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Camping

Camping in the Great Pond Mountain Wildlands The Wildlands is open for camping year-round at two designated campsites, by reservation. Baker Brook is about a mile’s hike from North Gate, and is suitable for  groups, with a lean-to and 3-4 tent sites, plus a pit...

Hopkins Meadow property

A visit to the flooded Hopkins Meadow January 6, 2011, yielded signs of beaver, moose, deer, hare and coyote. The Town of Orland donated this property January 10, 2011, to GPMCT.

DePaolo property

These photos were taken in summer, 2011 on the DePaolo property, purchased by GPMCT in Dec., 2011. This property abuts the Wildlands Dead River parcel.

GPMCT purchases Hay Ledges, Orland donates swamp

This winter, GPMCT has added two more pieces of land to the Great Pond Mountain Wildlands – one a gift from the Town of Orland, and another part of a campaign to close the gap between the two tracts of the Wildlands. Both parcels will be put into Tree Growth tax...

New wildlife meadows created

Visitors to the Dead River side of the Wildlands will notice some spectacular new views of Dead River and Alamoosook Lake this year. GPMCT received cost-share funds in 2011 from the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service’s WHIP (Wildlife Habitat Incentives...