This sort of detail doesn't come about overnight. These pages may be the keystone to the Gazetteer's particular allure, as they provide fodder for an endless string of weekend outings or spur-of-the-moment trips to places like the crash site of a B-52 bomber on Elephant Mountain. It employs three notations for camping sites: One for commercial campgrounds, another for 'maintained forest campsites,' and a third marking 'primitive campsites' where one must get permission from a local landowner.Ī lengthy section at the front of the book provides descriptions and map coordinates for hiking trails, recreational areas and historic sites.

The book's pages bristle with a range of icons denoting boat launches, lighthouses, swampy areas, lookout towers, lean-tos and ranger stations. 'Map 15' points out and names each and every land mass in the waters off the midcoast town of Stonington, even virtual pebbles like Potato Island.

But DeLorme's atlas, which divides the state into about 70 11-by-15-inch maps, rewards the truly curious, labeling tiny tributaries like Dragon Meadow Brook, a two-mile trickle in the Lakes Region town of Denmark. Most any map will point out lakes and rivers. It's the sort of stuff that can really help you avoid getting lost, or as they say here, 'turned around.' The DeLorme maps depict the surprisingly intricate network of backwoods logging trails tattooed into these areas in extreme detail, and add information not necessarily available from a GPS, such as spots where a road could potentially be blocked or washed out, and the location of places like the Five Finger Camp, a remote outpost in 'T14 R12 WELS.' Both Crosen's and DeLorme's maps are differentiated by their grasp of local details.įor example, a major swath of northern Maine is so underpopulated that many sections are identified with combinations of letters and numbers, instead of traditional town or district names.

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