A brief explanation of the map below …
- The A-Frame driveway is shared by the Whetstone Pond boat-launch access off of Pond Road. The boat-launch access is clearly marked. There is also a mailbox across the road with the address on it. Go down the boat-launch access/driveway and the A-Frame is on the left.
- Although the map and the directions (if you use them) show the A-Frame as being on Barrows Falls Road, the official address is 192 Pond Road. If you are traveling on Pond Road past Piper Pond and toward Whetstone Pond, there is not really a “right-hand turn onto Barrows Falls Road” (as the directions might say). Pond Road merely makes a 90 degree bend to the right. There is no sign for Barrows Falls Road at the turn and the other intersecting roads are gravel roads. Pond Road eventually becomes Barrows Falls Road farther on past the A-Frame.
- If you use the map directions link and are traveling from the south, do not try to take Happy Corner Road even if the directions say to do so. Happy Corner Road is not really a road. It is an ATV trail. In this section of Maine, many gravel roads and ATV trails appear as regular roads on a map. You must go into the town of Abbot, go north on state route 6/15, and then turn left onto Pond Road where there will be signs for Piper Pond and Whetstone Pond.
- The map is currently pin-pointing the location as the property next door. Look for the boat-launch signs and the mailbox to get the correct driveway.