Recommended Canoe Trips from
Maine Wilderness Camps.
1. Pleasant Lake to Third Machias - Through Scraggly Lake, Junior Lake, Junior Bay of West Grand, Pocumcus Lake, Wabassus Lake, Third Machias Lake and return (one week).
2. Machias River - Same as trip #1, continuing through Second Machias Lake, First Machias Lake and the Machias River across Route #9 and into Whitneyville or Machias (one week to Route #9, ten days to Machias).
3. Fourth Machias Lake to Pleasant Lake - Through Fourth Machias Stream to Third Machias Lake, then up through the Getchel Lakes, Wabassus Lake, Pocumcus Lake, Junior Bay of West Grand Lake, Junior Lake Stream, Junior Lake, and Scraggly Lake to portage into Pleasant Lake (four or five days).
4. Pleasant Lake to Princeton - Through Scraggly Lake, Junior Lake, Junior Bay, West Grand Lake to Grand Lake Stream, portage to Big Lake, through Big Lake to Long Lake and Lewey's Lake in Princeton (six to seven days).
5. Pleasant Lake to Sysladobsis Lake - Through Scraggly Lake, Junior Lake, Junior Bay of West Grand Lake, Pocumcus Lake, portage over Denison Darn, Sysladobsis Lake (perhaps with a side trip to Upper Sysladobsis Lake), portage to Bottle Lake, Bottle Lake Stream, back into Junior Lake, Scraggly Lake and back to Pleasant Lake (one week).
6. Baskahegan Lake - Near Maine Wilderness Camps, put in on Baskahegan Stream, cross Baskahegan Lake to Brookton (two to three days).
7. Border Lakes - (East Grand Lake and Spednic Lake) - Put in at Orient, through East Grand Lake , Forest City and through Spednic Lake, to Vanceboro (three to five days).
8. St. Croix River - Put in at Vanceboro, follow border river to Grand Falls Flowage, then to Princeton -- or continue down river to Woodland or Calais (two to three days).
9. Mattawamkea2 River - Put in at Brookton on Baskahegan Lake, cross Baskahegan Lake to outlet,
follow Baskahegan Stream to Crooked Brook Flowage, then follow Baskahegan Stream through Danforth
to Mattawamkeag River and Mattawamkeag River to Bancroft, Wytopitlock or Kingman (three to five
days). Note: The Mattawamkeag River may be followed further only by experienced whitewater canoeist
to Mattawamkeag--and then the Penobscot may be followed into Penobscot Bay.

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