2+ week, 1+ day ago   (296+ words) You’re not going to just happen upon Castine. This pretty little seafaring town is located at the very tip of a peninsula reaching into Penobscot Bay in Downeast Maine. Most people don’t make the effort, setting their sights and GPS…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1552+ words) and Jim Benson prepare their kayaks at Hollywood Beach in Port Angeles on Aug. 12 before demonstrating...demonstrate an assisted kayak rescue at Hollywood Beach in Port Angeles on Aug. 12 using one kayak to stabilize...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (123+ words) BILLERICA — A group of kayakers from the Shawsheen River Watershed Association took to the Concord River for their monthly paddle on Aug. 8, finding a peaceful place unfolding before their eyes as they paddled along. Launching near the North Billerica Fire…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (610+ words) Maine tourism generated $15.9 billion in economic impact. Plan your 2026 road trip to Portland, Bar Harbor, and Acadia with new fee and reservation info. Maine’s tourism sector generated an estimated $15.9 billion in total economic impact for fiscal 2024-25, highlighting a massive surge…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (485+ words) the 2-mile stretch from Forestville’s Steelhead Beach to Sunset Beach, which experts say takes about 4.5 hours. The route...Guerneville in Western Sonoma, century-old Johnson’s Beach offers rentals for day floaters and cabin and bungalow...will set you back $75. A popular…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (777+ words) Monadnock Ledger-Transcript A favorite paddle features a palette of green: watery, pickerelweed-lined channels chock-full of spatterdock. Its promising beginning – deep enough water from which to launch – quickly gives way to an impenetrable wall of aquatic vegetation, seemingly a dead end....