Maine Parking Info

Section: Mt. Katahdin to Southern Nahmakanta Lake
Mile Marker	Directions, Comments, Source, Map Link, and Year Last Reviewed	Number of Vehicles
5.20 miles Katahdin Stream Campgound	car --- http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.887063%2C-68.999612&num=1&t=h&sll=45.886154%2C… --- 2010
5.20 miles Katahdin Stream Campgound	From the Togue Pond Gate (south entrance) to Baxter State Park drive west/northwest 8 miles on the Baxter State Park Tote (Nesowadnehunk) Road to the Katahdin Stream Campground entrance. Then go .1 mile up the driveway on your right. Allow 30 minutes for the 8 mile drive from the Togue Pond Gate as this is dirt road. --- Baxter State Park Authority restricts the number of vehicles that can park at the trailheads. At the gate you must declare your intentions. If you are climbing Mt. Katahdin, make sure you are at the gate by 5 AM on weekend mornings (6 AM-weekdays) if not earlier. Restrictions are much looser if you already have reservations in the park, but that requires significant advanced planning and reservations to be made many months in advance. Do not just show up expecting to get a campsite in the park. --- Aaron Schoenberg --- 2006	30 Parking is restricted by Park Authorities.
5.90 miles Tracy Pond	car --- http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.890722%2C-69.009451&num=1&t=h&sll=45.893074%2C… --- 2010
7.60 miles Daicey Pond	From the Togue Pond Gate (south entrance) to Baxter State Park drive west/northwest 10 miles on the Baxter State Park Tote (Nesowadnehunk) Road to Daicey Pond Road. Then go 2 miles on this road to your left. Allow 45 minutes for the 12 mile drive from the Togue Pond Gate as this is dirt road. --- I never parked here but it is a good access point for dayhiking southbound on the AT along the Nesowadnehunk Stream past the Big & Little Niagara Falls. Also, this location is for a group of park rental cabins. Reservations for these cabins must be made well in advance. The famous view of Katahdin across Daicey Pond is also located here along with canoe rentals. 3/9/06 --- Aaron Schoenberg --- 2006	I am really not sure of the number. Note that the Baxter Park Authority restricts. At Togue Gate indicate your destination of Daicey Pond & hiking AT southbound.
7.60 miles Daicey Pond	http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.882339%2C-69.031993&num=1&t=h&sll=45.890576%2C… --- 2010
15.10 miles Abol Bridge	From Millinocket, follow signs toward Baxter State Park. Eight miles from Millinocket, you will see Big Moose Inn on the right. Make a left for 50 yards and then a right. Now you are at the causeway of Millinocket Lake on Golden Road. Continue 11 more miles to Abol Bridge. Allow 30 minutes for the 19 mile trip (all paved road). Before the bridge is the Abol Bridge Campground Store. I have asked for permission within the store and parked here (9/02). Official parking according to ME AT Map and Guide is just after crossing the bridge on the left side of the road. --- Northbound: From here you enter Baxter State Park. A great 15 mile circular hike with only the first and last mile retracing steps, no park entry fee or restrictions, no car shuttle, easy terrain (1250 total elevation gain), takes you past Katahdin Stream Campground (MM 5.2) is to use the Blueberry Ledge Trail at MM 14.2 to complete the loop. It starts on the AT and comes out .4 mile east of Katahdin Stream Campground at The Birches Campsite on the Baxter Park Road. Return southbound with AT. Southbound: Start of entry into Hundred Mile Wilderness. Backpacking required. 3/10/06 --- Aaron Schoenberg --- 2006	100 Unlimited parking on both sides of the Abol Bridge over the West Branch of the Penobscot River. Two campgrounds and a store are located here. The trail goes along the road here for .5 mile.
15.10 miles Abol Bridge	2/14/08 --- http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=&daddr=45.835318%2C-68.965… --- 2010
15.10 miles Abol Bridge	2/14/08 --- http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.835323%2C-68.968171&num=1&t=h&sll=45.835079%2C… --- 2010
15.10 miles Abol Bridge	The road to Abol Bridge is NOT all paved. 08/23/15 --- Lisa Maccarone --- 2016
32.50 miles Pollywog Stream Bridge - logging road	The directions indicated on your website are OK, I have been there last week, May 20 to May 25, 2011. --- Hi. Thank you for your website, it was very helpfull for me because I made the 100 miles Wilderness in three years. I Just want to answer a question that is on your website: There is no other fee to continue beyond Henderson Checkpoint when going to Pollywog stream. Henderson checkpoint is an unmanned gate, where there is a phone and we must call the number indicated at this gate to make it open because Henderson checkpoint is the entry point of Maine Public reserve land. It is about one hour on a gravel road from Maine Highway 11 to Pollywog stream. 05/28/11 --- Mathieu Boily --- 2011	2