PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • April 15, 2020
Baxter State Park will close to camping and automobile traffic until further notice in response to the coronavirus outbreak, Baxter State Park Director Eben Sypitkowski wrote in a letter posted on the park’s website. The park has a target date of July 1 to reopen, he said. The 200,000-acre wilderness park will close other than for walk-in hiking below treeline, Sypitkowski said.