Baxter State Park, Mount Katahdin and Google Photos

I don't know if anyone likes Google Photos more than I do.  I'm always creating new Albums and finding new faces in People, it's distractingly fun and always leads to more interesting things to do with your photos and albums.

Baxter State Park and Mount Katahdin

Today Google Photos reminded me what we were doing 1 year ago and created this beautiful collage from that day.

At that time we were winding our way through the North Eastern United States on our 2017 East Coast trip and had just left Acadia National Park in Maine.

On the way to Katahdin Woods and Waters NM

It had already been an amazing trip, and we decided to get as close to Canada as we could and do some hiking before heading down to Lake Placid and Niagara Falls.

While trip planning at Acadia, we read about Mount Katahdin, being the end-point of the Appalachian Trail,

Baxter State Park, surrounding Mt. Katahdin and the largest state park in Maine, and

the newly-minted Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, the last National Monument established by President Obama, which boarders Baxter State Park.

So we decided to head to northern Maine and experience the best hiking Maine had to offer.  We chose a small private park, Katahdin Shadows campground in Medway, Maine, that had pretty good internet so Lupe could continue working online.

As it turned out Katahdin Shadows was a family-owned park and run a lot like a KOA, with lots of things happening at the pool for kids.  They had a luau the weekend we were there.  We really enjoyed our stay.

Our 3 days in the area hiking were amazing.  We got to explore beautiful hiking trails, mountains, rivers, streams, and lakes.

The views were amazing and the air wonderfully clear.

Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument

The next time we head to Acadia NP we will definitely plan a week at Baxter State Park, Mount Katahdin, and the National Monument.

We didn't get all the way up the 5267' Mountain, but we did hike a few miles of the Appalachian Trail.  Until next time!

Here's our Google Photo Album for this part of our trip.