Located on the rugged coast of Maine, Acadia National Park encompasses over 47, 000 acres of granite-domed mountains, woodlands, lakes and ponds, and ocean shoreline.
The Roosevelt Campobello International Park is not a unit of the United States National Park Service or Parks Canada. It is administered by a joint U.S./Canadian Commission, funded equally by the two countries.
Moosehorn is one of the northern most national wildlife refuges in the Atlantic Flyway, a migratory route that follows the eastern coast of North America. The refuge provides important feeding and nesting habitat for many bird species, including waterfowl.
Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge is located on part of the former Loring Air Force Base, in Limestone, Maine. It was established in 1998, when 4, 700 acres were transferred from the U.S. Air Force to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Between 1972 and 1980, the refuges in the Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge Complex were established for the protection of migratory birds, principally colonial nesting seabirds.
Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1966 in cooperation with the State of Maine to protect valuable salt marshes and estuaries for migratory birds.
Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is located in the Town of Milford, Penobscot County, Maine, approximately fourteen miles north of Bangor.