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I'd like to take a 7- to 10-day trip down east in July. I will be camping, biking, hiking, and kayaking. So far all I have planned is day 1 Camden state park; day 2 Acadia; day 3 kayak camp at Donell Pond, and then on to McClellan Park in Milbridge. This year's steep increase in out-of-state camping fees at Maine state parks will keep me out of them for the most part except for Camden.
Questions:
1) I'll be taking my work with me. What's the likelihood that I'll be able to find wifi and work spaces like libraries up around Milbridge?
2) Any other suggestions for places to visit, beautiful scenery, lakes and ponds to kayak, bike routes, and easy shore hikes? Key phrase is "slow and easy." I'm a lake and pond kayaker, not much of a sea kayaker unless it's in a sheltered harbor or cover.
2) Nothing comes to mind really; the beaches there aren't so much beaches are rocky shores and keep in mind you're in the very "working waterfront" area of Maine now. The clam-diggers and fishermen will be wondering what you're doing if you're just strolling around.
I probably sound a bit pessimistic (although my answer to number 1 is genuine) but that's because I was born and raised in the town next to Milbridge, Harrington so I'm intimately familiar with the area. It's a part of Maine people pretty much just drive past for a reason, there isn't a lot... THERE. I mean your typical Maine woods etc but nothing that really stands out.
Great Wass Island over by Jonesport, has some good hiking trails. Roques Bluff over near Machais is pretty. Back in Winter Harbor is a part of Acadia that most never go to.
2) Nothing comes to mind really; the beaches there aren't so much beaches are rocky shores and keep in mind you're in the very "working waterfront" area of Maine now. The clam-diggers and fishermen will be wondering what you're doing if you're just strolling around.
I probably sound a bit pessimistic (although my answer to number 1 is genuine) but that's because I was born and raised in the town next to Milbridge, Harrington so I'm intimately familiar with the area. It's a part of Maine people pretty much just drive past for a reason, there isn't a lot... THERE. I mean your typical Maine woods etc but nothing that really stands out.
Well Jeremy, if you're not fond of your birthplace, what else would you recommend? I've been as far as Acadia many times and would like to venture beyond there, see something new, and find affordable camping. I've driven to Prince Edward Island many times and you're right, I never stopped anywhere between Ellsworth and New Brunswick.
It's a beautiful area, but from Winter/Prospect Harbor to Machias, there is pretty much nothing.
Roque Bluffs would probably be a nice place for you, a rare beach up there, but it is sea.
Great Wass was mentioned.
Get out to Lubec, you can hike West Quoddy Head and the Bold Coast for a whole day easily.
Schoodic Point is the cheaper version of Acadia (more like free, if you ask the locals).
Petit Manan, or you can take a charter out to the ocean to catch some whales, puffin, etc.
Once you leave Ellsworth, you leave WiFi. Cell service drops everywhere but the 1 and 1A.
Each town is very small, Machias is the hotbed other than Ellsworth (ha ha ha).
Thanks very much for the good ideas so far. I was looking at the Cutter reserve, with campsites up on the cliff overlooking the ocean. Looks very scenic. (Yeah I know, no wifi.)
Thanks for the library link. That's helpful. Yes, I have a DeLorme atlas.
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