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You were actually in central Maine.  There is way more wilderness in northern Maine.  The area you were in gets "busy" in the summer with all the white water rafters and people (from out of state) who own camps.  At your turn around spot, Attean Rest Area, you were within 75 miles of a Walmart.  If you want remote Maine, go to the Allagash Wilderness. That would be northern Maine.

I'm a local Mainer. Your video is interesting but inaccurate, when you are in Solon you're not in northern Maine. You still have a couple of hundred miles to go.

it might make it boring for most ppl but i think maine's lack of development is what make's it awesome

Keep driving north if you want to see northern maine

Potato farms are agriculture, My uncle owns and operates a 2500-acre potato farm third generation ... at the top of Maine...also Maine is the absolute king of blueberry production.

The most interesting part of Maine is the North Woods area. Your vehicle would not be adequate but deep North Woods Maine is like being on the moon.  Dirt roads everywhere, they are private but you are welcome to drive on them. Compared to that this was mostly filmed in a city lol.

Your really in west central Maine

Forestry is agriculture. The woods are routinely logged, then allowed decades of regrowing. That’s sustainably

I have an off grid camp (that's what a cabin is called in Maine) in T1R8. No road, hike in, water from a spring, 1000 feet on a huge lake. It's not everyone's cup of tea, thank goodness. :)

1. The eastern half of northern Maine has some population centers:  Houlton, and the agricultural consortium of Presque Isle, Caribou and Fort Fairfield in the Aroostook County River Valley.
2. At the extreme north are several communities that straddle the Saint John River between the U.S. and Canada with Fort Kent on the U.S. side.
3. The 19th century Aroostook County conflict resulted in a very clever commercial treaty:
A. The Saint John River became the border between the two countries, as Canada retained their much needed access to the Atlantic Ocean.
B. The Aroostook River allowed the U.S.'s cut trees from the massive forests of northwest Maine to flow into the Saint John River just beyond the border east of Fort Fairfield.
C. This voluminous number of large logs provided the wood necessary for the construction of the Royal Navy's ships that propelled the British into becoming "the empire upon which the sun never sets."

You all made it 2/3rds the way up the state. My family is from Allagash way up at the top. 7 hours north of Kittery Maine

How do I explain to them that they were in central Maine?

If you want a real Maine north woods driving experience, I'd suggest taking route 11 from Sherman to Fort Kent and then taking route 161 from Fort Kent to Caribou.   Just make sure to top off your gas tank before leaving Sherman and  again in Fort Kent.

Thanks for visiting some areas most people don't, and bringing it to your channel.  I live in a township in Northern Maine myself, but closer to the eastern border of Canada.  Maine has been divided for generations.  The southern area on the coast from say Waterville or Augusta south to Kittery has largely been a "bedroom" community for the the greater Boston area.  Specifically in it's social and lifestyle makeup.  everything east of Bangor on the coast is called "DownEast" and is the old world fishing community that has provided for their families for centuries.  Everything North of Millinocket is called "The County" because it is largely made from one county called "Aroostook".  This whole region is Lumber and Potato. so Agriculture in the north and Fishing in the south.  Both living hard lives.
the coastal land of Maine has been owned by wealthy families dating back before were a country.  However, as a result of the revolutionary war a large swath of the eastern coast from the Penobscot bay to Canada was abandoned by British loyalists that fled to Canada after the war.  a lot of this land was given to settlers and war veterans.  So ultimately this leaves the coast of Maine being owned by a combination of the wealthy and the poor being divided by the Penobscot river.  Of course it is not so simple these days but you can still see how society has built itself under these two dynamics over the last 250+ years..  Sorry so long.  But I appreciate you both.. and ty.

20:15 You didn't get anywhere NEAR northern Maine. Rt 11 to Ft Kent will take you there. You missed half the state.

A friend of mine is from Fort Kent.  He refers to Massachusetts as the "deep South".

My mom’s family lived in Passadumkeag.  When my elementary school in Massachusetts, where Mom had gone to work,  asked where our parents were born, I was ready.  I had been drilled on that word for some time.  Always been a good speller…. Excellent content…thanks.

You guys are in central Maine! My family is from a very small town in what is actually northern Maine, St. Francis. Its something else up there!!

You didn't go to NE Main, in the area around Presque Ilse.

That is relatively built up and is the hub of the main potato industry.

So, I agree that the soil conditions in the rest of Maine make larger scale farming non-economic, but the distance from larger cities like Boston and New York isn't an issue for the potato farmers.

BTW, I recall seeing a video that explained why the New England forests are larger today, than in the colonial times.

Back then, most of the land was cleared for farming.

However, as you describe for Maine, the soil wasn't great due to the glaciers in the last ice age.

When the Erie Canal opened, the cost to ship food from the Midwest plummeted, and the economics for many of the farms in New England simply didn't make sense. So, farms were abandoned and the forest returned.