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…
Allow us to reintroduce ourselves; we are the Rubys of ‘Rubys on the Road’. The blog posts will be slowly coming back after about an 18 months hiatus. Did we stop doing what we do? Nope. Did we just run out of free time to write about them? Yup. We aren’t big on social media but we tried to keep that updated with most of our Maine adventures, but finding time to write and publish posts has been on the…
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…
Damariscotta Lake State Park is located in Jefferson, Maine and not in the more well known town of Damariscotta, aka the oyster capital of New England. A tad confusing at first but when you see that Damariscotta Lake is a whopping 10 miles long and pretty much runs the distance between the two towns, it makes much more sense. Still, that’s about a 20 minute drive by car, and from Portland to the park, it was an hour and 15…
When we got back to the car after a couple hours of snowshoeing around Androscoggin Riverlands State Park, we both seemed quite shocked on how well things went. You see, it was the first time Adeline was in the hiking backpack and we never thought to do a dry run, nor did we have a backup plan if she hated it. All things we did way back when, with Eloise. This time we just took off and the “what ifs”…
Drum roll please…and the best family campground goes to… Peaks Kenny State Park! Well at this point, we still have a few more to go. This trip marks #10 out of the 12 Maine State Park family campgrounds. We were split on favorites before with one of us on team Lily Bay and the other rolling with team Cobscook, but after this weekend, Peak Kenny has claimed the #1 spot for the both of us; just for now of course. We…
Believe it or not but one of the most gratifying things over this weekend was watching other campers. This park is one of the most visited in the state for its beautiful surroundings and lake setting, yet at times we were people watching like it was a terminal at Logan Airport. First observation, it was about 70% people from Massachusetts, 20% New York and 10% Maine. This could have just been the case in our little cove and by no…
Did you know that you can sign up for a newsletter and alerts from Maine’s Bureau of Parks and Lands? They will even text you if you want, after you set your preferences! The majority of the time they’ll send monthly newsletters about what is happening all over the state and information about events. It is a wonderful way to stay informed throughout the year. Once in a while it’s used to send out alerts about trail conditions at a…
Canada hugs more than half our state and if you toss in the ocean we are surrounded mostly by an international border or water. If your plan is to pack up and move to Canada, just know that if you cross the border via the F.D. Roosevelt International Bridge, Campobello Island is as far as you’ll get by car. You’d have to jump on a boat to get anywhere else in Canada. This almost makes it sound like visiting this…
This trip was planned but then postponed back in the fall. The reason? We just didn’t have it in us after a very busy summer and a big trip in September, so we scaled back to something else and it worked out perfectly. This time around, we were counting down the days to pack up the car and hit the road. The destination wasn’t a quick one and when delaying the trip we didn’t take into effect that…