Bethel is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,504 at the 2020 census. It includes the villages of Bethel and West Bethel. The town is home to Gould Academy, a private preparatory school, and is near the Sunday River ski resort.
Bethel Common
Barn, Bethel, Maine
Androscoggin River, late March, Bethel, Maine
Ferry across the Androscoggin River at West Bethel in 1909
Oxford County is a county in the state of Maine, United States. As of the 2020 Census, the county had a population of 57,777. Its county seat is the town of Paris. The county was formed on March 4, 1805, by the Massachusetts General Court in the Maine District from northerly portions of York and Cumberland counties. It borders the Canadian province of Quebec. Part of Oxford County is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England City and Town Area while a different part of Oxford County is included in the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, Maine metropolitan New England City and Town Area.
Strathglass Building at Rumford, Maine.
Typical fall landscape in Oxford County, ME.
Spruce Mountain Wind Farm is one of three wind farms in Oxford County, ME.