In the last 8 years, we have written approximately 50 blog posts highlighting all of Maine’s State Parks, some of the Public Lands or Historic Sites, and lessons we’ve learned along the way. It’s always personal when you put your feelings and family experiences on paper, but this one hits different. This time we took our favorite people on earth to our favorite place on earth. The Allagash Wilderness Waterway. It was almost like everything we have done has led…
The Moosehead Lake region is one part of Maine that we haven’t spent a lot of time in as a family. It might sound crazy to some but Maine can be overwhelming at times with its size and beauty. You can’t see and do it all, especially with full time jobs that have nothing to do with camping, hiking and sightseeing. It’s just far enough from Portland that day trips are tricky with little kids and with no real connections…
We lumped Baxter State Park into our running list of camping trips because why not? “Why not” actually became the theme of the weekend because when you’re doing any type of wilderness camping, “who cares” and “you might as well” is the best mindset. Special guests, Memere and Pepere joined our traveling circus on this one! Just because “state park” is in its title, Baxter is not considered one of the 12 family campgrounds operated by Maine’s Bureau of Parks…
It’s been a few weeks since we returned from our biggest family adventure to date. Even with the built in buffer day, we weren’t prepared for jumping back into our normal routine. Eloise was the only one who seemed fine on our first day back to the grind, but come Thursday her wheels came off too. You’d think after 8 days away from home we would be eager to get back, and we were…to a point. We LOVE our jobs…
Trivia time…name the Maine state park that has the honor of being established first? If you guessed Aroostook State Park then you are correct. It probably helped a little that this post is about Aroostook State Park but nice work anyway. For being correct we’ll send you a Rubys on the Road koozie when we finally get around to designing them. Founded in 1938 after a wonderful donation from the residents of Presque Isle, the park has grown nicely to…
2 Nights Camping Fee: We feel like kids writing home from summer camp with this post about Lily Bay State Park: Dear Mom and Dad, You would not believe how amazing this place is. I know everyone said it would be great and it’s not like we didn’t believe them, but we just didn’t think it would be this cool! P.S. Can we come back next year? Sincerely, Us Many people told us that Lily Bay State Park is their…