Old Canada Road
National Scenic Byway
1771 US Route 201 ~ PO Box 100
The Forks, Maine 04985
800-765-7238 (US & Canada)
207-663-4466
Maine Offers The Best Snowmobiling In The East!
Northern Outdoors is your passport to the ultimate Maine snowmobiling vacation! Maine's 13,000 miles of groomed snowmobile trails are regarded as some of the finest in the country. And nowhere in Maine does snowmobiling get any better than at Northern Outdoors in The Forks. Don't just take our word for it - read what American Snowmobiler and SuperTrax International have to say about Northern Outdoors and our area trails.
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3/8 We are still riding and grooming out of Shin Pond, Bowlin and Matagamon area! How are the trails? Yes it is spring like riding conditions but with the cold temps at night the grooming continues and yes by late afternoon the trails are mushy but the riding is still good. We welcome you to trailer to Shin Pond Village and ride from here. Our 50 mile loop Shin Pond to Bowlin and then onto Matagamon is good and 71D to Grand Lake Seboeis is great. Club trail 64 is also good. ITS 85 North to Oxbow, Ashland and Portage is all still good. CAUTION: Lake and River crossings are at your own risk. As always feel free to call or email me anytime at 528-2900 or shinpondvillage@fairpoint.net Terry Check out our live webcam at shinpond.com
While we are still riding and grooming and there are still parts of our system with tons of snow, the hot sun of the weekend really took a toll on the trail sections that we have been just hanging on to for the past couple of weeks. Consider the trails to the hotels and the South Twin Bridge (Wiley Crossing) to be trails to be avoided unless we get 6 or 8 inches of snow. We will no longer be grooming them without additional snow. Also while the Pole line will get you to Millinocket Lake from town, we groomed it for the last time last Saturday, with out more snow. It is passable but will be a slow ride with lots of bobbing and weaving around dirt, rocks and other assorted challenges! Please use extra caution. Also allot of our signs are starting to fall over, and while we stand them up where we can, cautions and arrows may not be standing in all locations... Again ride with caution.
As for the rest of the system, we are moving into spring riding conditions. The higher elevations backcountry riding is awesome with deep snow in most places above 1200 to 1500 feet of elevations. As for groomed trails we are still grooming ITS86 from Twin Pines west and the Timber Cruisers East. The first few miles from each starting point are thin on snow but it gets better and better as you gain elevation and distance. We are also grooming the Logan Pond trail and the Grant Brook Road but coverage is getting thin on both trails where they were plowed early in the winter. Both the Twin Pines Snowmobile Club and the Jo Mary Riders Club will be grooming tonight and again before the weekend if the weather and conditions warrant. I highly recommend a ride from our area out to Kakadjo and or Chesuncook village and the Chesuncook Lake House as the snow conditions and grooming in this direction continue to support great riding. Additionally the riding north to Bowlin and the Patten Shin Pond area is good and there is always snow on the ungroomed Baxter Park Road to Mattagamon! Expect the conditions on the trails we are grooming to be good to excellent with a few sections closer to town that will require a little careful riding and navigation to pass. Join us this week or weekend, gas, food (thursday through Sunday) and lodging are still available at Twin Pine Camps. And Remember what those that ride the Katahdin Region regularly know! Its not how much snow you have, but what you do with it that counts! Ride here and benifit from the pride we take in making and keeping our trail system one of the very best in the state!
Matthew A. Polstein
NORTHERN OUTDOORS
The Forks, Maine
MAINE'S PREMIER 4 SEASON ADVENTURE
VACATION RESORT
- WITH SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE OF ALL AGES !
When the snow
flies, Northern Outdoors delivers the
best
SNOWMOBILING VACATIONS
in the East! With an average snowfall of nearly
10 feet, it's no wonder people from around New
England come to The Forks to experience the best
snow and the incredible winter scenery of
Maine's North Woods. And if you've never tried
snowmobiling - Maine's most modern fleet of
rental snowmobiles and a professional staff
await you!
Know Your Hand Signals!
Do you know the basic hand-signals that
give other snowmobilers, or in many
instances, cars, an indication of what
you’re doing?
Let's review: Turning left?
Extend your left arm straight out
Turning right?
Then put your left arm straight out &
raise your forearm with the elbow at a
90 degree angle
How do you signal
your stopping?
Raise your left arm straight up!
Slowing down?
Put your left arm straight out and angle
in a downward, flapping motion!
Simple, you bet, but using these signals
are critical in being a safe &
responsible rider on the trails!
