FACTS ABOUT MAINE...

• Has a population of over 1,000,000.
  
  
• Is about 320 miles long and 210 miles wide, and has a total area of approximately 33,215 square miles.
  
  
• Has over 21,000 miles of public highways, exceeding the total mileage of any other New England state.
  
  
• Is almost as big as all of the other five New England States put together.
  
  
• Has one county (Aroostook) so big (6,453 square miles) that it actually covers an area greater than the combined size of Connecticut and Rhode Island.
  
  
• Claims America's first chartered town - York, chartered in 1641.
  
  
• Is recognized as one of the most healthful, beautiful and interesting states in the nation.
  
  
• Has 17 million acres of forestland and 3,500 miles of indescribably beautiful coastline, with bays, coves and similar indentations.
  
  
• Has 2,295 square miles of inland water area and over 2,000 coastal islands.
  
  
• Is one of America's largest blueberry growing states, raising 90% of the low-bush blueberries in North America.
  
  
• Potatoes rank 3rd in acreage and 4th in production nationally.
  
  
• One of the mountains is approximately one mile high - Mt. Katahdin (5,268 ft above sea level).
  
  
• Is nationally famed for the fine taste, texture and fresh color of its seafood, superior traits due to all the cool, clear waters which provide the perfect environment.
  
  
• Boasts 6,000 lakes and ponds and 5,100 rivers and streams abounding land-locked salmon, trout, smallmouthed bass, pickerel and perch.
  
  
• Makes a variety of products from toothpicks to destroyers.
  
  
• Has more than 25 ski areas, including nationally-known Sugarloaf USA which has a 9,000 ft. gondola line.
  
  
• Has 436,064 acres of state and national parks, including the 92-mile Allagash Wilderness Waterway in northern Maine.
  
  
• Abounds in natural assets - lakes, beaches, mountains, seacoast - which make Maine the Land of Remembered Vacations.