baxter state park

Published
March 16, 2025

Challenging skiing on Hammond Ridge Trails
Published
April 15, 2024

Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Stormy days in Baxter State Park
Published
April 7, 2024

Seniors Not Acting Their Age: A glorious climb of barren Barrel Ridge
Published
April 1, 2024

Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Traversing the renowned Traveler Loop
Published
February 14, 2024

State panel rejects proposed mine near Baxter State Park

The Land Use Planning Commission voted 5-2 Wednesday to deny the rezoning bid from Wolfden LLC.

Published
August 30, 2023

Six Maine hikers rescued after spending night on Mount Katahdin’s Knife Edge trail

The 21-hour rescue operation included a helicopter evacuation of a 20-year-old woman who became unconscious on the rocky and exposed ridge in Baxter State Park.
Published
August 22, 2023

Research at Baxter seeks to identify plants that will adapt to global warming

Scientists say sediment taken from below Chimney Pond, and other Alpine lakes in the Northeast, will yield a fossil record of the plants – those that have died out and those that have survived – since the last ice age.
Published
April 18, 2023

Maine Warden Service veteran appointed new director of Baxter State Park

He replaces Eben Sypitkowski, who left as the park director in early 2022 to become director of land management for The Nature Conservancy in Maine.
Published
April 10, 2023

Seniors Not Acting Their Age: A Baxter State Park winter expedition, Part II — challenging climbs
Published
February 23, 2023

Baxter’s terms complicate tribes’ wish for role in Katahdin oversight

The tribes of Maine want a formal role in managing this sacred site, but strict rules on how the donated land must be governed don't allow for the expansion of the authority board.