Maine’s moose hangout
A weekend at Maine’s Moosehead Lake appealed to me for two reasons, said Christopher Borrelli in the Chicago Tribune. Not only did its densely forested surroundings promise me the chance to see moose in their natural habitat, it also guaranteed more moose than people. Three hours north of Portland, Moosehead Lake sits at the doorstep of Maine’s “hallowed north woods.” A “long glowing patch of flat water,” the state’s largest lake is cradled by the forested Longfellow Mountains. “‘Tranquil’ understates it.” Moosehead offers the same peace and quiet that Henry David Thoreau found and wrote about in his 1864 travel journal, The Maine Woods. As I stood at the water’s edge, “the horizon shifted from blue to the silver of the sun to the green of the forest.” Two moose, looking like “a pair of Secret Service agents,” eyed me as they patrolled the area. In a single afternoon, I had found everything I came for.
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