Welcome to Maine Guides Online!
Maine Guides everywhere have come together to make the largest index of Maine Recreational Guides on the Internet.
Maine Guides .com provides a technological treasury of information including the The MGO Store, History of the Maine Guide, How to Become a Maine Guide and more.
Maine Guides have prepared themselves tirelessly for the sole purpose of helping you enjoy everything Maine has to offer including Canoeing the Allagash, Kennebec River Whitewater Rafting, Kayaking Maine’s Rivers, Mountain Climbing,Youth Trips, Nature Tours and Photo Excursions, just to name a few!
Kayaking in Maine, whether it be sea kayaking or whitewater kayaking on the Kennebec, it’s a journey that no-one should go without experiencing personaly and up close. Let a Maine Kayaking Guide show you the proper techniques and the best kayaking spots Maine has to offer.
When you get a taste of Maine’s abundant woodlands, trails, seashores, lakes, and rivers that teem with fish and wildlife, you’ll know why we spend all year long in our great state and why we can say, Only in Maine!
MaineGuides.com is a one-stop resource providing easy searches for Licensed Professional Maine Guides throughout the state or for any Maine recreational sport from Maine Bird Watching to Whitewater Rafting in Maine. It includes a one-step clickable map of Maine to help you search Maine Guides by area, and is punctuated by a vast gallery of outdoor images. You can even skip the tips, facts and lore and go straight to the MaineGuides.com Contest to win a Shimano Precision Tapered Graphite Rod!
It won’t be long before you find yourself experiencing Sea Kayaking on the Maine Coast, Striped Bass Fishing on the Kennebec River, or Moose Hunting in the Great Northern Woods of Maine. MaineGuides.com will heighten your Maine outdoors experience whether you know nothing about the state or thought you knew everything.
History of the Maine Guide:
She Was Maine’s First Licensed Guide
 Cornilia Thurza Crosby, or “Fly Rod”, Maine’s first Registered Maine Guide
On March 19, 1897, The Maine legislature passed a bill requiring hunting guides to register with the state. Maine registered 1316 guides in that Ist year. The honor of receiving the first Maine guiding license went to Cornilia Thurza Crosby, or “Fly Rod”, as she was affectionately known to friends across the country. Crosby first discovered her love for the wilderness when, on the advice of her doctor, she left her job in a bank to seek “a large dose of the outdoors”. This prescription brought her to Rangeley, Maine, where she found work housekeeping in some of the large hotels in the area. She became friends with the local guides, and from them she learned the lore of the woods and the pleasures of camping, hunting, and fishing.
History of the Maine Guide Continued…
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