Rocky Lake
🏆🏆🏆🏆 Downeast Gem — Pristine Downeast lake surrounded by 10,000+ acres of conserved land — loon paradise
Rocky Lake Public Reserved Land protects a pristine lake in the Downeast Lakes region of Washington County — one of the most undeveloped landscapes remaining on the Atlantic seaboard. Rocky Lake and its surrounding 10,000+ acres of conserved land support nesting loons, bald eagles, and one of the healthiest brook trout populations in the state. The Downeast Lakes region’s low population density (13 people per square mile) creates wildlife habitat conditions unseen elsewhere in the eastern US.
Visitor Information
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Location | T18 MD BPP, Washington County, ME |
| Entry Fee | Free |
| Conserved | 10,000+ acres! |
| Wildlife | Loons, eagles, wild brook trout! |
About Rocky Lake
Rocky Lake public reserved land in Washington County protects a remote lake and surrounding forest in eastern Maine’s blueberry barrens country. The lake is undeveloped and surrounded by jack pine and pitch pine — fire-dependent species that give the landscape a distinctive character different from the spruce-fir of northern Maine.
Things to Do
Fishing for brook trout and bass, canoeing, primitive camping, birdwatching in the pine barrens habitat, and wild blueberry picking in late summer. The Down East setting ensures solitude.
About Rocky Lake
Rocky Lake in Washington County provides primitive camping on a Downeast lake surrounded by spruce-fir forest and blueberry barrens. Washington County — Maine’s easternmost — contains the first place in the United States to see sunrise (Cadillac Mountain in Acadia is nearby). The county is also the center of Maine’s wild blueberry industry — the largest in the world, producing 99% of America’s wild blueberries.
Things to Do
Primitive camping, fishing, canoeing, birdwatching, picking wild blueberries (seasonal), and experiencing the easternmost wilderness in the United States.
