Mount Katahdin is the highest mountain in the U.S. state of Maine at 5,269 feet (1,606 m). Named Katahdin, which means "Great Mountain", by the Penobscot Native Americans, it is within Northeast Piscataquis, Piscataquis County, and is the centerpiece of Baxter State Park. It is a steep, tall massif formed from a granite intrusion weathered to the surface. The flora and fauna on the mountain are typical of those found in northern New England, with the summit hosting fragile and endangered alpine tundra.
Katahdin from 10,000 ft (3,000 m)
Mount Katahdin
Mount Katahdin from Millinocket Camp, by Frederic Edwin Church, 1895
The Appalachian Trail on Katahdin's Hunt Spur
Maine is the easternmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest, respectively. Maine is the largest state in New England by total area. Of the 50 U.S. states, it is the 12th-smallest by area, the 9th-least populous, the 13th-least densely populated, and the most rural. Maine's capital is Augusta, and its most populous city is Portland, with a total population of 68,408, as of the 2020 census.
Maine State House, designed by Charles Bulfinch, built 1829–1832
Misty Morning, Coast of Maine Arthur Parton (1842–1914). Between 1865 and 1870, Brooklyn Museum.
The Maine coast and Portland Head Light
Rocky shoreline in Acadia National Park