Kineo
The Kineo Sanctuary is composed of 77 acres located on the Mount Kineo peninsula in Moosehead Lake, Kineo Township, Maine. The sanctuary serves to protect the vegetated talus slope below the 700-foot cliff of Mount Kineo, to provide sanctuary for its native plants and animals, and to ensure continued public access for compatible, low-impact recreational and educational use.
The sanctuary encompasses 2,000 feet of frontage on Moosehead Lake at the property's southwest edge and 800 feet on North Bay at the northeast. Over 4,000 feet of boundary, with carriage road access, abuts Mount Kineo State Park, which includes the 1,804-foot summit of Mount Kineo and the northern portion of the Kineo peninsula.
Prehistoric workshop sites can be found below the cliff and at lake level where the green-blue volcanic rhyolite was fashioned into stone tools found throughout New England and the Maritimes. Traces are also evident of more recent use of the property, associated with the different incarnations of the Mount Kineo House, first built in 1848 and now long gone.
Kineo Sanctuary map
Directions to Kineo Sanctuary (from the Southeast)
- Take I-95 exit 185 (Broadway)
- Turn left onto Route 15
- Follow Route 15 to Rockwood boat access
- Paddle north to Kineo peninsula
or
- Take I-95 exit 185 (Broadway)
- Turn left onto Route 15
- Follow Route 15 into Greenville
- Stay straight on Lily Bay Road (Route 15 will veer left)
- Follow Lily Bay Road through Kokadjo
- Turn right on Specer Bay Road