The vast majority of Maine Alpine areas offer night skiing – and nearly half offer deals that top the day ticket pass.
Deirdre Fleming
Deirdre Fleming covers the outdoors for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, and has been a newspaper reporter in Maine for 25 years - and an outdoor writer for the past 20. During that time, she’s seen biologists trap 500-pound bear, watched fishermen land high-jumping makos, camped on Moosehead Lake in the winter, and retraced Gov. Percival Baxter’s first trip to Mt. Katahdin. She is often asked, but still does not know her favorite wildland in Maine. A graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Missouri, she lives with her husband in Buxton near the Saco River, where they both fly fish.
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High Peaks Alliance gets $2 million to rebuild bridge over Sandy River in Farmington
The federal funding will be used to construct a 336-foot span that will link Farmington and Jay via the 14-mile Whistle Stop Trail.
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Claim of Maine’s biggest ice fishing derby shifts to Aroostook County
For years, the Sebago Lake Ice Fishing Derby was the state’s biggest, but that mantle has been passed to the Long Lake Derby.
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Extreme winter sport to debut in Maine at Lost Valley ski area
Ice cross – a sport in which skaters compete head-to-head down a steep track while navigating twists, banked turns and jumps – comes to Auburn in February.
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Maine state park campgrounds set attendance record in 2022
It marks the third consecutive year of record-breaking attendance by campers at state parks.
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For some Mainers, taking up fitness routines has been ‘transformative’
The challenges and uncertainty of the pandemic has motivated some people to improve their mental and physical health.
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Important strides made in land conservation across Maine in 2022
From the coast and the mountains to Aroostook County, unusual conservation projects defined the past year.
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Trust For Public Land purchases 31,000 acres next to national monument
The nonprofit hopes the land might serve as a southern entrance to Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument.
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Indoor track: Maine athletes look across the border for better performances
The trend accelerated during the pandemic, but coaches expect that top high school athletes will continue to compete in Boston, New York and beyond.
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Indoor track: Athletes to watch in southern Maine
These are 10 girls and 10 boys to keep an eye on as they build up to the conference and state championships.