This picture-postcard scene varies little throughout the year. Yet each season in the Rangeley Lakes Region offers its own choice of activities for which the landscape and lakes provide a perfect setting. Around the turn of the century, these were the best-known native brook trout waters in the world, yielding giants so huge that visitors had trouble believing they were brookies. Later, stocked landlocked salmon took hold and joined trout as a choice catch. Today's visitor may pursue the descendants of lunker trout and salmon that have made the Region a fishing mecca, particularly for fly casting.
Hikers follow trails that criss-cross the woods.
Mountain bikes enable even inexperienced peddlers to traverse country roads that follow the rolling hills, while steeper mountains challenge the most seasoned expert. The Mingo Springs Golf Course is played and praised by duffers and low handicappers alike. It is known as one of the most scenic layouts in all of New England, with Saddleback Mountain rising to the east and meandering lakes stretching as far as the eye can see to the west. In recent years, windsurf sails have joined in, taking advantage of breezes that blow down onto the lake waters from the surrounding mountains. Fall gives Mother Nature an opportunity to put on her most dazzling Technicolor display.