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On a Clear Day You Can See California
Cafe de la Place in Madawaska
French Acadian Country
Top of Grand Falls in Canada
View from Presque Isle
Town of Mars Hill
DAY TRIPS FROM MAGIC POND:
Sight-seeing and shopping in New Brunswick, Canada (Woodstock, Fredericton, Edmundston) • St. John's Valley • Portage Scenic Highway to Fort Kent • Grand Falls (assuming they haven't turned it off) • Transatlantic Balloon Launch Sites • Caribou Historical Center & Museum • Appalachian Trail • Fort Fairfield Railroad Museum • Acadian Archives • Fort Kent Historical Society Museum & Gardens • Baxter State Park (2-day trip) • End of U.S. Route 1 Road Marker • Frenchville Historical Society Museum • Aroostook Historical and Art Museum • Black Hawk Putnum House • Island Falls Historical Society and Jailhouse Museum • Webb Museum of Vintage Fashion • Limestone-Casell Historical Society featuring the potato industry • Hike to Mars Hill Mountaintop • Watson Settlement Covered Bridge • New Sweeden • Oakfield Railroad Museum • Lumberman's Museum • Portage Lake Public Beach • Aroostook State Park boating and swimming • University of Maine at Presque Isle • Acadian Village • Knott II Bragg Farm • Benjamin Wilder Farmstead Aroostook Agricultural Museum • [and you thought it might get boring??!!]
Sight-seeing and shopping in New Brunswick, Canada (Woodstock, Fredericton, Edmundston) • St. John's Valley • Portage Scenic Highway to Fort Kent • Grand Falls (assuming they haven't turned it off) • Transatlantic Balloon Launch Sites • Caribou Historical Center & Museum • Appalachian Trail • Fort Fairfield Railroad Museum • Acadian Archives • Fort Kent Historical Society Museum & Gardens • Baxter State Park (2-day trip) • End of U.S. Route 1 Road Marker • Frenchville Historical Society Museum • Aroostook Historical and Art Museum • Black Hawk Putnum House • Island Falls Historical Society and Jailhouse Museum • Webb Museum of Vintage Fashion • Limestone-Casell Historical Society featuring the potato industry • Hike to Mars Hill Mountaintop • Watson Settlement Covered Bridge • New Sweeden • Oakfield Railroad Museum • Lumberman's Museum • Portage Lake Public Beach • Aroostook State Park boating and swimming • University of Maine at Presque Isle • Acadian Village • Knott II Bragg Farm • Benjamin Wilder Farmstead Aroostook Agricultural Museum • [and you thought it might get boring??!!]
The regional cuisine is deliciously rural with a choice of french fries: handcut or McCann's (a major local employer). Pick your own berry farms, pies to die for, fresh local produce, fiddleheads and blueberries, homemade baked beans every Saturday at the IGA and did I mention baked potatoes? The preferred restaurants are family-run no-frills places, including a charming spot called '"Grama's" (a five-minute hop across the border from Magic Pond into New Brunswick, Canada). Night life is a moose walking up the driveway in the dark. The sunset that precedes the nightlife is spectacular.
When Maine coined the slogan "The Way Life Should Be," someone from Aroostook County was clearly on the committee. We are like a foreign nation up here in The County (what the rest of Maine calls our huge chunk of moose-blessed real estate)-- closer to Canada than any significant population of fellow-Americans. And we (proudly) are not of the times. We grow potatoes and look for the longest checkout line at the store so we'll have more time to chat. We grow potatoes and watch the Parade of Lights come down Main Street in Presque Isle on a -10° night. We grow potatoes and probably have more churches per capita than any other place else on earth because the spirit of Maine individuality dictates that theological schisms be resolved by one party splintering off and starting a new religion. We're friendly, tolerant, helpful, grateful to be alive and appreciative of our beautiful surroundings. We're also honest and trusting, the way people should be. AND, it is only here, extending through Blaine, Maine that you will find:
The first thing you're going to notice when you get here is that you can breathe. The second thing, will be the water: cold, pure, crystal clear and full-bodied spring water from the sanctuary well. Kiss the bottles (and price tags) good-bye and enjoy some of the finest spring water on earth right from the tap.