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Mini Vacations In Maine

Mini vacations in Maine.

During COVID, the ability to venture up into Maine has been tougher on some states than others. I always remind anyone planning to cross the big green southern bridge to check with www.me.gov . To know for sure who’s on the naughty or nice list and gets a travel pass depending on your state’s high or low coronavirus numbers .

When you live in Maine, vacations closer to where you live in the state happen a lot.

Hearty Lunch, All Fueled Snowmobilers Ready To Hit The Trails! Riding And Exploring Hidden Communities In Maine.

You are already here. Being socially distant and practicing safety pandemic protocols is not so hard due to our small Maine population. No traffic or grid lock slowing travel down in Maine. Outdoors any season is the reason we hang our hat in Maine over any other location.

This past Martin Luther King weekend, a quick trip mini instate vacation to Millinocket Lake happened.

The New England Outdoor Center is a hidden facility ideal for couples, families, small groups to tap into some Maine recreation.

My first experience with NEOC was white water rafting the Penobscot River.

The flow of water out of hydro electric dam controls the speed of the watery ride through Exterminator and other creatively named river locations.

Paddling hard, digging into the rushing cold river water for right, left or lift directions hollered out by the guy or gal sitting on the back of your bright yellow colored raft. Sometimes it’s “HOLD!” shouted out which means one arm raised high holding your paddle. While other reaches for the short rope secured to the raft floor as a wall of water enters your boat and hits whoever sat up front the hardest of river ride companions.

My youngest son Elliot was a river guide on the Penobscot River for Northern Outdoors during college summers.

Working in the River’s Edge Restaurant nights, helping tourists with wet suits and water vests work up an appetite and to stay in the boat days.

River Driver’s Restaurant To Fill Your Stomach After Spending A Winter Day Outside.

Heading To Eat After Tramping Outside On A Maine Winter Day. The River Driver’s NEOC Lodge.

This weekend no climbing into a raft or holding a paddle. It’s winter which means snowmobiling, cross country skiing. To hike up and down twisting groomed woods trails wearing a pair of snow shoes. Everyone well distanced on the trail. Being a ways up I-95 into the belly of real Maine means less campers, more Maine all to yourself.

Sections of Millinocket Lake cleared of snow and flooded with water from a couple ice fishing size holes to make it smooth and polished.

Ice Fishing, Snowmobiling, Pond Hockey, Snowshoeing And Cross Country Skiing. The Frozen Lakes Get The Winter Traffic.

No Zamboni used to erase the cracks from the outdoor ice surface between spirited pond hockey periods. But I could hear the “he shoots, he scores” from across the lake as my party snow shoed out across it.

The crunch of snow mixed with the sound of a light wind as fresh clean air fills your lungs. While admiring the Maine’s highest mountain and the supporting cast of foot hills around Mt Katahdin. That rise up and populate Baxter State Park’s forever wild legacy created by one smart, unselfish Maine governor.

Any Season, Any Angle, Mount Katahdin Captivates A Person Any Age.

It was Percival Baxter who knew best the perfect gift to leave behind for the many generations to come to enjoy.

Outdoor enthusiasts who would make the yearly pilgrimage to the Baxter State Park area via the quickest route available. And for as many times possible to sneak up into Vacationland to unplug and recharge in Maine.

New England Outdoor Center has other Maine sporting locations too.

Have stayed in The Forks to paddle down the Dead and Kennebec Rivers. Those trips white water rafting are a change of scenery. But those boat rides don’t begin to compare with the thrill of the maneuvering around rocks and water pockets. Hang on for a fast ride excitement no matter how many times you float fast down the Penobscot River. Check out the New England Outdoor Center (NEOC) website for lodging, meal plans, vacation packages.

Hang On, Get Sprayed, Rushing Through Maine’s Penobscot River Rapids.

Here’s a quick video of New England Outdoor Center lodging, the setting in Millinocket Maine run and gun collected to share from last weekend’s visit.

Needing a mini vacation in Maine and way over due?

Are you getting a little stir crazy and developing cabin fever from the weight and length of the pandemic?

Moose And Loon Lodge At The New England Outdoor Center, Millinocket ME. One Option To Run Away To Vacationland For A Maine Mini Vacation.

Need to fill your lungs with fresh clean Maine air?

Your eyes and ears and nose with the sights and sounds and smells of outdoor all natural Maine?

There are plenty of options to rent a cabin or stay in a lodge trail side for whatever your favorite outdoor recreation up here in Maine. Maine sure is the way life should be. Pick an area and see the options in your Internet search.

Space Inside, Outside For Your Mini Vacation In Maine. Moose Lodge, Millinocket Lake At New England Outdoor Center.

Mini vacations in Maine.

The sheer size of Maine makes the statement sound like an oxymoron. Because travel tiime to get to and from Maine can eat up a big chunk of your small window of time that you wished you could spend in Vacationland.

Just Shy Of A Mile High, Mt Katahdin In Winter Fly Over.

It’s like a flight to the moon or a distance planet and so much of the resources of fuel and time are eaten up in the Maine vacation travel mode element.

I see it when say a real estate buyer from Rhode Island is eight hours away. When they are up to their small camp on forty acres up in Maine and it’s Sunday morning. They are well aware if we don’t get on the road to start the trek back to their home state, it’s going to be a hard week ahead. You can hear the clock ticking as soon as you wake up and have to think about breaking camp up in Maine.

Where To Stay On Your Maine Vacation? Google It, Lots Of Choices Like The New England Outdoor Center in Millinocket Or The West Forks In Maine.

The older you get the more difficult it becomes to make long road trips.

Mini vacations in Maine don’t allow enough time and involve a lot of prep work. Gearing up, staying awake, getting all packed up and leaving before the crack of dawn. To race up to Maine arriving very late on a Friday night and trying to jam in as much fun as possible while road weary. Then tearing home, arriving dog tired and exhausted. Trying to rise and shine to get up Monday morning to begin another work week where you lost the weekend to properly prepare for the nine to five. To function on all cylinders in following days back in the dog and pony grind. Trying to get stretched back into their routine. The one all shook up by how long it takes to get up in, around and down hill back out of Maine.

Bring Your Snowsleds, Rent A Snowmobile Up In Maine. Hit The Groomed Trails Either Way!

Living in Maine full time still means travel to access all her goodness.

But when you can shave off four, five or more hours of travel time it means an extra refreshing mini vacation. Out of the car and not pinned behind the wheel plying the trails. Seeing the sights, sampling the local food and traditions. Tickling all the senses. The folks that appreciate Maine most often have something very different to compare it to where crime is high. Just like the cost of living. The price you pay in populated centers where folks are not the friendliest and just too many in number on all four sides.

Winter Fun On The Groomed Wood Trails. Do You Own A Pair Of Snowshoes?

What’s your favorite spot in Maine to return to through out your life?

What do you hope to do in Maine that is on your bucket list to cross off that you dream about doing? I long for the Canadian US border to open up for free traffic to resume. As a Maine border town on the boundary line, the locals miss how easy it is to leave the country for a day. Winter is a season like all the rest, we are outdoors and not stuck inside. Ever taken a mini vacation in Maine over the winter months?

Just Hanging Around At Home? Needing A Mini Vacation In Maine?

Maine, our lower population and big supply of open space awaits to create safe pandemic sensitive vacation options.

Itching to head north to switch into mini vacation in Maine mode? Quick trips up into Maine. The further you go, the more space and lower the Maine vacation costs you enjoy. Not everyone gets to all four corners of Maine to discover the special places that don’t get the ink. The Maine coastal tourist traps get most of the press and winter recreational fun is lost on snowbirds that beeline out of state to warm climate locations. But for those of us who hang around, that are nestled in the cozy corners of Maine small town living have a blast. You have the trails pretty much to yourself.

Even The Puppy Comes Along On The Cross Country Ski Trails. Winter Fun Outdoors On A Maine Mini Vacation.

Mini vacations in Maine, is that part of your New Year’s 2021 resolution in the months ahead?

This past weekend saw lots of folks with the same idea to hole up up in Maine at a sporting retreat. Mini vacations in Maine to cure the suffering of cabin fever. Don’t waste a Maine winter and take advantage of the lodging and meal deals. Exercise outdoors on your mini vacation up in Maine. Lots of options, does not have to cost an arm, leg or duplicate organ. Maine, the way life should be.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

January 21, 2021
Snowmobiling, Snow Sledding In Maine | Get Groomed Marked Trails Maps

Snowmobiling, snow sledding in Maine, where you get lots of varied riding on plenty of well marked groomed trails.

Hearty Lunch, All Fueled Snowmobiles And The Trail Riders.

The trail maps change as new routes to explore open up the winter adventure. Maine is five times bigger than the other New England states. Parked on the Canadian border with the New Brunswick and Quebec provinces so so handy. That location factor does not hurt either for the two nation snow sledding vacation option.

(You have to join a Canadian snowmobiling club. Or get a special Provincial pass to squeeze the throttle. To go over hill and dale on Canadian snow sledding trails eh?)

Snowmobiling in Maine.

The further north, east and well up into Maine, the more friendly and less crowded the snow sled trails. Scenery increases, the cost for your winter wonderland trip on your own snow machine or the one you rent goes way down too. Snowmobiling in Maine is a big industry. This blog post on snow sledding, snowmobiling in Maine serves as a guide to plan your winter trip into Maine wearing mittens or gloves and those felt lined toasty snow puffy boots.

Find Your Way Across Maine ITS Snowmobiling Trails. The New Map.

Maine can boast what not many places can… snow flakes starting as early as October and lasting well into April.

Over 280 snow sledding clubs and right around 14,000 miles of trails for your snowmobile get you places to forget it with a car. There is nothing like being on a bluff scenic turnout to stare and detach from your daily grind. Gawking, silently taking in the snow capped scenery of Mt Katahdin, a frozen lake like Moosehead or East Grand.

You can get your sea legs if new to trail riding by renting a Northern Outdoors snowmobiles in The Forks, Maine.

Birch Point Campground snowmobile sled rentals at Pleasant Lake in Northern Maine provides machines by the hour too Here’s a helpful list of all the snowmobile rentals in Maine options to pick from with super trails to go with them. (more…)

December 1, 2019
Snowsledding In Maine, Explore Vacationland.

Over 3500 miles of Maine snowmobile trails means you can
Maine Snowsled Groomers Create Flat, Fun, Level Trails To Explore Vacationland.
get places you can not by car easily.

To be among the wildlife, to see the natural fourth season beauty of Maine from the seat of a snowsled. Snow covered Mt Katahdin, listening to a roaring brook with ice forming crystals that glitter in the sunlight.

No noise when the machines are shut off and you sit, take in the scenery.

Watch a snowshoe bunny rabbit hop across the trail in front of the sled.

A trail that has been carefully groomed over night and you and your snowsledding party are the first ones to use it.

The ITS main snowsled trails gets lots of traffic. Are a quick way to get from point A to point B in Maine. But the side trails where you weave through the woods, come out in to a field, cross a bridge over a brook are more fun. Snowmobiling, snow skiing in Maine is fun.

In Maine, some of these snowmobile trails crossing unorganized townships can mean you only see a few fellow sledders all day long in your travels. If you are cold snowsledding in Maine, you are not dressed right.

The liquid cooled snowsleds have radiator fins under your feet, the engine gives off some heat too. And thumbwarmers, handle bar electric grips mean heat is not lacking on the Maine snowsled trail ride experience.

Have been a member of the Maine Snowmobile Association for decades to support the outdoor family winter sport.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
207.532.6573
info@mooersrealty.com

November 10, 2010
Maine Snowmobile Snow Show Is October 1,2,3.

Maine Snowsled Groomer Taking Care Of Linneus ME Area Trails

The fun of hitting a just groomed Maine snowmobile trail.

Or one that man has not traveled on yet this winter. Seeing several white tail Maine deer. A jaw dropping view of Mount Katahdin at Baxter State Park. I admit I am a “sled head”. The places you can go by snowsled, snowmobile is limitless.

The Maine snowmobile ITS system works because of private land owners who allow the use of their properties to “link” the trails to explore “Vacationland”. The use of these properties requires respect, staying on the marked trails. Traveling “lightly” and to leave it like you found it without debris left behind or damage to say a tree plantation trail side hurt if you leave the designated trail.

Have a trail across a Maine farm I own and had a real estate buyer seem shocked that I would allow use with an ITS trail. I explained the use is a privledge not a right and I appreciate others allowing my passage on their land. To get to Northern Maine’s St John River Valley. Or over to Shin Pond, up to Oxbow and Masardis. Or down to Grand Lake.

The Maine Snowmobile Show is October 1,2,3 at the Augusta Civic Center.

This is the 14th event with tons of sponsors, exhibitors from lodgding, Maine snowsled clubs and snow machine groomers, snowmobile makers themselves.

Winter in Maine. Not a dirty series of words. We don’t hibernate here in Maine winters around the Christmas holidays, the new year!

I’m Maine REALTOR, Real Estate Broker Andrew Mooers
207.532.6573
info@mooersrealty.com

September 15, 2010
Maine Snowmobiling…Yeah, We’ve Got The Snow, The Sled Trails.

Red Cheeks, Hearty Appetite, Energy Drained Make Happy Maine Kids.

Mainers do not camp out on winter couches, with a bowl of cheese O’s in one hand, the remote television changer in the other hand. They get outside every chance they get.

And in the winter if not playing pond hockey on a clear spot on a nearby lake or ice arena, or down hill skiing on little hills, big hills, they often snowsled. Maybe a little trail ride on Maine’s 13,000 mile network to just put to a sled club or local diner for something to eat. Or taking a 300 mile trip, a loop where you see Maine deer, moose and other wildlife. Not to mention the beauty of Mt Katahdin, a roaring river, a rolling field or windy woods trail along the way.

This winter, see Maine a whole new way. Going place you can not get by car or jeep. In the heart of Maine. From Kittery to Fort Kent Maine, see it on a snowsled. More than 280 Maine snowsled clubs groom, maintain the unique state trail system, each doing there part. Called everything from a snow machine, snowsled, snowmobile to skidoo, they are words to describe, spell out and promise Maine winter fun. Come explore, discover some of the best sled trails in Northern American in Maine.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers

January 17, 2010
Snowmobiling Pumps Alot Of Revenue Into Maine!

The Linneus Maine snowmobile club is needing to update their groomer and all local businesses in Maine need to lend their support when this grand writing effort requires a helping hand. This is an open letter of what we think of the grant money being awarded. Here’s the letter….

Thank you for bringing to my attention the desire of the Linneus Sno-Sports, Inc. to apply for a USDA grant to aid in the purchase of a new trail grooming machine and the associated equipment needed to make safe, flat and enjoyable trails for all to enjoy.

I have been told the average snowsledder spends at least $100 per day in the area they are snowsledding through. I think this number is probably conservative because by the time you fuel up with today’s prices, stay somewhere at a lodge or a motel, eat and entertain yourself, I would put the figure closer to $150 on average.

In addition to those new dollars that turn over six times in the local economy, we are exposing Maine to snowsledders who might decide to locate a business, a factory or a distribution facility here. I have heard over and over in my job, from folks who have snowsledded through, how friendly the people are, how nice it is not to have a million people, and the ones that are here are friendly and helpful. That’s the kind of location a future business owner is going to want to locate. Add in the work ethic from everybody picking potatoes and making money on the local farms growing up, this is an area ripe for economic development. Snowsledding is economic development, from the exposure it gives to folks vacationing through and for those who come back numerous times a year, year after year.

I think the use of a USDA grant to purchase a snow grooming machine to make the trails not only safe, but to attract more snowsledders to the area is a great use of taxpayer dollars. In this day in age where we hear about abuses and waste of government spending, this definitely is one that hits home. The volunteers at the Linneus-Sno Sports and other sled clubs around the state, work long hours for no pay … only for personal satisfaction. Whether they are twitching new trails, taking out dangerous sharp curves or building new bridges, there is nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer snowsledder.

I have seen the trails first hand, have four snowsleds, and we use them a lot in our job to show property and to access land. You can get places on a snowsled that you cannot get to by car and the view and wildlife is what people are after. This new groomer will make those trails accessible, safer and help bring in dollars during a slow time in the economy … the dead of winter. Local restaurants, local motels, gas stations, new and used snowsled sales and parts sales will all benefit from this tourism! We’ve got the trails, we just have to make them safer and flat so folks will come back and tell all of their friends what a great time they had in the greater Houlton area.

Respectfully submitted,
Andrew F. Mooers
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P.S. This will specifically help my business and keep our revenues generated from folks looking for recreational land. We meet them because of their passion for snowsledding, but they decide to come back for the other three seasons and spend money. If they buy property, they build on the land. They drill wells. They put septics and power in. Those are all dollars that turn over six times that we did not have in the local economy before.

March 23, 2009