Rangeley, ME Summary

RANGELEY is only just in Maine, a little way east of New Hampshire and an even shorter distance south of the border with Québec. Furthermore, as the café-bar Doc Grant’s (tel 207/864-3449) on Main Street makes a great show of telling you, it’s equidistant (at 3107.5 miles) from the North Pole and the Equator. That doesn’t mean it’s on the main road to anywhere, although if you’re avoiding the coast altogether you can get here direct from the northern side of the White Mountains. It has always been a resort, served in 1900 by two train lines and several steamships (though now you have to get here on your own), with the main attraction then being the fishing in the spectacularly named Mooselookmeguntic Lake.