Agriculture has a strong presence here, in both livelihood and culture. Fields of potatoes create the landscape, changing from green in spring to pink and white in summer to dusty brown in fall. Festivals celebrate the blossom season in July, and school calendars adjust so that all hands can help harvest in September.
Winter lasts a long time up here and snowmobiles are put to use both for recreation and transport.
Snowmobilers use the Interstate Trail System, which zigzags throughout the County and connects Maine to Canada. Rivaling Acadia National Park and Baxter State Park as protected areas of great beauty is the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. Established in 1966, this route of lakes, streams and ponds begins in Telos Lake, just north of Baxter State Park, and runs 92 miles almost all the way to the town of Allagash, where the Allagash and St. John Rivers meet. Special arrangements between logging companies and the state allow for recreational use, giving visitors access to an area of wilderness that is becoming more and more rare in the northeast. More hikers are beginning to wander through the southern part of the County, as an effort to stretch the Appalachian Trail to its geographic end gathers steam.