A float plane on the dock of The Birches Resort on the western side of Moosehead Lake.
Photo Credit : Carl Tremblay
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2013 issue of Yankee and may have been updated for this special collection.A float plane on the dock of The Birches Resort on the western side of Moosehead Lake. Photo Credit : Carl Tremblay
A day by a lake brings the ultimate in summer pleasure … water at your door, a boat at your dock . . . where you can do everything, or nothing at all. Here are one noted travel writer’s personal favorites, each great in its own special way.
A cluster of seven bodies of water north of Augusta, the Belgrade Lakes in Maine draw visitors summer after summer to swim and fish in their cool, clear waters.
Considerably smaller than Winnipesaukee to the east, but about the same size as Sunapee to the southwest, New Hampshire’s Newfound Lake is a great daytrip lake.
Christina Tree
Christina Tree has contributed hundreds of travel articles to the Boston Globe and writes regularly for Yankee. She launched the Explorer’s Guide travel book series and has co-authored guides to Maine, New Hampshire, and the Berkshire Hills and Pioneer Valley. Tree lives with her husband in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
