The Appalachian Mountain Club’s Maine Woods Initiative is a 404 square kilometer area of land in the 100-Mile Wilderness. It is made up of largely uninhabited forest in the northern part of Maine, ...

Maine has more than 60 lighthouses marking its shoreline. West Quoddy Lighthouse, the eastern most lighthouse in the United States, marks the point where the sun first rises each day in this country.

Also, visiting Maine in winter means far fewer people than ... a navigational beacon to ships at sea, whether in the dark or ...

Rosenberg is one of the last lighthouse keepers in Maine, where he maintains the Nubble lighthouse, a popular tourist attraction that draws a million visitors each year to York. In 1889 ...

Two of those Dark Sky Places are in Maine. Where are the Dark Sky Places ... Woods and Waters National Monument, as well as two winter huts. Astronomer Dr. David Koerner told USA TODAY in November ...