Swimming Holes in Maine

<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#663333" link="#0000cc" vlink="#009900" alink="#009900"> <table width="100%" cellspacing=5 cellpadding=0 border=0> <tr> <td align=center valign=middle> <b>Day Trips With a Splash: Northeastern Swimming Holes</b><p> <p style="text-indent: 15; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="left">The two most dramatic water features in Baxter State Park. (That’s Little Niagara above. Big Niagara is pictured full page at the front of the chapter.) A large granite outcrop with a narrow notch sends Nesowadnehunk Stream tumbling 22 vertical feet into a broad basin. Downstream a log has washed up against a cedar. You sit on it under low, dense conifer shade with 20 feet of sand beach in front of you, while the pink Katahdin granite and the dark green Nesowadnehunk slash across your frame of view. If your tired feet are working their way up the Appalachian Trail, or if you got a book of poetry for your birthday, Little Niagara has what is positively the best place to relax and reflect.</p> <br> <br> If you are reading this then you have a browser that is not frames enabled or else you have the frames capability turned off. This site is constructed using frames in order for it to be easily navigated and updated.<br> </table> </body>