Hi fellow Travelers,
The other day we got to spend some time in a really awesome place we never expected to see: Mount Augamenticus in Cape Neddick, Maine.
Mount Augamenticus
One of the really fun things that we do a lot of the time is get lost and end up finding something really fun and special to take a look at! This time was certainly no different! We had tried to go to the beach in Maine but it was jam packed and we couldn鈥檛 find any parking this time of year in any of the four beaches we visited. We were just aimlessly driving around heading to the other beach we were going to try when I saw a sign for a mountain. I figured why the hell not? We don鈥檛 have anything else to do right now! The wife and little man agreed and we were off to find the mountain!
The area around Mount Agamenticus is really well done. It's a lot of wilderness still and there is a pretty significant area to explore but what's helpful is that the trail is maintained and easily accessible to people of all ages and skill levels. You can even drive a wheel chair on them! That's hard to find with a nature trail so it was pretty damn cool to see.
There are a significant amount of different animals around us! I know this is the case with nearly every corner of the globe but sometimes you don't realize or appreciate it until you are shown a diagram of the different things you could encounter when you are out and about.
It was good that they specified the species of animals that were hard to find and endangered so that if we came across them we could keep our distance so we don't disturb or hurt them.
The place is definitely an important one for many groups of people. Schools come here on field trips, families come to explore it, seniors can come and sit and enjoy it. There's a little bit for everyone and all of the pictures they display certainly are testament to that!
I didn't get to stand and read some of the history when we were there because it was pretty hot. The wife and son aren't as cut out for the hot weather as I am lol. It was interesting to see it though, even briefly. Zooming into it now, I can see the importance of it for historical measures. It might have been the first named point that explorers saw from the ocean back in 1497 which is awesome.
What I also really think is great is the keeping of the Native American language and names for things in the area. The Chippewa Native Americans word that meant "where land and water meet" or a shoreline, was a close word to what we now know is Agamenticus the mountain. Respect for the Natives and their ways of life!
There were lots of really cool signs all over the place too, showing different things that went on around. It's been a long time since I've seen one of these depictions of the different cloud formations so that was great to see! I'm going to save this picture on my phone for educational reference with the little man lol.
I also loved that they gave a lot of information and education opportunities for the local flora! One of the most important things to me is trying to become more knowledgeable in the local plants and what their names are. It's great to see them displaying it all over the place and I know this Staghorn Sumac here is something I see all over the place!
The sign was right in front of an example of a living Staghorn Sumac for us to just know and understand. I recognize it by the fuzzy hair on the branches and the leaves.
Another great example of the information that's all over the place. The Quaking Aspen trees are quite popular around, I see quite a few of them in most of the places we go so it's good to see and be able to have some identification!
Right behind the sign was the tree. This one was pretty darn big! We appreciated the shade that it provided on that day for sure, it was hot! Lol.
There was this really awesome depiction of what you are looking at if you are looking across the scenery from the top of the mountain. I was really enjoying getting to know what I was looking at! I think this is an awesome idea to do for any mountaintop area so that people can orient themselves to what they are looking at.
In the very middle of the mountaintop there was this area that had these really cool metal impressions of the local areas in Maine and New Hampshire. This one was Goose Rocks Beach, about 18 miles (or 1.8?) from where we were. I don't think we've visited this beach before so we might check it out!
The Nubble Lighthouse is really one of our favorite places to visit in Maine! It's a beautiful lighthouse we've posted about a few times before but it's completely separated from the mainland on it's own island. They did a great job of making the metal impression here. It was cool to see that we were 6.5 miles from it!
My favorite one was the Mount Washington one, for Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
I don't know if it was specifically positioned so that the impression was pointing in the direction of the mountain or what but I think just to the left of the tree behind the telephone pole there could be Mount Washington. It's 78.5 miles from where we are standing! That's crazy to think that from up there, you can sort of see something 79 miles away. That's about 400k feet away!
Being at the top of the area, it makes sense to have a pretty good radio tower!
There was this really good nature trail surrounding the area. You can see a map of it on the right but it had a few different paths that let you walk around the summit so we enjoyed it and went exploring a little bit!
The views were really awesome all around!
This is the trail that wrapped around. It was a nice fine gravel trail to it and it's lined by the trees that we just learned the names of, the Staghorn Sumac trees! Gotta keep that in the brain so I don't forget lol
The little man had a lot of fun walking around the different trails and paths that were offered. He was confused as to why it was named Blueberry Bluff and I showed him that growing around us on the ground, without fruit right now, were a bunch of blueberry shrubs and bushes! I was telling him that blueberry bushes are popular on mountains for some reason, I've been to a few of them and have seen little blueberry bushes growing so that was a cool thing to share that I don't know if I would've thought of otherwise.
One of our favorite places is definitely Maine. There is so much to offer and lots of beauty all around! I'm very fortunate to be able to live really close to such a wonderful place.
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