Park Entrance & Camping Fees
Day Use Parking Reservation Fee: $5
2
(for accessing Katahdin trail heads)
Park Headquarters and Park Gate Hours
Call 207-723-5140
Park HQ:
Columbus Day through Memorial Day: M-F, 8 AM - 4 PM
Memorial Day weekend, through Columbus Day: 7 days/week, 8 AM - 4 PM
Togue Pond Gate (South end of Park) and Matagamon Gate (Northern Gate)
May 15 - Columbus Weekend: 6 AM- 10 PM
After Columbus Day weekend - End of October: 6 AM-7 PM, contingent upon
weather. No gate staff after November 2.
Out of State Vehicle Entrance Fee: $15 /day or $40/season pass
Maine registered vehicles enter free of charge
Camping fees are per site with maximum capacities applying in each
case.
Campground Tent sites: $32/night
(max capacity 6 people unless otherwise noted to be 4)
Campground Lean-tos: $32/night
(max. capacity 4 unless otherwise noted)
Backcountry Individual outlying campsites:
$21/site (Pogy, Fowler Ponds, etc.)
Bunkhouse: $12 per person/night
Group Camping Areas: $8/person/night,
minimum $48/night
Cabins (Daicey Pond, Kidney Pond)
2 person: $57 4 person: $105
3 person: $78 6 person: $135
Baxter State Park is a
Carry in/Carry out Park
If it came into the park with you it
must leave the park with you. There
are no dumpsters/trashcans in the
park. Please be prepared and make
arrangements to take all trash with
you. Rangers can provide you with
trash bags.
Please do not burn trash. And please, please do not deposit trash
in the outhouses.
Baxter State Park Essentials
EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS
(cell phone reception in the Park is marginal at best.)
Park Headquarters (207) 723-5140
For emergencies please call 911 to have the nearest law
enforcement officer dispatched.
Millinocket Police Department: (207) 723-9731
Millinocket Fire Department: (207) 723-7026
or 723-5125
Millinocket Regional Hospital: (207) 723-5161
OTHER USEFUL NUMBERS
Katahdin Area Chamber of Commerce: (207) 723-4443
(for dog boarding, restaurants, lodging, taxi/shuttle services)
Millinocket Memorial Library: (207) 723-7020