RANGE PONDS STATE PARK, Poland, Maine

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Range Ponds State Park is a public recreation area in the town of Poland in Androscoggin County, Maine. The state park wraps around the eastern end of 290-acre (120 ha) Lower Range Pond. The park offers a sandy beach with lifeguard-supervised swimming, kayaking, limited motorized boating, hiking trails, and fishing. Mountain biking trails, built with the help of local volunteers, provide intermediate-level, single-track loops off a central double-track trail that winds through mature pine and hardwood forests.

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Maine State Parks - A short drive from one of Maine's major urban areas, Lewiston and Auburn, Range Ponds State Park welcomes visitors who enjoy the wide sandy beach as they swim, picnic and play. Most activity centers on the waterfront which is easily accessible because of the smooth, surfaced promenade that parallels the pond for 1000 feet immediately next to the beach.

Watersports are popular activities; small boats, canoes, kayaks and windsurf boards dot the horizon. A public boat launch site is located at the end of the beach and is limited to 10 horsepower motors.

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