Angel Falls is one of the highest waterfalls in Maine. The hike to the falls is just over a mile, with a few crossings of Mountain Brook. Finding the trail head might be the hardest part. On my first trip there years ago, the parking area was marked with an old t-shirt and you had to walk down a short dirt road to find the trail. Maine staying wild or what?
Here are directions to the trail head and a trail description. Definitely worth the trip!
The Cataracts trail accesses numerous pools and drops along Frye Brook in Maine’s Mahoosuc Mountains region.
So nice to see water in the stream flowing into Round Pond in the Kennebec Highlands. In September I hiked to this place with my friend only to find that the water was down to a trickle.
Spray and rainbow in Screw Augur Falls in Grafton Notch State Park.
Detail of water droplets and moss in Katahdin Stream Falls, Baxter State Park.
Katahdin Stream Falls in Baxter State Park is only about a mile hike from the trailhead of the Hunt trail.
Ice takes many shapes in a stream in the Kennebec Highlands.
These last leaves of the season hang on to a rock in a stream in the Kennebec Highlands.
Two weeks ago this stream in the Kennebec Highlands was dry as the result of drought conditions through summer and early fall. Finally we’ve had some good rainfalls and the stream is flowing again.
Getting to Green Falls in the remote center of Baxter State Park requires about a 26-mile round trip hike — either from the west (via Wassataquoik Lake Trail from the Nesowadehunk campground) or the east (via the Russel Pond Trail from Roaring Brook, then the Wassataquoik Lake Trail). Worth the walk? I did it both ways, so I think so! (Wassataquoik Lake itself is worth the walk.)
light on the trail 