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The Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands is expecting a busy spring at state parks and public lands, after they shattered attendance records in 2020 with more than 3 million visitors to the state-run sites.
The Bureau of Parks and Lands, which is part of the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, said it anticipates the popularity of its outdoor destinations to continue this spring and urged those who plan to visit to plan ahead or have an alternative plan to avoid crowded parking areas and trailhead bottlenecks.
In 2020, the system recorded 3,067,112 visitors to 38 parks and 15 public sites, despite the fact that visitors from outside Maine state were restricted and 10 coastal state parks were closed from late March until June because of crowds.
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Worthy (and Rejuvenating) Day Trips in Winter are Still Possible from Rangeley …in spite of the limitations
By Allen Wicken
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Regular readers of North by NorthEast may recall my March or April column from a few years ago extolling the geographic location of the Rangeley Region and our proximity to some very interesting destinations for a long weekend or more within an easy 4 to 4 1/2-hour drive.
If those regular readers don’t recall every word of the column, they might remember the photo that accompanied the words. To make my point a bit more graphic (and inclusive), I enlisted a AAA road map of Maine. I drew an approximate 200-mile radius centered on the town of Rangeley with a Sharpie pen. To make that close-up photo of a Maine map centered on Rangeley a bit more interesting, I placed a very small likeness of a bull moose squarely over the Rangeley Region. Now do you remember the column?