Thread 2828926

any suggestions for /out/ in Maine?
its not that far from me and I was thinking about camping there for a couple days
Acadia seems to be the hot spot, but I looked at Nat park camp sites and they are completely booked for months.
Any low key places up there to camp?
Has anyone ever harvested sea weed? I read I can harvest 50 lbs a day, fresh sea weed is so insanely expensive and I like eating it I figured maybe I should try to get a bunch of it and stick it in a cooler.

>>2828926 (OP)
>completely booked for months.
Not entirely true. 10% of campsites are released for reservations 2 weeks out.

"For Blackwoods, Seawall and Schoodic Woods campgrounds, starting on Dec 1, 90 percent of campsites are released six months in advance on the first of each month at 10 am EST. The remaining 10 percent are released at 10 am 14 days ahead of a desired arrival date on a rolling basis."

>>2828949
the nat part site shows everything is reserved except for about 7 places for the next 2 months
it also doesn't show the actual campsites on
I don't even know what this reservation system is conveying...does that mean every spot on say July 15 is open? Or that there is one?
This doesn't line up with a 10% spot open every 2 weeks?

Any pro Maine posts are written by big lyme
opossum in all fields

>>2828952
>it also doesn't show the actual campsites on
it does. click on a specific campground and a map of all the sites pops up.

>>2828961
Mainer here this is true, for your own safety DO NOT EVER COME HERE

There are plenty of private campgrounds on the island. Expensive as a motherfucker though. If you're up for it, just leave your car in a residential street in bar harbor (check signs carefully, some streets have weird rules), take the free bus into the park and hike well off-trail to camp (light no fires, leave no trash).
I'm pretty sure rangers don't clock in until 6:30am, so you could car camp at most trailheads if you arrive late and leave early.
>seaweed
People actually do this?. If you're going soon you might hit wild blueberry season. I believe park policy is you may harvest up to 1 pint a day.

>>2828926 (OP)
Baxter State Park.

>>2828978
I hope the locals treat your car like a fucking loot box, parasite.

>>2829006
I am a local. I see nothing wrong with trailhead camping provided you poop responsibly. FYI people here don't even lock their cars, nobody steals.

>>2828952
I haven't looked into Maine or what you are trying to book but here are 2 good tips.

First, recreation.gov is a horrible website based on horrible federal regulations. For short term in the future stuff you want to look for the NR listings. Then figure out when they come available. I'm hobocamping in a Walmart parking lot atm waiting for midnight to book a campsite I want in Teton. Some come available 4 days out, some up to 14.

The best tip is just show up and pray. Most of my camping is done diapered camping for free in national forests. And as far as I know Maine is essentially a giant national forest. And yeah some areas especially around national parks have done away with that. But even then most of the time you can find a paid for national forest site for the night.

An ancillary tip to the last one is get a cripple card for the national forest. It halves all your camping fees even if you want to camp in bougie Teton. I got mine because the army says I'm a cripple, but as far as I understand it can be literally anything. That one frog poster that cries about tinitus could get one of these cards.

>>2829094
>FYI people here don't even lock their cars, nobody steals.
Nice try. Milliknocket is so run down the people there can't be trusted.

>>2829101
You can't do a 5 mile hike.

>>2829095
>Most of my camping is done diapered

>>2829102
Keep projecting, methhead.

>>2829104
I genuinely think 4chan autocorrect intentionally tries to make me sound like an idiot.

This road trip I'm doing right now is the first time I've ever paid for campsites but my cripple pass makes them half price and some of them are really nice.

>>2829006
is katahdin better than the coast?
ive been sort of up in that region a couple times
its pretty cool
i went to this rally car race innawoods up there a couple times that was cool
>>2828961
ticks aren't around this time of year
too hot and dry
they only like cool and wet weather

>>2829172
Absolutely. Besides Acadia there's not a whole lot of good, public, coastal hiking anyway. Sure there's some beaches but the trails are usually very short around them. There's so much to see and do around Baxter. Hell you can just go drive the logging roads for the entire day if you want, just be aware you'll have to pay at checkpoints and usually they let you know what sections you can go and camp and shit without worry (outside of baxter even)

>>2829006
This. You're gonna see moose in your campsite and maybe bears. Also there was cow parsnip which I thought was giant hogweed, but it's not. Too small and lacks the hairs.

>>2828926 (OP)
what are you going to do with 50lbs of seaweed? The only kind I tried was carageenan(sp?)/irish moss. But I just pick it and chew a few 'leaves' of it.

>>2831410
eat it

>>2831410
boil it into a paste and rub it on your body. I've never tried this, or seen anyone else do it, but give it a whirl