Hours/Season Mount Blue State Park is open year-round. Park hours are 9:00 a.m. to sunset unless otherwise posted at the gate. Earlier openings vary with the season; call ahead for these and campground hours. Fee collected year-round at entry booth by staff or self-service station.

Camping
Advanced reservations are recommended for the campground. Contact the State Park Reservations Office: 800-332-1501 in Maine; 207-624-9950 from outside Maine; or make your own reservations online at www.campwithme.com. NOTE: - No Camping is allowed on Tumbledown Public Land.

Mt Blue State Park offers stellar hiking, trail riding, biking, swimming and picnicking in the Western Mountains. Trail enthusiasts, anglers, and campers enjoy this region through the warm-weather months, followed by snowmobilers, cross-country skiers, snowshoers, and ice-skaters in winter. A heated yurt is located next to the the ice rink. View Mt. Blue's condition report or call for the latest conditions.

The Park and adjoining Tumbledown Public Land offer a prime, four-season destination with abundant outdoor recreation opportunities in Maine's Western Mountains just a few hours from several major cities.

Mt. Blue State Park is Maine's largest state park, encompassing approximately 8,000 acres in two sections separated by Webb Lake. A campground in the Webb Beach section has 136 wooded sites a short walk from a sandy beach and picnic area. Visitors can swim, launch and rent boats, and walk on trails near the lake. During summer months, park staff routinely offer canoe trips, walks, and nature programs. A Nature Center features hands-on exhibits and displays.

Across the lake from the Webb Beach section is the centerpiece of the Park, 3,187-foot Mt. Blue, a popular day-hike. Visitors also enjoy walks and picnics on Center Hill (see Trails section). Mountain bikers, equestrians, and ATV riders can experience 25 miles of challenging, multi-use trails. In winter, the park's extensive trail system supports snowmobiling, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing. Families come to sled at Center Hill and skate on an outdoor ice rink at park headquarters.

Tumbledown Public Land
Adjoining Mt. Blue State Park is more than 10,000 acres of State-owned Public Land and State-held easements encompassing the Tumbledown Mountain Range. Tumbledown Mountain, with an alpine pond near the summit, is the most popular hike, but surrounding lands offer many other attractions. NOTE that No Camping is allowed on Tumbledown Public Land. Camping is available at Mt. Blue State Park.

Partners and Supporters
From 1999 through 2002, the Maine Department of Conservation worked closely with the Tumbledown Conservation Alliance to expand key sections of Mount Blue State Park, protect critical buffer lands, and conserve significant portions of the Tumbledown Range. Thanks to the hard work of these partners, the State was able to protect approximately 30,000 acres.

Land for Maine's Future This property was acquired in part with funds from the Land for Maine?s Future program. For more information about the LMF program and the places it has helped to protect, please visit the LMF webpage. The Land and Water Conservation Fund contributed to this State Park.

History
Between 18,000 and 14,000 years ago, ice sheets overspread the region scoring exposed rocks and scouring out valleys like the one where Webb Lake lies. Take a geological tour of Tumbledown Mountain.

Indigenous people later used this area for seasonal hunting and trapping, making more permanent settlements where food could be found more consistently on larger lakes and rivers and along the coast. The area's first farm was established in 1798 and, within 30 years, much of the virgin forest on lower slopes had been cleared. By the early 1900s many area farms had been abandoned, but visitors can still find stonewalls and cellar holes from this era.

During the Great Depression in the 1930s, the federal government purchased 51 parcels of marginal farmland under the U.S. Resettlement Administration Land Utilization Project. The Federal Works Progress Administration hired workers and began to build the infrastructure of roads and buildings that what would become Mt. Blue State Park. The U.S. Department of Agriculture transferred the property to the State in 1955, and subsequent acquisitions expanded the park to its current size of 8,000 acres.