Paddling Down Maine’s Allagash River
Thoreau paddled it, so why shouldn’t you?
We enjoyed THIS recent story about paddling down Maine’s Allagash River, a river made famous by Henry David Thoreau’s The Maine Woods.
The river, which since 1970 has been protected as the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, blends placid lakes and ponds with flowing water and streaming rapids.
In Albert Booth’s story, published in Maine’s Recorder Community Newspapers, he and his party paddled a 54-mile stretch of the lower (northern) end of the river, returning to the Allagash after padding the upper stretch the year before.
