Camp Phoenix (Maine)

Camp Phoenix is a sixteen-acre plot of land located along the western edge of Baxter State Park in Northeast Piscataquis, Maine.

Fifty-four year-old Albert McLain and his thirty-year-old son Will built a trapper's cabin near the outlet of Nesowadnehunk (Sourdnahunk) lake in 1895.

[1] A year later they abandoned that and built a "sporting camp"—a building with a kitchen and dining room on the ground floor and lodgings on the second—on the east shore of the lake about a mile north of the outlet.

Charles Daisey bought McLain's building from him sometime between 1900 and 1904 and built eight cabins close to the lake shore using logs laid horizontally, probably between 1910 and 1920.

Charles himself was forward-thinking enough to buy an REO Speedwagon (the earliest form of pickup truck) in the year the road was built, in order to pick up supplies from town but motorized vehicles were forbidden to guests, including boats.

However, the motorized equipment necessary for the construction were too tall and wide to legally travel the roads passing through Baxster State Park, thwarting the plan before it started.

The sign at the entrance of Camp Phoenix