Katahdin, located in Baxter State Park, is the tallest mountain in Maine - nearly a mile high, 5,270 feet (1,606 meters). But it’s not just the physical challenge that makes Katahdin so ...

A new welcome center at the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine tells the story of the land from the ...

Katahdin is the Abenaki word for “greatest mountain,” and Mount Katahdin is the centerpiece of Baxter State Park, just north of the center of Maine.

Katahdin, the tallest mountain in Maine, is nearly a mile high and is the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz) ORG XMIT: MER2015062419353290.

BAXTER STATE PARK I don’t remember much about my climb up Mount Katahdin 25 years ago. I was young and fit. It was no big deal. But my second climb is etched in my middle-aged mind with twinges ...

MILLINOCKET, Maine — Search teams have now found the bodies of both hikers who were missing on Mount Katahdin in Maine. Baxter State Park Rangers announced just before 3 p.m. Wednesday that they ...

Detail of Mount Katahdin on the famous 1835 map called A Plan of the Public Lands in the State of Maine, by Geo. Coffin. A Thoreau map of Katahdin, Gellert said, would make a splash.

A 58-year-old man and his 28-year-old daughter have both been found dead following a morning hike to Maine's Mount Katahdin over the weekend.. Tim Keiderling's body was found near the summit on ...

BAXTER STATE PARK, Maine (AP) — I don’t remember much about my climb up Mount Katahdin 25 years ago. I was young and fit. It was no big deal. But my second climb is etched in my middle-aged ...