Bald Mountain

Bald Mountain is a 2443-foot knob that separates Rangeley and Mooselookmeguntic Lakes. There is an observation tower on top that provides a superb 360-degree view. The bottom two-thirds of the ascent passes through mature hardwood forest, with plenty of black-throated blue and black-throated green warblers, interspersed with blackburnian warblers, brown creepers, least flycatchers, many winter wrens, hairy, downy, and pileated woodpeckers, and yellow-bellied sapsuckers. After 45 minutes of upward hiking, the forest begins its transition to balsam and spruce. This also marks the transition from hermit to Swainson’s thrushes. As tree growth becomes stunted, magnolia and Nashville warblers and American redstarts forage readily. Blackpolls, dark-eyed juncos and yellow-bellied flycatchers are likely. The summit is thickly covered in spruce. Watch for boreal chickadees and Canada jays. White-winged and red c.Crossbills are possible.

Directions: The trailhead is on Bald Hill Road less than a mile from the end of Route 4 in Oquossoc.