Fryeburg Travel Guide
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Cultural amenities are few; natural amenities are legion. Hikers have the famed Appalachian Trail, which crosses into Maine in the Mahoosuc Mountains (near where Rte. 26 enters New Hampshire) and follows rivers and ridgelines northeast to Bigelow Mountain and beyond. Canoeists and anglers head to the Rangeley Lakes area, a chain of deepwater ponds and lakes that has attracted sportsmen for over a century; in winter, skiers can choose among several downhill ski areas, including the state's two largest, Sunday River and Sugarloaf.
Travelers typically scurry through Fryeburg on their way from the Maine coast to the White Mountains. They may buy a tank of gas or a sandwich, but they don't give much thought to this town set amid a region of rolling hills and placid lakes. Many don't even realize that 50,000 acres of the White Mountain National Forest spill over from New Hampshire into Maine just north of Fryeburg; and they don't know that the White Mountain foothills harbor some of the best hiking and canoeing in the region. Evans Notch has granite peaks and tumbling cascades; and the meandering Saco River is rife with sandbars that invite canoeists to pull over and laze away a sunny afternoon.
This region also has one of the most pristine and appealing lakes in Maine -- Kezar Lake, with the White Mountains as its backdrop. Kezar Lake is all the more appealing because public access is more difficult than at most lakes, and few roads touch its shores.
Day-trippers from Portland and Boston have discovered the allure of this region (at about 1 1/2 hr. away, it's virtually in Portland's backyard), but it still lacks the crowds and commercialism of the more developed valleys of New Hampshire's White Mountains.
