Shackford Head State Park

Shackford Head State Park
Maine State Park
Cobscook Bay from Shackford Head State Park
Country	United States
State	Maine
County	Washington

City	Eastport

Elevation	151 ft (46 m) ^[1]
Coordinates	44°54′00″N 67°00′59″W / 44.90000°N 67.01639°W / 44.90000; -67.01639Coordinates: 44°54′00″N 67°00′59″W / 44.90000°N 67.01639°W / 44.90000; -67.01639 ^[1]

Area	87 acres (35 ha) ^[2]

Established	1989 ^[3]
Management	Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry

Location in Maine
Website: Shackford Head State Park

Shackford Head State Park is a state-operated, public recreation area on Moose Island in the city of Eastport, Washington County, Maine. The 87-acre (35 ha) state park occupies a peninsula that separates Cobscook Bay and Broad Cove. The land is named for John Shackford, an American Revolutionary War soldier who once owned the headlands.^[3]

Features

The park has both inland and coastal hiking trails, including the Cony Beach Trail, Shackford Head Trail, and Schooner Trail.^[4] A plaque on Cony Beach marks the spot where five Civil War–era ships were burned for salvage during the early 1900s.^[3]

References

1 2 "Shackford Head". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
↑ "State Parks, State Historic Sites and Public Reserved Lands" (PDF). Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (published 2015). September 18, 2014. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
1 2 3 "Shackford Head State Park". Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. Retrieved July 25, 2014.
↑ Swartz, Brian (June 20, 2012). "Two state parks preserve Down East coastal beauty". Bangor Daily News. Bangor: Custom Publications. Retrieved March 17, 2013.

External links

Shackford Head State Park Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Shackford Head State Park Map Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry

Protected areas of Maine

Federal

National Parks and Historic Sites	Acadia National Park Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument Saint Croix Island International Historic Site

National Wildlife Refuges	Aroostook Carlton Pond Waterfowl Production Area Cross Island Franklin Island Moosehorn Petit Manan Pond Island Rachel Carson Seal Island Sunkhaze Meadows

National Forests	White Mountain

National Trails	Appalachian Trail

National Estuarine Research Reserves	Wells

State

State Parks	Allagash Wilderness Waterway Aroostook Baxter Birch Point Bradbury Mountain Camden Hills Cobscook Bay Crescent Beach Damariscotta Lake Ferry Beach Fort Point Grafton Notch Holbrook Island Sanctuary Lake St. George Lamoine Lilly Bay Moose Point Mount Blue Peacock Beach Peaks-Kenny Penobscot River Corridor Popham Beach Quoddy Head Range Ponds Rangeley Lake Reid Roque Bluffs Shackford Head Sebago Lake Swans Falls Campground Swan Lake Two Lights Vaughan Woods Warren Island Wolfe's Neck Woods

State Historic Sites	Bible Point Colburn House Colonial Pemaquid Eagle Island Fort Baldwin Fort Edgecomb Fort Halifax Fort Kent Fort Knox Fort McClary Fort O'Brien John Paul Jones Katahdin Iron Works Mayall Mills Whaleback Shell Midden

State Forests	Durham State Forest

Maine Department of Conservation (web)

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