Moosehead Lake Scenic Byway
Moosehead Lake Scenic Byway is a State Scenic Byway in Maine. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Moosehead Lake Scenic Byway with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
The Moosehead Lake Scenic Byway, formerly the Seboomook Scenic Byway, is a Maine state byway beside Moosehead Lake between Greenville and Jackman. MaineDOT's byway map data describes it in two parts, State Route 15 from the Indian Hill rest area near Greenville to the US 201 junction in Jackman, designated in 2007, and a 2011 extension that leaves downtown Greenville on Lily Bay Road and heads north to the village of Kokadjo. MaineDOT and the National Scenic Byway Foundation both give its length as 59 miles. Greenville sits at the foot of Moosehead Lake, which spreads over more than 75,000 acres. It is Maine's biggest lake and the largest one wholly within New England, second in the region only to Lake Champlain. From Greenville, Route 15, with Route 6 sharing it as far as Jackman, runs north beside the lake to Rockwood, a village on its western shore, and then turns west for Jackman. At Rockwood a seasonal water shuttle leaves the public dock for Mount Kineo, whose cliffs climb about 700 feet straight out of the lake; the state park there has no road access. Between Rockwood and Jackman the road crosses the Moose River Valley. The Moose River, the lake's main inlet, flows east from Jackman through Long Pond into Brassua Lake. MaineDOT's list of what the byway offers takes in boating, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, camping, hiking, foliage, skiing, snowmobiling and wildlife, along with views of lakes, ponds, rivers and mountains. Seboomook itself lies off the byway. The state's Seboomook public lands, 41,436 acres of hills and forest around Seboomook and Canada Falls lakes, are managed for recreation, wildlife and timber. The Bureau of Parks and Lands sends visitors there up the 20-mile Road north of Rockwood, which logging trucks also use, and into the North Maine Woods system, where visitors pass a checkpoint and pay a day-use or camping fee. The drive mapped here follows the Route 15 section from Jackman to downtown Greenville; it does not include the Lily Bay Road extension to Kokadjo.
- Formerly the Seboomook Scenic Byway
- Route 15, Greenville to Jackman
- Lily Bay Road extension to Kokadjo
- Moosehead Lake, Maine's largest lake
- Mount Kineo, by seasonal shuttle from Rockwood
- Moose River Valley
- Boating, fishing, skiing & snowmobiling
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The drive our planner maps: 48 miles, about 1 hr 15 min behind the wheel.
Where to Stay along Moosehead Lake Scenic Byway
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What is a State Scenic Byway?
State Scenic Byways are roads a state has formally recognized for their scenic, natural, historic or cultural value — each state's own curated collection of drives worth taking slowly.