Crocker Mountain

Crocker Mountain is a mostly wooded New England 4000 footer located in Carrabassett Valley, Maine.
Crocker Mountain is traversed by the Appalachian Trail.
A glacial cirque called "Crocker Cirque" is located between the main summit and the lower summit of South Crocker Mountain.
Crocker Cirque contains a small pond and can be reached via the Appalachian Trail.

Routes

A.T.

12 climbs • 8.9 mi • 3,714 ft gain • 4 hr 46 min

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"Got to the parking at 12 pm, and hit the trail head about 1/2 mile later. Gentle climb, very wet and water running down the trails. Crystal clear skies gave some wonderful views!!!" — Bucky • Jul 15, 2020

"Dreary day, so I chose the only 3 summits in Maine without spectacular views. The rain held off and it was very nice hiking weather. The herd path to Redington is well-trodden and marked, so there were no challenges on that part of the hike. Other than having to climb South Crocker 3 times, it wasn't a difficult hike." — PJSelmer • Sep 14, 2019

"Driving from Boston directly to the trailhead, this ended up being a long day. We hiked to the summit of South Crocker with no real issues. The trip over to North Crocker was straightforward, but some snow began to fall on our way back. Upon returning to South Crocker, we ate some lunch and then began our trip across to Redington. The herdpath was easy to follow for most of the trip over. We ended up walking the last half mile of the hike in the dark, much to the chagrin of the dog, who kept tripping. " — hikertotown • Nov 4, 2017

"A tough 2 day effort of trail breaking to reach it. The first day, 8 of us were dealing with knee deep powder in snowshoes and route finding. The second day, 5 of us lost the trail and had to bushwack back over. We eventually reached the summit. 9.5 hours to break out 5.2 miles of trail. We were socked in the clouds. We were to tired to continue on to S. Crocker." — newenglandwarrior • Feb 19, 2017

"Tuesday I dropped Kim off in Caratunk to slack pack the 20 mile section SoBo to Flagstaff Rd. at the end of the Bigelow Range and since I had a good portion of the day to kill I decided to go hit some 4000 footers that I hadn't done yet. So, after getting back up to S.Crocker from Redington I headed over on the AT to the North Crocker summit. It was just under a mile and not a difficult hike at all. I only stopped on the summit for a minute to take a photo and then headed back to S.Crocker in order to head back to the car at Caribou Valley Road. Total mileage on the day was only 9.6 miles, which is an easy day to pick up three separate 4000 footers. " — LGH-Tom • Sep 20, 2016

"NoBo AT Thru Hike 2016. Tom had driven me back to Maine and was going to stay a couple more days, so I was able to slack pack this small section even though I got a late start. I ran into a trail friend "scavenger" who I had not seen in a long time and we both were lucky to see a moose on the trail! This was the first moose I have seen hiking. I got down to the road crossing shortly after dark. " — Kim-Stilson • Sep 18, 2016

"This peak was a bit tough to get to. First you drive past Sugarloaf on west 27 and Caribou Pond rd (marked by a hand drawn sign) is on the left. This is an old logging road, so 4 wheel drive is nice but not necessary, though a good amount of height between your vehicles chassis and the ground would help a lot, many potholes, rocks and ditches scarring the road. Follow this til it ends at a blockade (see picture). Park here, continue to walk up the path about .5 miles til you see the AT crossing, fairly well marked (see picture) take a right onto the AT. Take the AT up to South Crocker summit, continue north to Crocker for a mile, there's no view up at the summit so when you head back to So Crocker find the viewpoint to the south of the summit and enjoy the great views of Sugarloaf/Spaulding/Abraham! Great day up there, sunny and around freezing. " — chrisr00d • Oct 23, 2012

"Great day for a hike. Thirty-two degrees when we hike the trail at 6:45 this morning. A light dusting of snow was visible at the trail head on Route 27. The higher we climbed the more snow we encountered when we reached the top it was a measurable amount of snow. The trail had some slick spots and ice covered rocks. The views were better than I thought they would be seeing I was told there would be no view at all. After reaching the summit, we went on to South Crocker and continued down the AT to Caribou Valley Road. There we meet a nice couple from New Hampshire who had just climbed Reddington. We hitched a ride back to our van parked on 27. This was great and saved us from having to hike out the last 5.5 miles we were planning on doing. The Caribou Valley Road was passable to the steel-bridge. about a mile short of the AT. The couple we hitched the ride with were in a Honda Accord. " — bwright • Oct 13, 2012

"AMC trip from Caribou Lake Rd. Frank and I and AMC group climbed South Crocker first, then Crocker. Rainy day, so we thought wooded summit would be better than wasting peak(s) with good views." — barbaratraver • Jul 6, 1991