Caribou Pond Road - Maine, USA
Posted by: 
tatie
N 45° 03.222 W 070° 20.686
19T E 394110 N 4989795
Caribou Pond Trail is located in Carrabassett Valley, Maine.
Waymark Code: WMDRT8
Location: Maine, United States
Date Posted: 02/20/2012
Views: 10
If you want to climb the three summits Crocker South, Crocker North and Redington, you need to take this road that will bring you to the beginning of the trail.
Let me narrate here a paragraph written in the Appalachian Mountain Club page about Redington :
"Since Redington has been recognized as a 4000-Footer, we will probably attempt to keep this route open and marked. However, the logging in the Caribou Valley has probably come to an end (perhaps for several decades) and recent reports suggest that several of the bridges on the Caribou Valley road are near the point of critical decrepitude, and may well be impassable after the next heavy flow of water, whether it be a spring thaw, a dying hurricane or whatever. (And if not then, after the next flood, or the next one...) Prior to the most recent round of intensive logging, which started about 1982, the Caribou Valley road was notorious for its infernally automobilicidal washouts. I have heard reports of signs of a possible intent to repair this road, but since I do not know of any good business reason why S. D. Warren or Scott Paper or Kimberly-Clark or SAPPI or whoever owns the land this week would do this nor why anyone else would, I remain skeptical about the future of the Caribou Valley road. Therefore, in the very near future the Caribou Valley routes may require long road walks, possibly even for those with four-wheel-drive vehicles."
Now look at the pictures!
Overall Trail Difficulty: Whoa partner, this is getting hard
Land Ownership: Public
Popularity: Sparse
Highest Altitude: 2100 ft
Trail Length (approx): 4.5 miles
Parking availble?: Yes
Room for Trailers: No
Permit required to access area?: No
Camping sites nearby: No
Are OHVs permitted: Yes
Additional Trailhead: N 45° 05.334 W 070° 19.866
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