Cabin Country
Unfazed by the passage of time, West Branch Pond Camps harks back to a simpler time in Maine's North Woods.
By Andrew Vietze, Photography by Sara Gray
Eric Stirling says that first-timers to his sporting camp often share the same reaction. They'll drive down the long dirt road from the tiny North Woods outpost of Kokadjo to the shore of First West Branch Pond. They'll park in the lot behind the eight log cabins, their porches aimed at the narrow pond and White Cap Mountain, a famous Appalachian Trail peak, rising 3,800 feet behind it. They'll take in the unbroken woods all around, see wood smoke puffing from the chimney of one of the camps, maybe notice a moose roaming along the water's edge.
