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AUGUSTA — The Allagash Wilderness Waterway will begin taking winter camping registrations at 8 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, at the Chamberlain Bridge ranger station. 
The campsites will be allotted on a first-come, first-served basis until the campground capacity is reached.
AWW Superintendent Matt LaRoche anticipates renting most of the 48 available campsites by noon on the first day of registration. To be sure of getting a site, the AWW superintendent suggests that campers arrive at Chamberlain Bridge before 8 a.m. on Dec. 10.
Part of the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s Bureau of Parks and Lands, the AWW is a 92-mile-long ribbon of lakes, lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams that wind through northern Maine’s vast commercial forests. The AWW will make a total of 48 campsites available at Chamberlain Bridge and Kellogg Brook. Campsites are available for a monthly rental fee of $75 for Maine residents and $100 for nonresidents $100.00, plus 9-percent meal and lodging tax. Eight sites are reserved in the parking lot for transient use at the regular camping fee of $6 per person per night for Maine residents and $12 for nonresidents. The water access campsites on the lakes are available for use in the winter as well as summer; the same fees apply to these sites.
“Winter camping in the Allagash provides anglers with extraordinary access to great winter ice fishing,” said Gov. Paul R. LePage. “Visitors traveling that far north are rewarded with a breathtaking outdoor experience and memories that will last a life-time. They also have the opportunity to catch trophy fish.”
The AWW provides public drinking water, vault toilets and snowplowing at the Chamberlain Bridge and Kellogg Brook winter campgrounds. A groomed snowmobile trail is marked from the parking lot to the south end of Chamberlain Lake and to Round Pond/Telos lakes.
For more information on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, go to www.maine.gov/allagash, call 207-695-3721, ext. 3, or 207-941-4014, Or contact Allagash Wilderness Waterway, P.O. Box 1107, Greenville, ME 04441.
