Maine Hiking is a 95-page compact guide covering Maine’s best hiking spots – including North Woods, Borestone Mountain, and Russell Pond – perfect for hikers looking for scenic, back-country trails.

Hiker and travel columnist Jacqueline Tourville offers her firsthand advice on what sights are must-sees, and sightseeing highlight maps make planning your time easy. Hiking descriptions include distance, estimated hiking time, and ratings for difficulty, as well as easy-to-follow maps and clear driving directions that lead to a hiker’s sanctuary.
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Maine Biking is a 60-page compact guide covering Maine’s best biking trails, including the Kennebec River Trail, Capitol Hills Route, and Pineland Farm Trails.

Experienced biker Chris Bernard provides readers with easy-to-follow maps, bike safety tips, an essential gear list, and information on bike repair and maintenance. Whether you’re in search of a family-friendly trail or an overnight trek for experienced riders, you'll find the best biking routes with Bernard as your guide.
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Back in print by popular demand, this updated, full-color edition of follows famed naturalist Henry David Thoreau's sojourns in Maine and offers modern commentary on how the route has changed. Drawing on Thoreau's faithfully recorded itineraries in his classic book The Maine Woods, author J. Parker Huber provides a comprehensive map and summaries of Thoreau's travels.

From Moosehead Lake to Katahdin, returning to Bangor down the Penobscot River, today's traveler can use the book's revised maps to retrace these routes for an hour, a day, or several weeks. Huber artfully organizes these excursions into a grand tour of Maine's most impressive scenery. Beautiful color photography by Bridget Besaw shows the remote areas readers can still explore. Pictures of local flora and fauna help readers identify local species which continue to thrive.

Thoreau was an early advocate for conservation, and his observations of people and places infuse The Wildest Country with his appreciation of his surroundings-his delight in the elusive laughing loons; his sampling of indigenous tea substitutes; and his pact with Penobscot guide Joe Polis to exchange every bit of knowledge each possessed within 11 days.

The Wildest Country is an exciting and memorable journey into Thoreau's – and our – Maine. It's an essential book for naturalists, travelers, and armchair adventurers who want a glimpse of the past – as well as a look at what we can still preserve for future generations of explorers.

Also, take a look at the Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail Map and Guide, a 17" by 28" wall map that shows all three of Thoreau's expeditions.
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Whether a novice canoeist or experienced whitewater kayaker, no paddler should be without an AMC River Guide. In this completely updated and revised edition of AMC's classic guide for Maine, paddlers of all ability levels will find the comprehensive, straightforward information they need to experience serene rivers, challenging whitewater -- and everything in between. Detailed river descriptions and an easy-to-use format make river selection and trip planning for nearly 4,000 miles of Maine rivers -- including the Northern Forest Canoe Trail -- effortless.

Inside you'll find:

149 rivers and their tributaries;
level of difficulty;
recommended water level;
maps, directions, portages; and total trip distance.

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