Appalachian Trail Guide to Maine

By Dean Gilley, Dean Cilley, Susan Cilley

Includes general information, This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0917953614
• ISBN13: 9780917953613
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Appalachian Trail Conference
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.0" x 4.5"

Customer Reviews

A great guidebook

As the other books in this series, this book consists of a set of water-resistant maps (7 in this case), lists of mileage points, brief trail descriptions, and general information about nearby towns, transportation, etc. Each of the maps also includes an elevation chart at the bottom (which tend to be rather rough approximations). As the title suggests, the guidebook focuses on the AT, though a few side trails are described as well. In contrast to the other 3 AT guidebooks I own, the maps come on separate sheets, with the back of each used for trail description; the book itself contains only general information. In my view, this is a very convenient feature as you can just carry the maps you need and leave the book at home. I used maps 1-3 to hike the 100 mile Wilderness (just south of Baxter State Park) and found the maps and the trail descriptions to be generally very accurate. However, some information that might have been useful is omitted. For example, there are a couple of developed campsites (maintained by the state) at the south end of Nahmakanta Lake; they are not official AT campsites and there is no mention of them in the guidebook. More information about tenting opportunities at the shelter site would have been nice as well (a lot of shelters in the wilderness have rather poor tentsites). Overall, this guidebook is all you need to follow the trail though, and there is no other choice I am aware of anyway :)