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Western Maine Lakes and Sunday River

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Recorded distance
278 km
Riding-time estimate
4 h 22
Journey
Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis

The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.

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Why this ride

A Boston-accessible route from lake country into the western mountains. The road: US-302, ME-35 and ME-26. Distance and riding time are estimates from the checkpoints until the road is measured on this page.

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

  1. 1. Bridgton

  2. 2. Fryeburg

  3. 3. Bethel

    Bethel is a quiet village on the Androscoggin River, in the western mountains of Maine, close to the New Hampshire border. White clapboard houses and a green stand beside the church, and the Mahoosuc Range, rugged and wooded, rises just to the north. The town has about 2,500 people and an old academy, Gould, founded in 1836, whose brick buildings give the place a New England college look. In winter, the Sunday River ski resort a few kilometres north turns the area busy, but in summer and autumn Bethel is peaceful.

    Read the complete Bethel write-up.

  4. 4. Grafton Notch

    The notch is the pass where Route 26 cuts through the Mahoosuc Range, between Newry in the south and Upton in the north, and it is one of the finest short stretches of road in the state. The mountains rise steeply on both sides, with Old Speck, at about 4,170 feet the third highest peak in Maine, on the east and Baldpate on the west.

    Read the complete Grafton Notch write-up.

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