Casey's Spencer Bay Camps - PERMANENTLY CLOSED

A bit off the normal path. The roads to sites are crazy, it would help if you had a truck or SUV. Some parts only one car fits on the road, and if someone is coming one or the other needs to pull over. So don't drive like a spaz, which you most likely won't anyway, because there are some HUGE potholes. At one point the entire road was a giant puddle 2 feet deep. I was like what are we doing here. But then there's people pulling campers like nothing; and I'm like ok guess we keep going! We stayed here in 2017. I don't think the description is right on the main screen, as there are not cabins. When I look at the GPS Map it looks almost right. The marker should be a tiny bit further down the road where it ends by the water with 45.714573 -69.558222 look at Google Maps satellite view.

After what felt like eons of white knuckle driving on logging roads, we made it. Every site has a nice view of the mountains in the background over a pretty large waterfront. Only thing I did not like, was people with generators on at night. Hello I am in a tent. I don't want to hear lawnmower sounds all damn night. Bring some ear plugs and a sleeping mask to make that suck less. Bathroom was clean. Have TP and hand sanitizer.

We hiked one of the nearby mountains, Mt Kineo. Super awesome day hike. And there is a really nice fire tower on top you can go up. One of the ones where the stairs are flights zigzagging up, not the ladder ones. Thank God lol. Old forest, and lots of cool giant rocks. Really a great connect with nature hike.

We saw, I kid you not, 12 moose, in the 8 days we were there. It was so cool. Another reason not to drive crazy, one of them practically came barreling out of the woods into the side of our SUV. it was like 2 feet away from crashing into my door. The best was when we were kayaking. There is a bridge where locals fish from all the time. We put our boats in at the camp site on the side of the river not far from the bridge. Don't go under the bridge, go the other way. Paddle slow, take your time. It curves back and forth. Lots of warblers were there; and ducks and loons. We kept going until it looked like going further wasn't going to happen and headed back. Then not even five minutes from where we would get getting out, there was the biggest moose I have ever seen. A young male. Just eating plants out of the water, and on the boggy shore. We stayed to the far side of the area like 20 minutes taking pictures and not making any noise or moving much at all. National Geographic feelings going through my mind. It was getting dark, and he never went away, but we needed to leave so we inched slowly down the water. I turned around at the curve, and he was finally moving on going about his moose business. Will never forget that for sure. There is also a camp site at this area, which I have a separate review for called Lazy Tom Bog Primitive Camping.

Roads are all gravel out here, seems to be inactive logging, we didn't see any of the log trucks.

This site has a lot of RV sized spots and goes pretty far back. We had a tent, and picked the site closest to the water on the right at the end so no one else was in front of us. It was down the main row the host is on. While sites all have tables, there are not really trees around to put a tarp over it for rain, As you can see in my photos, we rigged up a tarp cover, from wood we searched for along the road and tied it up with rope to the picnic table.

It rained a lot on this trip, so it was essential to rig the tarp for cooking cover, and a place to sit other than the tent. Because of the rain, we drove around the logging roads a lot to explore. We actually drove all the way out to Mt Katahdin, it took a few hours, but it was raining so a good time waster.

Around the campsite, the waterfront is really nice. Rocky shores. Good Kayaking. The water can be choppy when the weather is not great but nothing we couldn't handle. We took our kayaks on a few boggy areas off the sides of the road while we explored driving around too. Great relaxing trip (other than the rain).