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Appalachian Trail: ME 17 to ME 4Backpacker Magazine

Connect four picturesque ponds on this 12.2-mile leg that rolls across wooded hills to the Sandy River. Watch for moose too.

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Author: Backpacker Magazine
Activity: Backpacking
State: Maine (ME)
Distance: 12.24 mi 
Difficulty: 6 / 10
Rating: Unrated  
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Shelters: Sabbath Day Pond Lean-to; sleeps 8.

TO TRAILHEAD: Start: From Byron, ME, take ME 17 northwest for 10.7 miles to trail crossing.

End: From Phillips, ME, head west on ME 4 for 12.2 miles to trail crossing.

DIRECTIONS + WAYPOINTS: helping you find your way

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Distance: 12.24 mi Points: 1161
Total Time: none Speed: 0.0 mph Pace: 0:00 / mi
Active Time: none Speed: 0.0 mph Pace: 0:00 / mi
ME 17 to ME 4

Points of Interest

WPT001

Location: 44.835983, -70.710052
ME 17. View of Mooselookmeguntic Lake

WPT001

Location: 44.868584, -70.560654
Stream

WPT002

Location: 44.845783, -70.686897
Water; inlet to Moxie Pond

WPT002

Location: 44.878567, -70.555748
View of Saddleback Mtn.

WPT003

Location: 44.846035, -70.685966
Moxie Pond

WPT004

Location: 44.850151, -70.675766
Stream

WPT005

Location: 44.849865, -70.666901
View of Long Pond

WPT006

Location: 44.846317, -70.663033
Streams

WPT007

Location: 44.844635, -70.662567
Beach and picnic tables on shore of Long Pond

WPT008

Location: 44.840199, -70.663666
Sabbath Day Pond Lean-to

WPT009

Location: 44.842850, -70.656967
Stream

WPT010

Location: 44.842865, -70.656219
Houghton Fire Road

WPT011

Location: 44.843082, -70.627670
Unnamed Peak

WPT012

Location: 44.850067, -70.592232
Little Swift River Pond; campsite with canoes

WPT013

Location: 44.858017, -70.580864
Swamp Outlet

WPT014

Location: 44.866451, -70.559166
South Pond; water, canoes, rowboats, and moose

WPT017

Location: 44.886871, -70.540680
ME 4

DSCF9085

Location: 44.835983, -70.710052



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