Mount Blue State Park in Weld offers camp sites as well as a variety of day activities, such as hiking, swimming and mountain biking. It can be reached from southern Maine by following the Maine Turnpike to Route 136 in Auburn. Take that road a short distance to Route 4, and follow that road until it intersects with Route 156 in Wilton. Take Route 156 until it hits Route 142. Follow the signs to the park.
Younger children are free.
They include fixing culverts or repaving the roads, putting a new roof on the bath house, and resurfacing park trails. As Farnham speaks, he constantly spots a discarded cigarette butt or torn bit of paper, mechanically reaching down to pick it up. His eye also sees the spots where trees have been selectively removed to enhance a view, say of Webb Lake or Mount Blue. Moving onto a nearby nature trail, Farnham gestures toward the soil and bits of bark on the ground. It's the stuff you'd find on any hiking path and always assumed had come from nature.