Hiking in Maine: Sunkhaze wildlife refuge rises up to provide a peaceful, year-round adventure
Hiking in Maine: Sunkhaze wildlife refuge rises up to provide a peaceful, year-round adventure Eight miles of trails provide hikers, snowshoers and cross-country skiers year-round access at Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. By CAREY KISH Carey Kish photo A few miles east of the Penobscot River in the town of Milford is a great expanse of wild country, an interesting mix of bogs, wetlands, meadows and floodplain woodlands. The Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge encompasses this ecological melting pot of landscapes, some 11,500 acres in all, including one of the largest peatla...