Although Maine is the largest of the New England states, it is still relatively small—ranking 39th in area. It remains a state with a low population density, at just about 1.3 million residents, mostly living near the southern coast. From its wooded interior to its rocky shoreline, here are a few glimpses of the landscape of Maine and some of the wildlife and people calling it home.
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Portland Head Light stands in Fort Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The original light was built in 1791, making this the oldest lighthouse in Maine. #
A couple takes in the view from the Ocean Lookout ledges of Mount Megunticook at Camden Hills State Park in Camden, Maine, on October 12, 2009. #
From left, Rumford, Maine, firefighters Mark Arsenault, Ray Crockett, and Brian Lyle, along with other teammates, compete in the Masters of the Hose ski race at the Sunday River ski resort on March 25, 2018, in Newry, Maine. The annual race raises money for the Sunday River Community Fund. #
A cobbled street lined with shops and pubs, photographed in the Old Port district of Portland, Maine, on October 8, 2015 #
A moose stands in a lake in Baxter State Park in Maine’s Piscataquis County. #
An Atlantic puffin holds herring and other baitfish in its beak on Eastern Egg Rock, a small island off the coast of Maine, on July 19, 2019. #
A view of the town of Camden on Camden Harbor, as seen from Mount Battie #
Lobstermen Lance Robbins, Jeremy Pratt, and Nathaniel Lane sort through traps as they toss a lobster that is too small to keep back into the Gulf of Maine on July 3, 2019, in Deer Isle, Maine. #
Spear fisherman Aristotle Captain, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, hunts for tautog while snorkeling near Nubble Light in York, Maine, on August 14, 2019. Tautog is a species of wrasse fish that lives on the rocky bottom. #
A girl holds a handful of wild blueberries picked near Sherman, Maine, on August 7, 2017. #
Shriners drive their “lobster boats” along the road as they take part in the Fourth of July parade through the town of Deer Isle on July 4, 2019. #
A view of Lewiston, Maine, at night #
David Lisherness casts a fly with hopes of enticing a strike from either a brook or rainbow trout on the Carrabassett River on June 5, 2020, in Kingfield, Maine. #
A common loon swims in Acadia National Park. #
A bull leaps over an electric fence as he is driven back into the pasture after escaping onto a road in Turner, Maine, on May 29, 2016. #
Massive stacks of eastern white pine dwarf Glenn Rowe, a scaler at Hancock Lumber, on June 5, 2018, in Bethel, Maine. Rowe uses a scaling ruler to measure length and diameter to determine how many board feet the mill will get after the wood is cut. #
Rumford Mill, a paper and pulp mill near Rumford, Maine, photographed along the Androscoggin River during sunrise. #
Red-fox kits play in a field at the edge of the woods in Parkman, Maine, on May 23, 2014. #
Ellen Werner enjoys the snow-covered landscape following an early spring snowstorm that dumped several inches of heavy, wet snow in Freeport, Maine, on March 24, 2020. #
Sally Manikian, of Shelburne, New Hampshire, gets a high-five as her Alaskan huskies charge from the start of the Irving Woodlands Can-Am Crown 100-mile sled-dog race on March 3, 2018, in Fort Kent, Maine. #
Wind-blown frost clings to berries following a snowstorm on Little Jackson Mountain on December 4, 2015, near Weld, Maine. #
Carl Renezeder of Laguna Beach, California, sails over a jump while racing in the Red Bull Frozen Rush short-course off-road truck race on January 10, 2014, at the Sunday River ski resort in Newry, Maine. #
A view of Mount Katahdin, the highest mountain in the state, from Patten, Maine #
The Frank J. Wood Bridge and the Pejepscot Paper Company mill building on the Androscoggin River in the town of Topsham. The 1868 mill building has been restored and is now home to the Sea Dog Brewing Company and other businesses. #
Mark Warner, a guide with Acadia Mountain Guides, ascends Wonder Wall, a rock-climbing route at ocean’s edge at Otter Cliffs in Acadia National Park, on August 1, 2018, near Bar Harbor, Maine. #
Bruce Steeves uses a lantern while dip-netting for elvers on a river in southern Maine on March 23, 2012. Baby eels are the most lucrative fishery in the state on a per-pound basis, typically sold as seed stock to Asian aquaculture companies so they can be raised to maturity and processed into food. #
The schooner Mary Day, right, sails in a schooner race with other members of Maine’s windjammer fleet off Rockland, Maine, on July 6, 2012. #
Russell Norris of Tylertown, Mississippi, dives into the chilly Swift River at Coos Canyon in Byron, Maine, on July 11, 2014. #
The buildings of downtown Augusta, seen along the banks of the Kennebec River #
A winter view of Spring Point Ledge Light, situated on the main shipping channel into Portland Harbor, in South Portland, Maine. #
A boy practices skating at a flooded downtown park in Brunswick, Maine, on January 22, 2015. #
Buildings of the historic Pepperell Mill Campus stand alongside the Saco River in the town of Biddeford, Maine. #
The rocky Bar Harbor coastline, photographed in autumn, on November 8, 2013 #
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