The building is named in honor of the university's 12th president, Ken Hawkinson, who's retiring next month. He says he's happy the plaque inside will have information about his wife and dog.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff Katahdin is the crown jewel of the Maine outdoors. It looms large over the ...

Established eight years ago, Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument will welcome the public to a new contact station this summer. In northern Maine, Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument ...

The new Tekαkαpimək Contact Station, a 7,900 sq ft visitor centre within a 23-acre site atop Lookout Mountain, has just been completed in Maine, USA. Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument spans ...

“No national park,” the yard signs said. “Give Maine Back to Mainers.” This was nearly a decade ago, amid opposition to philanthropist and Burt’s Bees cofounder Roxanne Quimby’s plan to donate 87,563 ...

Credit: Olivia Gieger/Inside Climate News The land sits in north central Maine, near the town of Millinocket, close to Baxter State Park and the Katahdin Woods ... build a visitor center at ...

The visitor center for the Maine Woods and Waters National Monument was officially ... with a grand view of Katahdin – “the mountain of the people of Maine,” according to its donor, Percival ...

The Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters hosted a “first look” Aug. 17-18 at the Tekαkαpimək Contact Station, a visitors center for Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. The station ...

With light wood inside and out the building feels open to the surrounding woods, and offers a direct line of sight to Mount Katahdin, which holds spiritual ... and what you can experience here as a ...

of the Interior Sec. Deb Haaland on Saturday morning about the creation of Tekαkαpimək, Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument visitor’s center, called a contact station. “It’s clear that every ...