BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 9, 2021
Baxter State Park is a vast and mountainous place, with numerous peaks that offer breaktaking views. My most recent selection, Doubletop Mountain, was partially due to the nearness of our camping location: Nesowadnehunk Field. We started our hike from Nesowadnehunk Field. The other option is to start from Kidney Pond, on the other side of the mountain. In between the two trailheads, an 8-mile trail travels up and over the mountain, hitting both peaks. Along the way I came across a plaque to Keppele Hall, whose ashes were scattered from the top of the mountain by his wife at sunset in August of 1926. “Love only is eternal,” the plaque reads. As I looked out over Baxter State Park, I couldn’t think of a more beautiful final resting place.