Trails, docks, farms, markets.

Four trails loop the Kineo peninsula, adding up to just over six miles — the Indian Trail climbs steep and direct to the old fire tower in under a mile, the Carriage Trail runs flat along the shoreline for a longer, easier walk. Getting there requires the ferry from Rockwood; there's no road to Kineo at all. Bring water and don't miss the last boat back, which stops running by early evening.

Nine miles north of Greenville on the east shore, 925 acres with the only real sand swimming beach convenient to town, two boat ramps, and a two-mile shoreline walking trail through spruce and birch. Ninety campsites split between two loops fill fast on July weekends — book ahead rather than showing up. The cross-country ski trails pick up the same footprint once the campground closes for the season.

Former ski hill five miles north of Greenville, now more hiking trail than resort — the summit trail gains steadily through hardwood before a steep final push over open ledge to a view that takes in most of the lake and Kineo below. The old fire warden's cabin ruins mark the halfway point. North Road turns to dirt for the last stretch to the trailhead; a low car manages it fine in summer.

A 1963 B-52 crash scattered wreckage across the southern slope of Elephant Mountain — the tail section and engine parts are still there, a living memorial rather than a museum piece, and the walk in from the parking area is under half a mile. The real obstacle is the seven miles of gravel road getting to the trailhead; high clearance helps. Seven of the nine crew died; two survived, including a navigator who lived through an ejection with a parachute that never opened.

Called the Grand Canyon of Maine for the three-mile slate gorge the Pleasant River cuts through — Screw Auger, Buttermilk, and Billings Falls string along an eight-mile rim loop that takes most of a day. It's over an hour from Greenville through Katahdin Iron Works, with a North Maine Woods checkpoint fee on the way in, so this is a full excursion, not an afternoon add-on. Sturdy boots; the footing along the rim is genuinely rough.

Monson, twenty minutes south, is the last town before Appalachian Trail thru-hikers disappear into the Hundred-Mile Wilderness toward Katahdin — the longest roadless stretch on the entire trail. Watching a hiker restock a pack at the general store in July is its own kind of local color. Not a day hike from Moosehead itself, but worth the detour to understand what's actually out past the lake's southern edge.

Full-service marina six miles north of Greenville with a launch ramp, seasonal and transient slips, ethanol-free gas, and an on-site technician for the boat that won't start. This is the marina people actually use for a season-long slip rather than a day launch — book ahead for summer dock space, since it fills up well before Memorial Day.

State-owned concrete ramp directly across from Mount Kineo, generous parking, and the dock where the seasonal ferry to Kineo departs roughly hourly in July and August. This is the only way to reach Kineo without a private boat — no road connects to the peninsula at all. Confirm the last return crossing before heading up the trail; missing it means a long wait for the next one.

Hard ramp and a handful of free public slips at the East Cove landing downtown — the easiest put-in for a paddle around the near shore or a run up toward Beaver Cove. Parking is limited and goes fast on a July Saturday morning. This is a launch, not a marina; there's no fuel or repair service on site.

The full-service outfitter on Lily Bay Road — canoes, kayaks, paddleboards, and ATVs to rent, plus Registered Maine Guides running private moose safaris that reportedly log over a thousand sightings a year between them. This is the one-stop booking desk for a lake with no shortage of guide services but few this organized. Reserve a moose tour a few days out in July; the good guides fill up.

Seaplane operation running scenic flights and wilderness charters since 1945, the kind of longevity that means something in a business this dependent on weather and remote strips. Standard tours run over Kineo, the lake's northern arm, and the surrounding peaks. The lake also hosts the International Seaplane Fly-In every September, when the water in front of Greenville fills with floatplanes for a weekend — plan lodging months ahead if visiting for it.

Seaplane tours from a dock in town, with a shorter and cheaper Kineo loop alongside a longer run up toward Katahdin on a clear day. Seasonal, floats only from mid-May to mid-October, and every flight is weather-dependent — don't book a tight morning around a departure time in shoulder season. Two-person minimum on every tour.

Registered Maine Guides running canoe and van moose tours out of remote ponds rather than the roadside sightings everyone else settles for — mornings and evenings both, since that's when the moose actually feed. Group size is capped on purpose, which means booking a few days ahead in June rather than the morning of. The guides double as the area's whitewater rafting outfit come July.

An 800-foot rhyolite cliff rising straight out of the middle of the lake, visible from nearly every town on the shore and the single image most people associate with Moosehead. Native tribes quarried the rhyolite for tools centuries before Greenville existed. No road reaches it — the ferry from Rockwood is the only way in, which keeps Kineo from ever feeling like a roadside attraction despite how often it gets photographed.

A nine-hole course built in the 1880s, thought to be the second oldest in New England, sitting at the base of the cliff on land only reachable by the same ferry that carries hikers. Walking the course with the rhyolite face rising behind the greens is a stranger golf experience than the scorecard suggests. Cash only for the ferry fare; bring exact change rather than counting on a card reader at the dock.

The steamboat Katahdin, built in 1914 and the last wooden-hulled passenger vessel of its kind left in Maine, still runs narrated cruises out of Greenville from late June through mid-October. It spent decades after the Depression towing log booms — the last log drive on the lake ran until 1975 — before a nonprofit restored it in the 1990s. The adjoining museum covers that logging history in more depth than the cruise narration has time for.