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Marketed as a tourist attraction for nearly 100 years, Mela Heestand, who bought the property with her husband Doug Heestand in December 2018, is hoping to showcase instead the wide educational ...

By Becca Abramson From our May 2023 issue. Let’s just get out of the way that the Desert of Maine is not technically a desert — too much rainfall for that. It is, however, an uncanny 40-acre stretch ...

Welcome to the Desert of Maine, an ecological oddity that’s been a tourist attraction for a century. Mela Jones, who bought the desert with a partner in 2018, describes it as beautiful.

Freeport’s Desert of Maine underwent a significant facelift over the winter as part of a multi-year, multi-million-dollar revitalization push that started in 2020.