Moosehead Lake

Moosehead Lake lies among the forested mountains of northern Maine and is the source of the Kennebec River. More than eighty islands dot its cold waters. On its eastern shore, the cliffs of Mount Kineo rise sharply above the lake; Indigenous people came from afar to obtain the mountain's rhyolite for stone tools. The surrounding country contains headwaters of the Penobscot, Piscataquis and Saint John rivers as well as the Kennebec.