Kayak camping, tides & launches: Maine Coast

Maine Coast: Coastal paddling with 290 campsites, 630 boat launches and 118 tide stations, plus slack-water times for 141 tidal current stations. See them on the map, check today's tides and wind, or, with a Coast Map Pass, download the whole region (66 MB) to your phone for trips without signal.

Open Maine on the mapTides at Rockland
290campsites
630boat launches
118tide stations
141current stations
66 MBoffline download

Campsites

From OpenStreetMap, coloured on the map by what you need before staying. 17 mention boat, canoe or kayak access (馃浂). Always confirm fees, permits and closures with the operator.

Fee or reservation (36)

Permit, protocol or private (5)

Free or backcountry (70)

Fees not recorded (check locally) (118)

Tide stations

Highs and lows for the next year, the 24-hour tide curve, wind and the marine forecast.

Tidal currents and slack water

Boat launches

Plus 385 unnamed launches on the map.

Marine forecast areas

Casco Bay 路 Coastal Waters from Cape Elizabeth, ME to Merrimack River, MA out 25 NM 路 Coastal Waters from Eastport, ME to Schoodic Point, ME out 25 NM 路 Coastal Waters from Port Clyde, ME to Cape Elizabeth, ME out 25 NM 路 Coastal Waters from Stonington, ME to Port Clyde, ME out 25 NM 路 Intra Coastal Waters from Schoodic Point, ME to Stonington, ME 路 Penobscot Bay

Download for GPS and other map apps

290 campsites and 629 boat launches as GPX (GPS units, Gaia GPS, OsmAnd) or KML (Google Earth, Google My Maps).

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