Ascending a vertical sheet of frozen water might look harrowing, but several Maine guiding services will help even total ...

Thanks to the ITS, it is now entirely feasible to hop on a sled in York County and wind up at the top of Aroostook County.

The university's marine-science center is a magnet for misfit crustaceans, including orange, yellow, blue, purple, calico, and split-colored lobsters.

On a late-January evening at Absolem Cider Company, in Winthrop, wisps of smoke tinged with the sweet-tangy scent of cooking apples rose into the icy blueness. The cidery’s founders, Ryan Travers, ...

The Chickadees are chiseling away at a male-dominated craft.

On a bitterly cold, bluebird afternoon last winter, a trio of women in matching blaze-orange parkas gathered at Quarry Road Trails, in Waterville, to will a Greek goddess from a hunk of snow. They’d ...

We canvassed sledders across the state to point you to a few superb slopes, whether you’re chaperoning the kids or grandkids or sneaking in a few runs yourself. In Damariscotta, the Coastal Rivers ...

On Thanksgiving, Dan Powell will set his two acres of woods along Route 124 alight with 62,070 LED bulbs worth of twinkling Yuletide cheer.

Maine is home to some of the best activities and things to do outdoors in the country. See our events calendar below and find the best things to do in Maine.

On a camping trip in 1979, Ted and Laura Sweeney, a Massachusetts couple, fell in love with Acadia National Park. A year later, they started a business, Tempshield Cryo-Protection, making gloves that ...

Every time the telephone rings in Bryant Pond, it’s a crank call. That doesn’t mean all the town’s 300 telephone subscribers are displeased with the service. It’s just that they share the unique ...