Thursday, September 16, 2010
Katahdin Shadows Campground, Medway, ME July 15-19
This campground is not really in Katahdin's shadow, but it's close. It is a fairly nice, medium-high priced cg near Medway. It is quite family oriented, so there are more children than we prefer. It's full of bunnies -- not wild bunnies but fairly domesticated bunnies running loose. They're quite cute running about & eating the grass. Sometimes you can even pet them. When our cats see them it's quite amusing! There is a lot of hiking around here, but it rained a lot during our stay, so we just took a couple of fairly long drives to see the area. The extensive woods interspersed with the large lakes are quite impressive. We drove along "The Golden Road", a long road that winds from Millinocket to Greenville through forests belonging to the paper companies. We only went along part of it. It is noted for wildlife; we didn't see anything but lovely views.
There were especially impressive views of Mt. Katahdin along the way. Baxter State Park is a special area of land donated by a former gov of ME. Unfortunately our truck is too wide (they have length, width & height restrictions) to enter the park. However, on our last day, the sun came out; 20 min later we were on our way to a trailhead just outside the park. We hiked along the App Trail into the park for about 4 hrs, mostly along the Penobscot River. We were fortunate enough to see a young cow moose grazing in a pond by the trail. We named her Heiferwinkle & enjoyed watching her for a while. While driving home, safely in the car, we saw a bear cub running across the road. Mom was nowhere in sight. Our first bear in the wild!# posted by Doug and Willie @ 9:16 PM 
