Hiking Maine’s Baxter State Park: A Guide to the Park’s Greatest Hiking Adventures Including Mount Katahdin

Westrich (Hiking Maine’s Waterfalls) offers a guide to hiking or backpacking throughout all of Maine. Divided into two sections—“Day Hikes” and “Backpacking Trips”—the book gives readers an abundance of information to plan their excursions. Day hike areas include Horse Mount, Black Cat Mountain, Middle Fowler Pond, Howe Brook Falls, and more. Backpacking routes travel to Katahdin Lake, North West Basin, Russell Pond, Grand Pitch, and Webster Stream, to name a few. In both sections, readers are provided with details about where to find the trail head, elevation, distance, maximum grade, what time of the year is best to visit, the level of difficulty, hiking time, trail surface, nearest town, availability of water, and more. The book also notes the history of each highlighted area and includes colorful maps.