BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 29, 2023
A 3,900-acre parcel in the Aroostook County town of Crystal is the largest and most expensive piece of land for sale in Maine at $3.4 million. The property has brooks, ponds, streams and views of Katahdin, which is about a 90-minute drive away. It has 25 miles of interior roads and gated entrances near several local public maintained roads. It also has grid power at a public road so it is possible to develop it. Potential buyers could include people looking to use it as an investment, such as a buyer from Germany who previously bought large areas of land in Maine. A property in Carroll Plantation on a failed 5,400-acre wind farm in northern Penobscot County, sold for $3.25 million and is the largest and most expensive piece of land in Maine sold so far this year. The Carroll plot includes the ridgeline of Bowers Mountain and much of the terrain of Getchell Mountain. The new owner is a Maine logger who plans to log it for timber.