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Sargent Mountain

The second highest summit, and the one with no road.

strenuous · 5 mi Few people

Exposed in fog; follow the cairns.

Waldron Bates was blazing connector trails on these slopes in September 1897. The summit is broad and bare, with a small pond just below it, and it is exposed enough that fog turns the cairns into the only way home.

EraCottage era

Seasonyear round

Coordinates44.3433, -68.2735

Source of positionPK

Directions

Nearby tales Chasm Brook Bridge and the Bates Memorial Path0.7 mi Penobscot Mountain0.8 mi The Bubbles and Bubble Rock1 mi Deer Brook Bridge1 mi

Sources: ListsOfJohn Sargent Mountain; Acadia Memorials, Waldron Bates.