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Appalachian Trail. The Appalachian Trail, also called the A.T., is a hiking trail in the Eastern United States, extending almost 2,200 miles (3,540 km) between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine, and passing through 14 states. [ 2] The Appalachian Trail Conservancy claims the Appalachian Trail to be the world's longest ...
U.S. Route 1. U.S. Route 1 or U.S. Highway 1 ( US 1) is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States. It runs 2,370 miles (3,810 km) from Key West, Florida, north to Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border, making it the longest north–south road in the United States. [ 2]
A section of the Intracoastal Waterway in Pamlico County, North Carolina, crossed by the Hobucken Bridge. The Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) is a 3,000-mile (4,800 km) inland waterway along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States, running from Massachusetts southward along the Atlantic Seaboard and around the southern tip of Florida, then following the Gulf Coast to ...
75 cu ft/s (2.1 m 3 /s) • maximum. 49,500 cu ft/s (1,400 m 3 /s) Watershed data. [1] The Aroostook River is a 112-mile-long (180 km) [2] tributary of the Saint John River in the U.S. state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Its basin is the largest sub-drainage of the Saint John River. [3]
Donn Charles Fendler (August 29, 1926 – October 10, 2016) was an American author and public speaker [1] from Rye, New York. In July 1939 at the age of 12, he got separated from his family and became lost on Maine 's Mount Katahdin. His disappearance launched a manhunt which became front page news throughout the nation and involved hundreds of ...
Interstate 95 ( I-95) is the main north–south Interstate Highway on the East Coast of the United States, [3] running from U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Miami, Florida, north to the Houlton–Woodstock Border Crossing between Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The highway largely parallels the Atlantic coast and US 1, except for the ...
The Miss Maine competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Maine in the Miss America pageant. Maine has been represented in the pageant since 1937, although the state has never produced a winner. With Alaska became the latest state crowned the Miss America title, Maine is one of the few states along with South ...
Fort Knox (Maine) / 44.566194°N 68.802417°W / 44.566194; -68.802417. Fort Knox, now Fort Knox State Park or Fort Knox State Historic Site, [1] is located on the western bank of the Penobscot River in the town of Prospect, Maine, about 5 miles (8.0 km) from the mouth of the river. Built between 1844 and 1869, it was the first fort in ...