The vast majority of Maine Alpine areas offer night skiing – and nearly half offer deals that top the day ticket pass.
Outdoors
Ask Maine Audubon: Be on the lookout for barred owls this winter
Your wildlife questions are answered by Maine Audubon Staff Naturalist Doug Hitchcox.
Hunting: Deer can see some colors, but not blaze orange
For a hunter blue jeans are bad, and while deer can see a human form – even if it is clad in orange – there are ways to stay ‘out of sight.’
Hiking in Maine: The Birches brings out best of Moosehead in winter
The Birches Resort has 40 miles of machine-tracked cross-country ski trails, remote yurts and a base lodge to welcome you in from the wilderness.
Hunting: What seems random is probably more of a survival instinct
From grouse to deer to snowshoe hare, so many actions are not just reactionary but often related to survival.
Hunting: Maine’s deer-hunting regulations can be downright confusing
The use of crossbows, for instance, provides ample examples of head-scratching regulations.
Ask Maine Audubon: Where are the birds? Probably not at your feeder
Your wildlife questions are answered by Maine Audubon Staff Naturalist Doug Hitchcox.
Extreme winter sport to debut in Maine at Lost Valley ski area
Ice cross – a sport in which skaters compete head-to-head down a steep track while navigating twists, banked turns and jumps – comes to Auburn in February.
Maine state park campgrounds set attendance record in 2022
It marks the third consecutive year of record-breaking attendance by campers at state parks.
Hiking: Farmington woman one year into historic cross-country journey
Briana DeSanctis is 3,000 miles into her quest to become the first woman to complete a solo thru-hike of the 6,800-mile American Discovery Trail.