Hiking, climbing Mt Katahdin, Baxter State Park.
When you live in a state as drop dead gorgeous and unspoiled as Maine, you just don't park it on the couch. Off the device, planning your next trip to hike and climb Mt Katahdin, Baster State Park in the great state of Maine.
It's more than the exercise, major views and all the wildlife when you visit Baxter State Park.
Maine's highest mountain Mt Katahdin steals the show and is hard to miss.
The dream of Maine Governor Percival Baxter who bought with his own money the original 6000 acres that included Mt Katahdin.
Baxter was governor of Maine from 1921 to 1924.
The Maine land bought personally by Baxter for $25,000 was deeded over to the state. To be forever wild and used for a public park, recreational enjoyment.
Baxter wanted the park to be left natural, a home for wild beasts and birds.
To not see Mt Katahdin, Baxter State Park become commercialized or exploited by man. The park named in his honor in 1931 did not stop his life long desire to add to her increase in size through many Maine land acquisitions.
Over the years more Maine land acreage was added to the original purchase. Baxter donated his 28th deed of real estate conveyance at 87 years of age in 1962,
Dying a bachelor, Baxter left $7 million dollars to maintain the park when he passed away in 1969.
Baxter State Park stretched out over 314 square miles of pristine waterways, with hundreds of thousands of acres home to all types of Maine wildlife.
Generations flock to Baxter State Park for day and longer stays to ply the trails.
To capture the photos and videos and enjoy the wildlife, plants and wooded natural landscape surrounding hikers and happy campers. Baxter State Park is not a line item you cross off never to return.
The experience is not once and done and affects a person much deeper than that.
Earning a law degree from Harvard but never opening up a legal practice, Percival Baxter served in the state senate and house of representatives. The bulk of his family fortune was made through real estate.
Read more about his legacy, Mt Katahdin Baxter State Park.
Baxter State Park is one of many reasons to live in Maine full time. Or to sample her charm while on Maine vacations.
No better place to raise kids either 
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