St. Croix Island International Historic Site (U.S. & Canada)
Red Beach (Calais), Maine
Operated by the U.S. National Park Service
Viewable in New Brunswick from the road near Bayside.
- Pavilion and Boat Ramp. The first European settlement north of Florida, where Samuel Champlain and Pierre Dugua the Sieur de Mons wintered in 1604. A visitor pavilion on the St. Croix Riverbank, with bronze statues, looking out to St. Croix Island (formerly known as Dochet's Island).
An international celebration of the 1604 settlement is planned for 2004. For details, visit www.stecroix2004.org .
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Campobello Island
New Brunswick
Herring Cove Provincial Park
Welshpool, Campobello Island, New Brunswick
- Rustic, wooded campground. Mile-long Herring Cove Beach on the Bay of Fundy. Playground, public golf course nearby. Hiking trails through woods, past freshwater ponds, and along rugged coastal shoreline.
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Roosevelt-Campobello International Park
Welshpool, Campobello Island, New Brunswick
(Open daily, from Saturday after Victoria Day -- the Saturday before US Memorial Day -- through Canadian Thanksgiving -- U.S. Columbus Day. Visiting hours at the Visitor Centre and Cottage Museum are 7 days a week from 10 am - 6 pm AT (New Brunswick) / 9 am - 5 pm ET (Maine). Natural Area is open all year, although roads may not be plowed in winter.)
The world's first international park.
- Visitor Centre (Summers only)
- The resource and orientation center for the park offers literature, displays, and a short film about the Roosevelts, Campobello Island, and the International Park.
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- Cottage Museum (Summers only)
- American Presidential couple Franklin Delano Roosevelt & Eleanor Roosevelt's summer "cottage" museum includes the neighboring ice house and Hubbard House. Four other "cottages" in the park are used for conferences.
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- Natural Area (Open all year; however, road accessibility depends on winter weather.)
- Numerous hiking trails, picnic areas, rocky beaches. Overlooks with orientation displays, a boreal bog with vegetation displays and rare plants, and the eastern 1/3 of the intracontinental granite Sunsweep Sculpture.
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- Friar's Head (Open all year; however, road closed in winter.)
- This promontory offers a viewing platform with displays and a spectacular panoramic view. See West Quoddy Head, Lubec, the Eastport, and Deer Island, along with the adjoining waterways, Johnson Bay, Friar Roads, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Bridge, and other parts of Campobello Island. At mid-tide to low water, you'll be able to see one of the tidal dams built during the ill-fated Quoddy Tidal Power Project.
- A trail leads from the overlook down to the shore where, at low water, the adventuresome can walk the intertidal zone to visit the stoic stone "Friar," who stands watch at the foot of the head.
- The road leading to the overlook provides several pleasant picnic sites, and a hand pump for fresh water.
- Mulholland Point Light & Picnic Area (Accessible all year)
- Perhaps the first thing you'll notice after passing through Canada Customs when entering Campobello Island is Mulholland Point Light. The lighthouse and picnic area offer a wonderful view of the town of Lubec, the Roosevelt Memorial International Bridge, Lubec Channel Light, numerous islands, and 2.5-mile - distant Moose Island, Eastport.
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Cutler
Maine
Bold Coast Trail
Cutler, Maine
- Hiking Trails.
This site is included in the Cobscook Trails Guide, available for purchase.
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Deer Island
New Brunswick
Deer Island Point Park
Deer Island, New Brunswick
- Camping, trailer hookups, picnicking, saltwater sandy and rocky beach (no swimming, due to the Old Sow Whirlpool, just off shore), laundromat, restrooms, pay telephone; 40 acres, with a nautical beacon tower, and with views of Western Passage, Indian Island, Eastport, and island other views.
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Eastport
Bell's Mountain & Crane Mountain
Edmunds, Maine
- Trails, Scenic Views. These small mountains offer forested trails, with views of Whiting Bay and the forests of the Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge Edmunds division. The Bell Mountain trail passes by unusual rock outcroppings.
This site is included in the Cobscook Trails Guide, available for purchase.
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Cobscook Bay State Park
Edmunds, Maine
- Camping, picnicking, saltwater boat ramp, hiking, cross-country skiing.
This site is included in the Cobscook Trails Guide, available for purchase.
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Hallowell Island Preserve
Edmunds, Maine
Undeveloped--no developed trails.
- The trail is the shoreline of this forested island. Blueberry barrens and cranberry bogs edge one end of the island. Access requires a boat.
This site is included in the Cobscook Trails Guide, available for purchase.
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Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge
Two locations--
Baring, Maine
- Hiking trails, birding, woodcock research. Headquarters in Baring, Maine, provides literature and an orientation display about the wildlife, trails, and programs at the refuge. Ongoing woodcock protection and research is conducted here. The Refuge's area along US Route 1 north of Calais has an Eagle Observation Area, where -- during the months of February - June -- nesting bald eagles and ospreys can be observed nearby.
Edmunds, Maine
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Grand Manan Island
New Brunswick
Anchorage Provincial Park
Seal Cove, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick
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Lubec
Maine
Boot Head Preserve
Lubec, Maine
- Hiking trail, scenic views, birding. One trail is along cliffs overlooking the Bay of Fundy and Grand Manan Island. Another trail leads to a pebble-cobble beach.
This site is included in the Cobscook Trails Guide, available for purchase.
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Horan Head
Lubec, Maine
- Hiking, scenic views, wildlife. This site consists of a series of looped trails along South Bay and Federal Harbor within Cobscook Bay.
This site is included in the Cobscook Trails Guide, available for purchase.
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[West*] Quoddy Head State Park
Lubec, Maine
- Picnic site, rugged hiking trails, boreal bog. On rugged, rocky cliffs overlooking Grand Manan Island across Grand Manan Channel in the Bay of Fundy, whales are sighted here in season. Right next to the park entrance sits West Quoddy Head Lighthouse, and just offshore, Sail Rock -- the easternmost terrestrial piece of the United States.
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- * "Quoddy Head State Park" is a misnomer, since the location is actually West Quoddy Head. Nearby East Quoddy Head is by Head Harbour Lighthouse at the northeastern end of Campobello Island, NB, Canada.
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- (Photograph: Sail Rock with ice & seasmoke in winter. © 1997 Old Sow Publishing.)
This site is included in the Cobscook Trails Guide, available for purchase.
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South Lubec Sand Bar
Lubec, Maine
- Birding, scenic views, intertidal zone. A sand "spit" within Lubec Channel, this site affords a walk on a sand bar (a rarity in this region), by a salt marsh, with views of the Lubec Channel Light and Carrying Place Cove Bog, and expansive clam flats which contribute to the area economy. The flats also serve as a "refueling" site for migratory shore birds.
This site is included in the Cobscook Trails Guide, available for purchase.
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Stockford Park (Town Park)
Lubec, Maine
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Machias
Maine
Bad Little Falls Park
Machias, Maine
- Scenic view.
Although a glimpse of the falls can be had while driving along Highway US 1 through town, the best viewing is by parking in the lot along Rt 92. This provides easy access to the footbridge suspended above the torrential falls. Here, water frequently turns reddish-brown and foams, due to tannin from cedar trees in distant tributaries.
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Machiasport
Maine
Fort O'Brien State Park
Machiasport, Maine
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Oak Bay
New Brunswick
Oak Bay Campground
Oak Bay, New Brunswick
- Camping, Swimming. Sandy, estuary beach spills into saltwater Oak Bay.
Note: Formerly Oak Bay Provincial Park, this is now leased by the provincial government to private enterprise.
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Pembroke
Maine
Reversing Falls Park (Town Park)
Pembroke, Maine
- Camping, picnicking, brief hiking, fossil hunting along the shore at low water, wildlife. Overlooks beautiful Cobscook Reversing Falls, an impressive tidal eddy over large rocks in Cobscook Bay, which reverses nearly instantaneously -- there is no "slack water" between tides. The water rushing over the rocks gives the impression of a waterfall. Seals, eagles, and seabirds are frequently seen here.
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- Note: High and low water at this location occur more than one hour later than at Eastport's tide sensing station, so you may want to plan accordingly.
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This site is included in the Cobscook Trails Guide, available for purchase.
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Perry
Maine
45th Parallel Geographical Marker & Roadside Rest
Perry, Maine
- Granite marker indicates the halfway point between the Equator and the North Pole.
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Gleason Cove Park & Boat Ramp
Perry, Maine
- Large Grassy Area, Boat Ramp, Beach, with views of Gleason Cove, Western Passage, and Deer Island. This is an excellent location for night skywatching and observing the occasional aurora borealis.
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Red Beach, Calais
Maine
St. Croix Island International Historic Site (U.S. & Canada)
--Operated by the U.S. National Park Service
Red Beach, Calais, Maine
Viewable in New Brunswick from the road near Bayside.
- Pavilion and Boat Ramp. The first European settlement north of Florida, where Samuel Champlain and Pierre Dugua the Sieur de Mons wintered in 1604. A visitor pavilion on the St. Croix Riverbank, with displays in English and French, looks out to St. Croix Island (also known -- especially in New Brunswick -- as Dochet's Island).
An international celebration of the 1604 settlement is planned for 2004. For details, visit www.stecroix2004.org .
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Roque Bluffs
Maine
Roque Bluffs State Park
Roque Bluffs, Maine
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St. Andrews
New Brunswick
St. Andrews Blockhouse National Historic Site
St. Andrews, New Brunswick
- A restored, authentic blockhouse with cannon, built to defend St. Andrews from American attack during the War of 1812.
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Sunbury Shores
St. Andrews, New Brunswick
- Hiking trail (and Art Gallery)
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Trescott
Maine
Commissary Point & Rocky Point
Trescott, Maine
- Hiking trails, scenic views, wildlife. A series of trails with views of Whiting Bay and the Orange River.
This site is included in the Cobscook Trails Guide, available for purchase.
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Morong Point
Trescott, Maine
- Unmarked walking route, wildlife. Open fields and wetlands adorn this site, along the mudflats of Morong Cove.
This site is included in the Cobscook Trails Guide, available for purchase.
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