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Outside Magazine, August 1994
Last-Minute Summer Vacations Cabin in the Woods
Bradford Camps, Maine
Take advantage of August's slow trout fishing by booking into one of northern Maine's remote sportsmen's lodges, which earlier in summer are packed with anglers. Bradford Camps, on 1,500 acre Munsungan Lake, about 100 miles north of Bangor as the floatplane flies, is an 1890 classic with a moose-antler chandelier and other dead-animalabilia in the main lodge and eight log cabins--"camps" in Mainespeak--that sleep two to six.
Huntin' and fishin' tradition aside, Bradford Camps is gorgeously situated for a week of bloodless recreation, sans blackflies (they're gone by August) and with lake water that's warm enough for swimming. Canoes are put to good use on, among other streams, the Aroostook River, which flows from Munsungan Lake. Hikers take to woods webbed with old logging roads or bushwhack up Munsungan Ridge, across the lake and some 500 vertical feet above the lodge. Fishing for brookies, blueback trout, and landlocked salmon, even though peak season is over, is hardly hopeless.
Lodging with three family-style meals costs $100 per person per day. You can fly to Bradford Camps via floatplane from Presque Isle or Bangor for about $150 round-trip. Or drive: The lodge is about 50 miles over private logging roads from Ashland. Call 207-746-7777.
Igor and Karen Sikorsky
P.O. Box 729
Ashland, ME 04732
May-November
207-433-0660
Dec-April
207-439-6364