Hiking Maine’s Baxter State Park

From Grand Pitch on remote Webster Stream to the blueberry covered summit of The Sentinel to dozens of waterfalls and swimming holes on Howe Brook, this revised edition of Hiking Maine’s Baxter State Park is your source for detailed hike descriptions, maps, and color photos for Baxter State Park’s best hikes. Also included are iconic routes up Katahdin, easy walks to ponds and wetlands where wildlife regularly feed, multi-day trips within the park, and hikes along the southern most section of the International Appalachian Trail.

Greg Westrich has lived in He lives in the woods north of Bangor, Maine since 1996. Greg has visited every state but Hawaii and almost every Canadian province. Don’t ask him about hiking unless you have a couple of hours to spare. Greg’s day job is teaching writing and literature at Husson University in Bangor and at Eastern Maine Community College. You can follow Greg’s adventures on Facebook or his website, gregwestrich.com. There are videos of many of the hikes in this guide on his Facebook page. He regularly gives slideshows for clubs and libraries around Maine.