Owls Head is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States.

[2] A resort and fishing area, the community is home to the Knox County Regional Airport.

When Samuel de Champlain explored Owl's Head in 1605, the Abenaki Indians called it Bedabedec Point, meaning "Cape of the Winds."

[4] Owls Head was home to an electric trolley line that traveled to Crescent Beach.

It was started in 1902, and it ended in the years of 1917–1918, largely due in part to a deadly accident in 1914, in which a train left the tracks killing one woman instantly, and injuring several others.

[5] In August 1940 (around the 13th), the English composer Benjamin Britten completed his Diversions for piano (left hand) and orchestra, Op.

On August 22, he wrote from Owl's Head to Elizabeth Mayer: "We eventually made Pemaquid Point, but found the place most disappointing—not on the sea, & full of the most terrible Bostonian old ladies, that we left after one gloomy night.

It is too cold to bathe unfortunately—but there is plenty else to do...." Owls Head was a filming location for the 2001 movie In the Bedroom.

The highest point in Owls Head is Post Hill, 194 feet (59m) high.