About Exploring Maine
There are over 35,000 square miles of land in Maine, and over 4,500 square miles of water. We have a national park – Acadia – and over 30 state parks you can explore. There are fields and forests, back roads and highways, and more places to boat, bike, hike, ski, sled, and swim than there is time to take them all in.
At ExploringMaine.com, our goal is to promote this amazing state, and encourage others to come to love everything it has to offer like we do. We think our state is amazing, unique, and worth exploring. So we offer articles and information ideas to help others along their way.
Meet Our Authors
Steve is the CEO – Chief Exploring Officer- at ExploringMaine.com. He is a native Mainer that grew up in the state, attended the University of Maine (computer science), and has lived and worked here most of his life.
Steph is a born and raised Mainer. She has shoveled snowbanks out of her driveway every winter, climbed granite-topped mountains in the spring, dipped her toes in the frigid Atlantic each summer, and relished many walks under the glorious fall foliage. She only eats lobster when friends from out of state come. So visitors to her home state are always welcome!
Gail was born in the frigid northern Maine and has been trying to get warm ever since. They can be found cuddling their two glorious Maine Coons and debating which of their countless flannels works as formal attire.
Deana Coddaire is a freelance copyeditor (writealready2017.wordpress.com) residing in Kennebunk, Maine, along with her husband, gardens, and books (half of which are the full published works of Stephen King and Neil Gaiman). Her publishing credits include “Just Do It,” a personal essay published in the Summer 2015 issue of the Avalon Literary Review, and “Coping Mechanism,” a personal essay published in the July/August 2016 issue of Portland Monthly magazine. She loves to spend time with family, write, travel, and write about travel.
Fiona is a freelance travel writer, passionate outdoorswoman, animal lover, and native Mainer. After spending many years living, working, and writing overseas in Southeast Asia and Turkey, she returned to her roots in Portland, ME in 2019. You’ll find her hiking the state’s many peaks, surfing up and down Maine’s beautiful coast, and indulging in Portland’s ever-evolving food and craft brewery scene.
Affectionately nicknamed “Pat, Pat, the River Rat,” she’s spent much of her life on and around rivers — and has written articles on every aspect of Maine rivers. Here in Maine for 30 years, Pat’s been a widely published travel/environmental/business writer, with hundreds of feature and cover articles appearing in dozens of magazines and newspapers – along with the gamut of business writing for companies and nonprofits around Maine and the U.S. An avid organic gardener, gourmet chef and explorer of hidden coves and mountain trails around New England and the world, she loves spending time with her son when he’s home from college. As a longtime community leader/volunteer for Maine charities, rotary, chambers, boards & committees, she loves to cook and farm for neighbors in need; (“The Singing Chef”) in Brunswick and Portland — transcending farmer’s market bounty into nutritious and memorable meals that just make people feel good.
Emily is a Maine girl who left the state for college (creative writing), and couldn’t wait to get back home. She loves ice fishing, red hot dogs, and Katahdin is her happy place.
We hope you find the content on our site useful, and share in our love of exploring Maine. And if you have an interesting idea about Maine we should cover, please share it.
