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Mount Katahdin, photographed from the park. Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument is a U.S. national monument spanning 87,563 acres (137 sq mi) of mountains and forestland in northern Penobscot County, Maine, including a section of the East Branch Penobscot River. [1]
Mount Katahdin (/ k ə ˈ t ɑː d ɪ n / kə-TAH-din) is the highest mountain in the U.S. state of Maine at 5,269 feet (1,606 m). Named Katahdin, which means "Great Mountain", [3] by the Penobscot Native Americans, it is within Northeast Piscataquis, Piscataquis County, and is the centerpiece of Baxter State Park.
President Barack Obama created or expanded 34 national monuments by proclamation, the most of any president, with over half a billion acres of public land and water protected. [7] [8] [5] National monuments are located in 33 states, Washington, D.C., the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Minor Outlying Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
It stayed as Cape Krusenstern National Monument. [15] S.222 - Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1979: Chiricahua National Park Arizona 2016 Nearby town of Wilcox, AZ has been pushing for redesignation of Chiricahua National Monument as a national park. First introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016 and in the U.S ...
The national monument is now considered a walk-in park, open to the public year-round from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with the exception of Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. A seven-day pass costs $15 for ...
It is in the North Maine Woods region and borders the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument on the east. The park was established by 28 donations of land, in trust, from park donor Percival P. Baxter between the years of 1931 and 1962, eventually creating a park of over 200,000 acres (809 km 2) in size.
Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming Navajo National Monument, Arizona Statue of Liberty National Monument, New Jersey and New York Fort Matanzas National Monument, Florida In the United States , a national monument is a protected area that can be created from any land owned or controlled by the federal government by proclamation of the ...
The International Appalachian Trail (IAT; French: Sentier international des Appalaches, SIA) was originally a hiking trail which ran from Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, in Maine, through New Brunswick, to the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec, after which it followed a ferry route to Newfoundland, and then continued to the northern-easternmost point of the Appalachian Mountains at Belle ...