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Tadpole Raisin

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7. Well Aroostook County is about the size of Massachusetts

Reply to avebury (Reply #5)

Wed Jan 21, 2026, 08:43 PM

23 hrs ago

And has < than 70k people. If you eliminate the eastern part of the county - the towns along the last part of I95 and route 1, the huge western part is pretty remote.

It’s been a long, long time since I was up there (and only in the well traveled areas) but I probably wouldn’t consider driving in the areas he was talking about. That takes a special kind of hardiness, and a BIG truck, lol.

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