulated that it remain "forever wild." Caretakers have done a good job fulfilling his wishes.
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