baxter state park

Published
August 30, 2023

Six Maine hikers rescued after spending night on Mount Katahdin’s Knife Edge trail

The 21-hour rescue operation included a helicopter evacuation of a 20-year-old woman who became unconscious on the rocky and exposed ridge in Baxter State Park.
Published
August 22, 2023

Research at Baxter seeks to identify plants that will adapt to global warming

Scientists say sediment taken from below Chimney Pond, and other Alpine lakes in the Northeast, will yield a fossil record of the plants – those that have died out and those that have survived – since the last ice age.
Published
April 18, 2023

Maine Warden Service veteran appointed new director of Baxter State Park

He replaces Eben Sypitkowski, who left as the park director in early 2022 to become director of land management for The Nature Conservancy in Maine.
Published
April 10, 2023

Seniors Not Acting Their Age: A Baxter State Park winter expedition, Part II — challenging climbs
Published
February 23, 2023

Baxter’s terms complicate tribes’ wish for role in Katahdin oversight

The tribes of Maine want a formal role in managing this sacred site, but strict rules on how the donated land must be governed don't allow for the expansion of the authority board.