Appalachian Trail: ME 17 to ME 4

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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Shelters: Sabbath Day Pond Lean-to; sleeps 8.

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Trail Facts

  • Distance: 19.7

Waypoints

WPT009

Location: 44.8428497314453, -70.6569671630859

Stream

WPT003

Location: 44.8460350036621, -70.6859664916992

Moxie Pond

WPT006

Location: 44.8463172912598, -70.6630325317383

Streams

WPT014

Location: 44.8664512634277, -70.5591659545898

South Pond; water, canoes, rowboats, and moose

WPT008

Location: 44.8401985168457, -70.6636657714844

Sabbath Day Pond Lean-to

WPT010

Location: 44.8428649902344, -70.6562194824219

Houghton Fire Road

WPT002

Location: 44.8785667419434, -70.5557479858398

View of Saddleback Mtn.

WPT013

Location: 44.8580169677734, -70.5808639526367

Swamp Outlet

WPT001

Location: 44.8685836791992, -70.5606536865234

Stream

WPT004

Location: 44.8501510620117, -70.6757659912109

Stream

WPT001

Location: 44.8359832763672, -70.7100524902344

ME 17. View of Mooselookmeguntic Lake

WPT011

Location: 44.8430824279785, -70.6276702880859

Unnamed Peak

WPT007

Location: 44.8446350097656, -70.6625671386719

Beach and picnic tables on shore of Long Pond

WPT002

Location: 44.8457832336426, -70.686897277832

Water; inlet to Moxie Pond

WPT005

Location: 44.8498649597168, -70.6669006347656

View of Long Pond

WPT012

Location: 44.8500671386719, -70.5922317504883

Little Swift River Pond; campsite with canoes

WPT017

Location: 44.8868713378906, -70.5406799316406

ME 4

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Location: 44.8359832763672, -70.7100524902344