100-Mile Wilderness

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The 100-Mile Wilderness is the section of the Appalachian Trail running between Abol Bridge just south of Baxter State Park and Monson, Maine, USA. It is often considered the wildest section of the Appalachian Trail. This section of the A.T. is crossed by several logging roads and is maintained by the Maine Appalachian Trail Club. It consists of a small corridor of protected wilderness surrounded by large tracts of public and private land controlled by paper companies. An increasing amount of the adjoining lands are being protected by groups like the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Nature Conservancy. Bill Bryson's book A Walk in the Woods describes the difficulty of hikers who must wade through deep water in sections of the trail. In his book he also can not finish it but states that this is not a very common occurrence as most people that get to the wilderness have hiked the whole trail to get there. The corridor is about 150 miles from the nearest town at the 50.1 Mile mark.