The successful AWWF Youth on the Allagash (YOTA) trips were expanded in 2023 to include an Advanced Leadership Wilderness Trip. Guided by Canoe the Wild, the leadership trip was a fully outfitted multi‐day paddling and camping trip for high school students from the St. John Valley. Priority was given to...
Read moreAn excellent article on The Telos Cut was written by Elizabeth Bennett and published in the Memories of Maine Magazine Winter 2022 edition. Excerpt: In the 1840s, the need to drive logs down the Penobscot River and into Bangor was so strong it motivated wheeling and dealing, sparked violence, pushed innovation,...
Read moreA year ago I wrote that the future is full of uncertainties. While uncertainties still exist, regarding COVID-19, our country and we are now in a much better place. Each of us has faced multiple challenges over the last year, yet collectively the AWWF has weathered the storm well. The...
Read moreDear Friend of the Allagash, I hope our Annual Appeal letter finds you, family, and friends safe and well. We live in a time of health and economic uncertainty, and if this has struck you or anyone close to you, the board of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation (AWWF) wishes a...
Read moreThe Bureau of Parks and Lands (BPL) recently installed new fire tower cabs on Allagash, Round Pond (T13 R12) and Deboullie Mountains. These projects have been in the planning stages for many years. I personally had wondered if it would actually happen in my lifetime. It seemed as though every...
Read moreThe Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation (AWWF) salutes AWW Superintendent Matt LaRoche and all the AWW rangers on this international day of celebration. Their leadership and professionalism protect and enhance the Waterway, and deliver a safe and rewarding visitor experience that is of exceptional quality. We at the Foundation thank them, and...
Read moreAllagash Explorer is available at the following outlets: • Bogan Books (Fort Kent) • BookStacks (Bucksport) • Epic Sports (Bangor) • Green Hand Bookshop (Portland and online) • Gulf of Maine Books (Brunswick) • L.L. Bean Bike, Boat & Ski Store (Freeport) • New England Outdoor Center (Millinocket) • Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops • Shin Pond Village (Mt. Chase) • North Maine Woods gates to the Allagash • Online through the Northern Forest Canoe Trail.
Read moreBoard President Bob McIntosh provided the following to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation Board of Directors at the Foundation’s annual meeting held on June 15, 2020. We hope you will enjoy reading this message and thank you for your continued support of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway....
Read moreThe Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation is pleased to announce the release of the pocket-size Allagash Explorer, A Take-Along Companion For Maine’s Wilderness Waterway, created in collaboration with the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands. Designed for use in all seasons, Allagash Explorer differs from other guides that offer paddling and camping...
Read moreThe Allagash Wilderness Waterway (AWW) celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2016. In honor of this milestone, the AWW offered 500 signed and numbered prints of Mark McCollough’s painting of a family paddling below Allagash Falls. A number of these limited edition prints (24 by 20 inches) are still available from the Maine...
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