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Log jam at Ripogenus Gorge during 1870s log driving.. The North Maine Woods is the northern geographic area of the state of Maine in the United States.The thinly populated region is overseen by a combination of private individual and private industrial owners and state government agencies, and is divided into 155 unincorporated townships within the NMW management area. [1]
The Golden Road is a 96-mile (154 km) private road built by the Great Northern Paper Company that stretches from the St. Zacharie Border Crossing to its former mill at Millinocket, Maine. The road, which parallels the West Branch of the Penobscot River, was built between 1969 and 1972 to bring raw wood to the mill from the company's 2.1 million ...
In 2000, a series of new logging roads and a marked side-trail offered hikers re-supply and lodging opportunities between miles 55 and 65 heading northbound from Monson. 45°36.9′N 69°9.8′W / 45.6150°N 69.1633°W / 45.6150; -69.1633 ( Hundred-Mile Wilderness
In 1960 Gale and Mary Torrey of Poland, Maine leased the camps and land from several paper companies. There were very few roads in the area at that time and access was via a 4-wheel drive road starting from a parking lot at Big Lyford Pond near Kokadjo and proceeding southerly along the west side of the Pleasant River.
logging roads, then bushwhack East Kennebago Mountain is a trailless mountain located in Franklin County , Maine . East Kennebago Mtn. is a monadnock , flanked by its spurs : Tim Mountain to the north, Black Spur to the west, and Blackcat Mountain to the southwest.
Pittston Farm is a historic farm and community complex in a remote part of northern Somerset County, Maine.Located down logging roads about 20 miles (32 km) north of the village of Rockwood, the farm was developed c. 1910 by the Great Northern Paper Company to provide food and other resources to workers on logging drives in Maine's northern forests.
The St. Zacharie, Maine – St. Zacharie, Quebec border crossing on the Canada–US border is one of four in the Maine Highlands.Two miles south of Little Saint John Lake, it is the westernmost crossing used primarily by people and vehicles involved in logging the forests in the North Maine Woods. [1]
The Saint Just de Bretenières–St. Juste Maine Border Crossing is primarily used by Canadian logging trucks to access the privately owned land in Maine. This crossing was opened in 2003 when it was determined that access for logging operations was better at this location than at Daaquam about 3 miles to the north.