Maine State Parks

While staying at nearby LEEN's Lodge, visit several Maine State Parks right in Washington County that can offer fun for the whole family. These state parks are all nearby driving distance from our Maine property and we would be happy to give you detailed directions. Read more below.

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 Washington County, Maine State Parks include the following great spots:

1. Roque Bluffs State Park: Turn off Route 1 just west of Machias and drive six miles to the park which features a 900-yard-long white sandy beach. Here you can swim in the salt water or cross the road and swim in a fresh water pond. There are picnic tables, grills, bathhouses, toilets, and a children's playground. And views looking out to many islands.
2. Jasper Beach State Park is located eight and a half miles from Machias just past Buck's Harbor. Here the ocean's waves have built up a wall of a beach where you will be able to pick up some nice specimens of jasper. This is an opaque, usually red, brown, or yellow variety of quartz which has been highly polished by sea action or it may be dull as mud and you can polish it yourself. It makes nice jewelry or you can keep it in your pocket as the local fishermen do for a "feelin' stone".
3. Cobscook Bay, Maine State Park is located four miles north of Whiting on Route 1 in Edmunds Township. Here you have more than 800 acres of woods and fields bordering beautiful Cobscook Bay. The park offers fine hiking and some beachcombing. There is a boat launching ramp and picnic spots.
4. Gleason's Cove in Perry is a well-hidden local secret although it is a state-operated park. There are no signs to it, but there is a restaurant in Perry and across Route 1 is a road. Take it and drive about half a mile. Turn right at an old two-story brick building and drive down this dirt road three quarters of a mile and there it is- a park complete with great beachcombing, broad vistas of Passamaquoddy Bay and nearby Deer Island, N.B., fishing weirs and picnic sites. For boaters there is an excellent launching ramp. A fishing weir is a fish trap developed centuries ago by the Indians and copied by the white man to capture herring.