Before tourists ventured into Baxter State Park, and onto its mile-high peak named Katahdin, there were the photographs. Black and white — and eventually color — postcards and other views captured the ...

The Chimney Pond bunkhouse is pitch dark and dead quiet when I climb out of my warm sleeping bag at 4 a.m., a half-hour before the alarm. Wide awake for an hour already, I feel like a kid on Christmas ...

As soon as I turned onto the road last weekend that leads into Baxter State Park, Maine’s 200,000-acre wilderness reserve, it was evident Pamola had been busy. Puddles dotted the road and the steep ...

Difficulty: Very strenuous. Cathedral Trail leads up an extremely steep slope to the top of Katahdin, Maine’s tallest mountain. While there are no ladders or rungs, this trail requires a lot of ...