Caribou-Speckled Mountain Wilderness is an 11,236-acre protected area in Maine within the White Mountain National Forest, established in 1990 to preserve a rugged mountain landscape of northern hardwood forest, cliffs, slides, notches, and glacial potholes. Its highest point is Speckled Mountain at 2,906 feet, with nearby Mount Caribou reaching 2,840 feet. Streams from the wilderness feed tributaries of both the Saco and Androscoggin rivers. Mount Caribou’s name is tied to a local story recorded by the U.S. Forest Service that in 1854 two brothers shot the region’s last caribou there. The wilderness is valued for its undeveloped scenery and varied geology.

Gilead, Maine · USA