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Attractions near Chester

The nearest draw to Chester: Hundred-Mile Wilderness, 34 mi away

There is no place to visit inside Chester; there are 3 within 40 miles. The commonest are a park & preserve, a national monument and a garden. Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument draws about 34K visitors a year. For a full day, there is Moosehead Lake, 57 mi away.

Attractions nearby
7
within 60 miles
The big one
57 mi
Moosehead Lake
National park units
1
parks & monuments
Ski areas
1
Big Moose Mountain Ski Area
Lake · 57 mi west

Moosehead Lake

Lake in Maine, United States.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

Mapped around Chester

At the edge of the map sits Fay Hyland Botanical Plantation, 38 mi out.

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Orange: Chester. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Everything nearby

Place after place

All 7 on the list lie within 60 miles.

Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.

Parks and trails in Chester →

Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Moosehead Lake: Dennis Redfield, CC BY 2.0 · Baxter State Park: TJ aka Teej at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument: U.S. Department of the Interior, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Fay Hyland Botanical Plantation: Jalnet2, CC BY-SA 3.0

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