The array of Acadia National Park camping options allows you to pitch a tent and sleep among the trees, near the ocean, or close to mountain trails.
Maine
Along the Kennebec River lies Hallowell, Maine, a town where the cafés, the people, and the music create what locals call their “New Orleans of the North.”
A collection of black-and-white images by photographer Jamie Walter celebrating the beauty of Maine trees.
Lucas St. Clair’s mission was nearly impossible: to win support for Maine’s biggest swath of national park land despite controversy around its benefactor— who also happens to be his mother.
A vivid, colorful collection of images celebrating the natural beauty of Maine and its residents from photographer Greta Rybus.
A collection of images celebrating the beauty and outdoor delights of the western Maine mountains in winter from photographer Carl Tremblay.
The day of celebrating light dawns dark and cheerless. A cold east wind drives freezing mist up the valley, out of Caribou, across a half-dozen miles of frozen Aroostook potato field. In New Sweden the farmhouses are lit. On Jacobson Hill and Bondeson Corner, on Route 161 toward Jemtland, smoke rises from chimneys to greet […]
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A prime coastal getaway is also a surprisingly rich destination for foodies. Yankee’s senior food editor Amy Traverso shares her favorite places to eat in Camden, Maine.
A collection of images from John and Cynthia Ott celebrating the beauty of the High Peaks of Maine from their book, Enduring Heights.
Yankee Classic: November 1984 Press play to hear how the story happened. THEY PRESSED CLOSE in the cab of the truck, canoes lashed on top, jostling over logging roads, stirring great clouds of dust beneath a high summer sun. “I was just thinking,” said the old guide. “I first came down this river with my father. I […]
A few days before my trip up to central Maine, I was standing in line at a grocery store, unloading handfuls of protein bars, fruit, and other snacks onto the conveyor belt, when the patron in front of me made a friendly observation: “Looks like you’re ready for some backpacking.” Not quite, I told him—I […]