Desert of Maine

  Saturday, September 26, 2020

The Desert of Maine is a 40-acre (160,000 m 2) tract of exposed glacially deposited sand surrounded by a pine forest near the town of Freeport, Maine, in the United States. The Desert of Maine is not a true desert, as it receives an abundance of precipitation, and the surrounding vegetation is being allowed to encroach on the barren dunes.

the Desert of Maine sticks out as an arid anomaly. The Desert was once the Tuttle Farm. Then the sandstorms arrived. The Desert began as a giant prehistoric sand pile, blown here by Maine's north winds after the last Ice Age, then gradually hidden beneath a thin layer of soil.