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February Vacation Camp celebrates its 5th year, Patten Winterfest, General Management Plan update, and more… This newsletter is coming to you in the third week of March, a time of year defined by the tension of transitions. Patches of snow dot the landscape still. The driveway is softening each afternoon, half of it following us into the house…

Welcoming new staff and board, the winter trail report, learning winter safety, and a fresh look for the eNewsletter! Winter at Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument is a study in contrasts: its still, stark beauty invites well-bundled adventurers to experience a stunning landscape, but extreme cold, deep snowpack, and the remote backcountry pose risks. Recreating safely requires specific…

Through a challenging year, one thing was constant – your love for this place. At the end of each year, nonprofit staff are overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from our members, donors, supporting partners, and community folks who take some time from their OWN busy holiday preparations to sit down and write a check,…

Federal shutdown impacts, Stars Over Katahdin wrap-up, fall education program highlights, gate closures, and more… It is a difficult moment for our national parks, the dedicated workforce of the National Park Service who are nearly all currently furloughed, and for our gateway communities. Please know that Friends of Katahdin Woods and Waters, like philanthropic park partners…

A wonderful Woods & Waters Day, record visitation, Stars Over Katahdin this month, fall community events, and more…   Are you feeling it? The air’s shift from stiflingly hot to fresh and breezy, a wink of bright orange amid the green canvas of a hillside, or the ease of sitting outside at dusk – without the shrill approach of…

Woods & Waters Day registration, Tekαkαpimək opening day, trail work, summer adventures, and more… It’s finally here – Saturday, June 21st, Tekαkαpimək Contact Station officially opened to the public for the first time under the care of National Park Service rangers at Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument! Your generosity brought this special building and space…

Road gates are open, advocacy updates, Leave No Trace Trainer course, a month of celebrating members, and much more… Have you heard? The gates are open! Visitors to Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument may now enjoy access to Loop Road from the Swift Brook Road in Sherman and at the northern end, along the Old River Road…

Mud season ahead, state of the park webinar, Membership May announced, youth leadership in action, and more… Good-bye winter! Your soft sun-warmed snow is melting fast, sinking into and streaming across the saturated ground into tributaries, brooks, and rivers where the churned-up resembles frothy hot cocoa (to some of us, anyway!). Spring is coming on fast…