Range Ponds State Park

Range Ponds State Park
Maine State Park
Country	United States
State	Maine
County	Androscoggin
Town	Poland

Elevation	308 ft (94 m) ^[1]
Coordinates	44°02′15″N 70°20′39″W / 44.03750°N 70.34417°W / 44.03750; -70.34417Coordinates: 44°02′15″N 70°20′39″W / 44.03750°N 70.34417°W / 44.03750; -70.34417 ^[1]

Area	740 acres (299 ha) ^[2]

Established	Unspecified
Management	Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry

Location in Maine
Website: Range Ponds State Park

Range Ponds State Park is a state park in Poland, Maine, in Androscoggin County.^[3] The state park occupies the northern end of 290-acre (120 ha) Lower Range Pond.^[4] The park offers a sandy beach with lifeguard-supervised swimming, kayaking, limited motorized boating, hiking trails, and fishing. Mountain biking trails, built with the help of local volunteers, provide several intermediate-level, single-track loops off a central double-track trail that winds through mature pine and hardwood forests.^[5]

Range Ponds

Upper Range Pond
Location	Poland, Maine
Coordinates	44°00′N 70°24′W / 44.000°N 70.400°W / 44.000; -70.400^[6]

Max. length	1.6 mi (2.6 km)^[7]
Surface area	357 acres (144 ha)^[8]
Max. depth	38 feet (12 m)^[9]
Water volume	7,067 acre·ft (8,717,000 m³)^[8]
Surface elevation	305 ft (93 m)^[6]

Middle Range Pond
Location	Poland, Maine
Coordinates	44°02′N 70°23′W / 44.033°N 70.383°W / 44.033; -70.383^[10]

Max. length	1.8 mi (2.9 km)^[7]
Surface area	382 acres (155 ha)^[8]
Max. depth	66 feet (20 m)^[11]
Water volume	11,486 acre·ft (14,168,000 m³)^[8]
Surface elevation	305 ft (93 m)^[10]

Lower Range Pond
Location	Poland, Maine
Coordinates	44°03′N 70°22′W / 44.050°N 70.367°W / 44.050; -70.367^[12]

Max. length	2.6 mi (4.2 km)^[7]
Surface area	270 acres (110 ha)^[8]
Max. depth	46 feet (14 m)^[4]
Water volume	3,918 acre·ft (4,833,000 m³)^[8]
Surface elevation	305 ft (93 m)^[12]

The three Range Ponds are at the same elevation and connected by narrow necks where bridges carry roads over the pond. Flow sequence is from the upper pond through the middle pond to the lower pond which overflows through Range Brook to the Little Androscoggin River in Mechanic Falls 3 miles (4.8 km) to the north.^[7] The ponds have native populations of chain pickerel, white perch, and smallmouth bass, and have been stocked with brown trout and largemouth bass. These species of angling interest prey on native rainbow smelt and stocked alewife. Stocking with rainbow trout and land-locked Atlantic salmon has been discontinued.^[11]

Upper Range Pond

Upper Range Pond is the shallowest of the three ponds.^[9] It is the southernmost pond, and the north end connects to the middle pond.^[7]

Middle Range Pond

Middle Range Pond extends from the upper pond at its southern end to the lower pond at its northern end. Maine State Route 26 bridges the narrows where the middle pond connects to the lower pond.^[7] Middle pond is the largest and deepest of the three, and supports some lake trout. There is no spawning or nursery habitat for brook trout, but the species is regularly stocked for angling. Black crappie were illegally introduced to the middle pond in the early 21st century.^[11]

Lower Range Pond

Lower Range Pond is the smallest, but longest, of the three; and forms the top of a "T" with the middle and lower ponds. The north end of the middle pond connects to a short bay on the southwest side of the lower pond. The State Park is on the northeast shore and southeast end of the lower pond, while the northwest end of the lower pond overflows as Range Brook.^[7]

References

1 2 "Range Ponds State Park". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
↑ "Outdoors in Maine: State Parks, Public Lands, and Historic Sites" (PDF). Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
↑ "Range Ponds State Park". Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. Retrieved August 7, 2014.
1 2 "Lower Range Pond" (PDF). Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Retrieved August 7, 2014.
↑ "Range Ponds State Park - Mountain Bike Trails". Maine Trail Finder. Center for Community GIS. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Upper Range Pond
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The Maine Atlas and Gazetteer (Thirteenth ed.). Freeport, Maine: DeLorme Mapping Company. 1988. pp. 5&11. ISBN 0-89933-035-5.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Maine Depts. of Environmental Protection and Inland Fisheries & Wildlife (2005-08-04). "Maine Lakes: Morphometry and Geographic Information". Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research, The University of Maine. Retrieved 2008-07-31.
1 2 "Upper Range Pond" (PDF). Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. State of Maine. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Middle Range Pond
1 2 3 "Middle Range Pond" (PDF). Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. State of Maine. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lower Range Pond

External links

Range Ponds State Park Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry

Protected areas of Maine

Federal

National Parks and Historic Sites	Acadia National Park Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument Saint Croix Island International Historic Site

National Wildlife Refuges	Aroostook Carlton Pond Waterfowl Production Area Cross Island Franklin Island Moosehorn Petit Manan Pond Island Rachel Carson Seal Island Sunkhaze Meadows

National Forests	White Mountain

National Trails	Appalachian Trail

National Estuarine Research Reserves	Wells

State

State Parks	Allagash Wilderness Waterway Aroostook Baxter Birch Point Bradbury Mountain Camden Hills Cobscook Bay Crescent Beach Damariscotta Lake Ferry Beach Fort Point Grafton Notch Holbrook Island Sanctuary Lake St. George Lamoine Lilly Bay Moose Point Mount Blue Peacock Beach Peaks-Kenny Penobscot River Corridor Popham Beach Quoddy Head Range Ponds Rangeley Lake Reid Roque Bluffs Shackford Head Sebago Lake Swans Falls Campground Swan Lake Two Lights Vaughan Woods Warren Island Wolfe's Neck Woods

State Historic Sites	Bible Point Colburn House Colonial Pemaquid Eagle Island Fort Baldwin Fort Edgecomb Fort Halifax Fort Kent Fort Knox Fort McClary Fort O'Brien John Paul Jones Katahdin Iron Works Mayall Mills Whaleback Shell Midden

State Forests	Durham State Forest

Maine Department of Conservation (web)

Androscoggin River watershed

Tributaries	Alder River Bear River Cathance River Chickwolnepy Stream Clear Stream Concord River Cupsuptic River Dead Cambridge River Dead Diamond River Dead River (ME) Dead River (NH) Dead River (Sabattus) East Branch Cupsuptic River East Branch Dead Diamond River East Branch Nezinscot River East Branch Pleasant River East Branch Swift River Ellis River First East Branch Magalloway River Kennebago River Little Androscoggin River Little Dead Diamond River Little East Branch Cupsuptic River Little Magalloway River Little River Magalloway River Middle Branch Dead Diamond River Middle Branch Little Magalloway River Mollidgewock Brook Moose Brook Moose River Muddy River Nezinscot River Peabody River Pleasant River Rangeley River Rapid River Rattle River Sabattus River Sanborn River Second East Branch Magalloway River South Branch Little Dead Diamond River South Branch Sunday River Sunday River Swift Cambridge River Swift Diamond River Swift River Third East Branch Magalloway River Webb River West Branch Dead Diamond River West Branch Ellis River West Branch Little Dead Diamond River West Branch Little Magalloway River West Branch Magalloway River West Branch Nezinscot River West Branch Peabody River West Branch Pleasant River West Branch Swift River Wild River

Lakes	Akers Pond Androscoggin Lake Lake Auburn Aziscohos Lake Echo Lake Greenough Pond Kennebago Lake Mooselookmeguntic Lake Parker Pond Parmachenee Lake Pontook Reservoir Range Ponds Rangeley Lake Richardson Lakes Sabattus Pond Thompson Lake Tripp Pond Success Pond Umbagog Lake Webb Lake

Towns	Albany Andover Auburn Berlin Bethel Bowdoin Brunswick Buckfield Byron Cambridge Canton Carthage Chesterville Dixfield Dummer Durham Errol Fayette Gilead Gorham Greene Greenwood Hanover Hartford Hebron Jay Leeds Lewiston Lisbon Livermore Livermore Falls Mechanic Falls Mexico Minot Monmouth Mount Vernon Newry Norway Otisfield Oxford Paris Peru Pittsburg Poland Randolph Rangeley Readfield Roxbury Rumford Sabattus Shelburne Stewartstown Sumner Topsham Turner Upton Vienna Wales Wayne Weld Wentworth's Location West Paris Woodstock

Landmarks	Brown Company Maine Central Railroad Old Speck Mountain Range Ponds State Park Rumford Mill St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad White Mountains

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