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Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man
It's an illusion. Tourism doesn't bring many dollars to Millinocket. The tourists arrive self contained with their tents or campers for lodging. They bring most of their own food and even have enough gas to make it back down to Old Town or Sam's to fill up for the ride home. Motels do OK with the snowmobilers, but they increasingly stay in Greenville or points north. Most hunters and fishermen are also self contained. Canoe trippers are self contained. I think the big money is made by the gate fee system illegally begun several years ago.
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Yep. I suppose you are right indeed.
But of course, that's not what the Maine board of tourism (if there is one) wants us to believe.
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