About Androscoggin County, ME

Lost Valley Ski Resort

Lost Valley is a family ski haven, with 15 trails and a snowboard terrain park. Most of Lost Valley's trails are rated beginner and intermediate, with some challenges for more advanced skiers. Lost Valley is also a great setting for mountain biking. Located on a wooded 300-acre site, Lost Valley has combined a series of tote roads and single track trails to form a unique trail system. The wooded terrain is varied with rolling hills, streams and bridges. Lost Valley's trails are maintained by an experienced staff. Plentiful and densely-wooded space is also perfect for paintball, one of today's most popular adventure sports. Lost Valley also rents its banquet facilities and caters events from small to large.

For more information about Lost Valley call 207-784-1561, or visit their website at http://www.lostvalleyski.com/.

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Thorncrag Bird Sanctuary

Thorncrag Bird Sanctuary in Lewiston, a 312-acre wildlife preserve, has been the primary focus of The Stanton Bird Club for more than 80 years. At an elevation of 510 feet, the highest point in the city, this sanctuary sits as a green capstone, a forested oasis surrounded on three sides by urban and suburban development. The "Crag", belonging to the family Thorne in the 1800's, is a familiar and well-loved landmark in Lewiston. The human use of this land over the decades has been as varied as the habitats and wildlife it has always protected. Uses have included: recreation and scientific research by Bates College, a sheep and dairy farm, tuberculosis sanitorium, homestead for the reclusive Elder Thorne, and facility for Highland Spring Bottled Water Company.

Thorncrag is now used as a demonstration and workshop site for groups such as University of Maine wildlife biologists, college and high school ecology classes, Boy and Girl Scout troops, professional botanical societies, garden clubs, arborists, and environmental educators.

Passive recreation at Thorncrag: Bird-watching, picnicking, hiking, walking, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, sledding, skating, nature photography. Promotion of these activities is offered through our widely distributed brochure (at the Chamber of Commerce and at the DOT information facility in Kittery); in entries in the AAA guidebooks and the Delorme Atlas and Gazetteer; in environmental education publications and newsletters; and in the IF &W publication "On Water, On Wings, In the Woods."

Directions: FROM I-495 - MAINE TURNPIKE, NORTH & SOUTH

Take exit 13 in Lewiston and head west on Rte. 196 (Lisbon Street). Turn right onto East Avenue. (The Promenade Mall will be on your left, Martel School will be on your right). Take East Avenue to the intersection of Sabattus Street (Rte. 126).You will see Rite Aid on the opposite left corner. Turn right onto Sabattus Street and continue until you see Hannaford's Supermarket on the left. Turn left onto Highland Spring Road at the stone pillar with a Thorncrag sign. The Sanctuary is at the end of Highland Spring Road. You can park on the shoulder.

For more information visit: http://www.stantonbirdclub.org/

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Creative Businesses in the Lewiston Auburn Maine Area

Maybe it is the water, or maybe it is the clean air, but something spurs on the success of creative and unique businesses here in the Lewiston - Auburn area of Central Maine. Here is just a sample of some of the thriving businesses in our area!

Harriman Associates Architects & Engineers - 1 Auburn Business Park, Auburn (Designers of community projects such as the new Auburn Hall and Bates College's Carnegie Science Building)

Platz Associates - Great Falls Plaza, Auburn (Designers of the Bates Mill redevelopment, the Business Service Center, and several of the area's beautiful parking garages)

In-Depth Archaeology - 382 College Street, Lewiston (One of the regions few archaeologists)

Ware Street Inn - 52 Ware Street, Lewiston/Munroe Inn, 123 Pleasant Street, Auburn (If you've tasted Ware Street owner Jan Barrett's breakfasts or Munroe co-owner Connie Zimmerman's full-course dinners, you'll be a true believer in culinary art)

McIntosh & Tuttle Cabinetmakers - 41 Chestnut Street, Lewiston (Cabinetry as functional art)

Fishbones - Bates Mill Complex, Lewiston (Seafood as art)

Dore's Café - 20 Union Street, Auburn (Try a pastry and hear the muses sing)

Massage therapists - ( I'm not selecting any single one, but consider the magic fingers that work out the week's tension and stress)

Plantasia Florals - 144 Main Street, Auburn (Granted, God deserves credit too, but spouses everywhere are indebted to these artists who masterfully blend color and fragrance to cast a spell or break a curse on many a relationship)

Creative Forensic Services - 11 Elmwood Road, Auburn (Arlo West's creative detective work is used for audio recovery for crime cases)

Encompass Marketing & Design - 162 Main Street, Auburn (Love them or hate them, ad agencies make us pay attention to people, places, and things; this Auburn firm is really good at it)

Belle Decorating - 3 Bosse Street, Lewiston (Talk about creative: Michelle Davis will redesign a living room or family room by rearranging your home's existing furniture and accessories)

Landscaping companies - (I can't vouch for any particular one, but landscaping is nothing short of using the earth to convey a sense of space)

It's Magic - 117 Gamage Avenue, Auburn (Bob Nixon does magic at public events and private parties - hard to argue magic isn't art)

Katahdin Music Works - (John Stass offers custom-made music stands with some of the most elegant wood I've ever seen)

The Maine Bucket Company - Fireslate Place, Lewiston (Big buckets, small buckets, popcorn pails, interlocking display stands - these guys have built quite a business on functional wood)

New England School of Metalwork - 22 Albiston Way, Auburn (A subsidiary of MaineOxy, they teach welders how to be master blacksmiths)

Penmor Lithographers, 8 Lexington Street - Lewiston (A quality printer can make a good brochure a stunning one, and these folks make brochures come to life)

Maine Proofreading Services - 55 Lisbon Street, Lewiston (When you read a good book, you may heap praise on the author, but it's often the proofreader that helps make that paragraph clear or memorable)

Coastal T-shirts - 194 Turner Street, Auburn; Action Printing, 41 Chestnut Street, Lewiston (It's art on your back)

Neokraft Sign Co. - 686 Main Street, Lewiston (They make logos and artwork come to life on walls, street corners, and signposts)

For more information on this great part of Central Maine

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Lewiston and Auburn Maine have much to offer, but

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