Leave No Trace Principle #5: Minimize Campfire Impacts - Only make fires and use stoves in designated camping and picnic areas. - Protect bird habitat, animals’ homes, and trees by not peeling birch bark or breaking branches off live or dead standing trees. - Burn all wood and coals to ash, put out campfires completely and pack out nonburnables such as tinfoil, cigarette butts and food scraps. NESOWADNEHUNK FIELD and NESOWADNEHUNK GROUP AREA (established in 1952) (Elevation 1,300’) Nesowadnehunk Field provided garden vegetables and pasture for animals during the era when adjacent lands were logged. Due to lower visitation, this area serves as an “overflow only” site after Labor Day. The quieter nature of this campground makes this a choice for visitors who do not relish the busy Katahdin trailhead campgrounds. Highlights include: • 10 tent sites, 11 lean-tos, several walk-in sites, a 2-person cabin and a newly constructed 8-person bunkhouse! • Three separate group camping areas accommodating a total of 50 people • Northern trailhead for Doubletop Mountain • Trailhead for the Center Mtn LT and route into Russell Pond via Wassataquoik Lake • Ledge Falls and the Marston trailhead a short distance from here via the Park Tote Road. • Fly-fishing on Nesowadnehunk Stream and nearby Nesowadnehunk Lake. SOUTH BRANCH POND CAMPGROUND (established 1951) (Elevation 981’) South Branch Pond Campground is especially popular with families because of the ample facilities, spectacular views of surrounding mountains and ponds and a wide variety of recreational options. Highlights include: • 21 tent sites, 12 lean-tos, 8-person bunkhouse • Two walk-in/canoe sites on Lower South Branch Pond, one walk-in/canoe site on Upper South Branch Pond. • Short trails to the Ledges or South Branch Falls • Longer trails to Howe Brook Falls, North Traveler, Black Cat, South Branch Mountain • The Traveler Loop Trail route (equivalent in time and elevation gain to a Katahdin hike) • A public picnic area and rental canoes/kayaks • Nearby trailhead for the Forest Ecology and Management Trail. Wildnotes NORTH BRANCH CAMPS GROUP AREA (Established 2017) (Elevation 1,000’) New Group Site Available in 2017! The North Branch Camps Group Area is located approximately 13 miles west of Matagamon Gate. This site provides an attractive opportunity for scout, school and other organized groups who are self-contained and willing to travel to reach major trailheads in exchange for a private setting. Highlights include: • Two cabins: one set up as a sleeping facility with gas lights, a wood stove and bunks for eight, and a second cabin set up as a gathering and eating facility with gas lights, a wood stove, a picnic table and a countertop and cupboard space. • Vault toilet • Outdoor fire ring • Ample tenting space. • Overall site capacity of 30 people. • 1 mile east of the Burnt Mountain Picnic Area and trailhead and the Dwelley Pond Trail is 2 miles to the west. TROUT BROOK CAMPGROUND AND GROUP CAMPING AREA (established 1970) (Elevation 680’) Trout Brook Farm provided lodging, pasture and crop space to support logging operations in this area, which began in 1837 during the white pine era. Almost exclusively a tenting campground, Trout Brook Farm features: Three walk-in sites along Trout Brook 12 tent sites A Group Camping area, capacity: 50 people Access to Trout Brook, Littlefield Deadwater and Matagamon Lake, including several canoe camping sites The trailhead for Trout Brook Mountain and the Five Ponds Trail Nearby trailheads for Horse Mountain, Billfish Pond and the Fowler Ponds region Rental canoes RUSSELL POND CAMPGROUND (established in 1950) (Elevation 1,333’) Russell Pond is located on the site of the former W.F. Tracy sporting camps. Today Russell Pond is a popular destination for backpackers and anglers interested in native brook trout. Russell Pond can be reached by hiking from Roaring Brook, South Branch Pond or Nesowadnehunk field. Hiking distance to the campground varies from 7.5-14.3 miles. Some highlights: • 3 tent sites, 5 lean-tos, 8-person bunkhouse • Trails to Wassataquoik Lake, Greene Falls, Deep Pond, Six Ponds, Turner Deadwater, and Grand Falls • Nearby trail less summits • Rental canoes at outlying ponds • Access to remote, single party sites such as Davis Pond, Pogy Pond, Wassataquoik Island, Little Wassataquoik and Wassataquoik Stream CHIMNEY POND (established in 1938) (Elevation 2,914’) Chimney Pond is the oldest campground in the Park, an iconic destination within an iconic Park. The original Chimney Pond cabin was built in 1923 by the Department of Inland Fisheries and Game but the area was not established as a campground until many years later. Due to the elevation and slow growth of trees here, open fires are not allowed and campers are asked to cook with backpacker stoves. Some highlights: • 9 lean-tos • 10-person bunkhouse • Short trails to Blueberry Knoll and Pamola Caves • Cathedral or Saddle Trails up Katahdin, with options for Knife Edge and Hamlin Ridge. • Please note: The Dudley Trail will be closed until 2018 to allow for the relocation of the lower section of the trail. This work is in response to a rock and debris slide that obliterated a critical section of the trail above the Pamola Caves. Stay tuned for updates! • Access to Davis Pond lean-to 15
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