Coos Canyon
by Ben Prepelka
Title
Coos Canyon
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Ben Prepelka
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Between Rumford and Oquossoc, Maine's Route 17 follows the Swift River. Just north of Byron, visitors won't have to don their hiking boots and shoulder their packs to enjoy Coos Canyon. This roadside rest area features a rugged gorge that's just steps away from the parking lot. Eons of erosion by the Swift River has sliced through a tough layer of metamorphic rock and granite. Difficult to imagine, but thundering waters, laden with abrasive sand and gravel, have carved this small canyon over an incredibly long period of time. In the riverbed of sand and gravel amateur rock hounds may find tourmaline, garnet, quartz, lepidolite, feldspars, aquamarine and flakes of gold.
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August 9th, 2016
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