Print it. Bag it. Bring it.Phones die, screens crack, and most of this water has no signal. Print this map, fold it into a zip-top bag or dry bag with your license, and you have a backup your electronics can’t give you. Every marker is numbered so you can say exactly where you are.
| # | Point | Type | Lat, Lon | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boundary Road bridge Orient | upper St. Croix | Bridge crossing | 45.81678, -67.78055 | |
| 2 | Forest City Landing Spednic Road, Forest City | Access / boat ramp | 45.65734, -67.70210 | At the East Grand outlet into Spednic Lake. The state names a reach from Mud Lake to Spednic Lake here, but neither lake boundary is placeable on this centreline. |
| 3 | Vanceboro Water Street landing unnamed in OSM | Access / boat ramp | 45.57095, -67.42539 | |
| 4 | USGS gauge - St. Croix River at Vanceboro site 01018500 | USGS gauge | 45.56833, -67.42833 | The gauge this water page reads. Three more stations sit downstream at Baring, Milltown and Calais. |
| 5 | US Customs and Border Protection, Vanceboro port of entry | Agency / conservation office | 45.56824, -67.42948 | This is an international boundary river: the far bank is New Brunswick. Know where the ports of entry are before you cross anything. |
| 6 | Loon Bay Road landing Dyer Twp | unnamed in OSM | Access / boat ramp | 45.40717, -67.45104 | On the Spednic flowage; named from its access road by reverse geocode. |
| 7 | Reach limit - Grand Falls Dam, Baileyville upstream end | Regulation section limit | 45.26727, -67.47777 | Upstream end of the state’s named October reach, which runs down to the Milltown Dam. Placed at the Grand Falls canal dam, the mapped anchor; the powerhouse dam fishway beside it carries its own named closed zone. |
| 8 | Woodland Dam Baileyville | Dam / hazard | 45.15955, -67.40313 | The fishway and a named zone within 75 ft of any part of it are closed ground. |
| 9 | Elm Street landing, Baileyville unnamed in OSM | Access / boat ramp | 45.15398, -67.39277 | |
| 10 | Reach limit - Milltown Dam, Calais downstream end | Regulation section limit | 45.16998, -67.29676 | Downstream end of that same named reach. Placed at the Milltown crossing beside the dam; the state names no reach below here to the head of tide. |
| 11 | Ferry Point Bridge (ME 9) Calais - St. Stephen | international crossing | Bridge crossing | 45.19155, -67.28348 | |
| 12 | US Customs Office, Calais port of entry | Agency / conservation office | 45.19085, -67.28345 | |
| 13 | Calais waterfront landing Waterfront Park Way | unnamed in OSM | Access / boat ramp | 45.19025, -67.27622 | |
| 14 | Flat Iron Park Calais | Park / conservation area | 45.18930, -67.27722 | |
| 15 | Saint Croix Island International Historic Site National Park Service | Park / conservation area | 45.12418, -67.14750 | The NPS visitor centre for the island stands at this point; the island itself lies offshore. |
Gauge: USGS 01018500 — St. Croix River at Vanceboro, Maine. Live flow on the web page.
Species: Brook Trout, Chain Pickerel, Landlocked Atlantic Salmon, Muskellunge, Smallmouth Bass
Regulations: www.maine.gov/ifw/fishing-boating/fishing/laws-rules.html
Emergency: call 911 and give the number of the nearest point on this map plus its coordinates.
Vanceboro - the gauge reach and the standard put-in at the Spednic Lake outlet.
Spednic Lake - the large flowage above the dam, with launch access.
Little Falls - a rip below Vanceboro reached from the river.
Loon Bay - an intermediate access point on the middle river.
Grand Falls Flowage - the downstream flowage with several public landings.
Kellyland - lower-river access near the Grand Falls dam.
Calais - the tidal end of the system, below the freshwater river.
Spring: high, cold water with the smallmouth fishing arriving late in the month of May.
Summer: the peak season, with surface fishing for smallmouth through the rips and flats.
Fall: cooling water, fewer paddlers, and smallmouth feeding hard before the close.
Winter: the river is locked up and fishing moves to the ice on the flowages.