No sooner had we launched our four canoes in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in northernmost Maine than a strong wind arose, barreling down the river from the north, smack in our faces. We had hoped ...

The key to any good trip is planning. Planning is even more important when that trip is to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, where there are no stores, service stations or cellphone coverage. A canoe ...

If it weren’t for Cantillon, America’s beer scene might look entirely different today. The Belgian brewery, founded in 1900 and currently under fourth generation family ownership, is one of a handful ...

Take a page out of Henry David Thoreau’s book, and paddle on northern Maine’s remote Allagash River. “Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature,” he wrote in The ...

A group of paddlers on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. Credit: Steve Day The state has backed off on plans to build three administrative offices and as many storage barns in the restricted zone of ...

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In July, Boy Scouts and leaders from Troop 288 of Annandale, departed on a ten day, 84-mile wilderness canoe trip down the Allagash River in Northern Maine. The crew included Scouts Jacob Willsey, ...

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The Allagash Wilderness Waterway, stretching from west of Baxter State Park at its southern end to the Canadian border at its northern tip, covers 94 miles. It's a big piece of land, defined by the ...