A Heritage Reclaimed
2025 Grand Lakes Region Guide
The 2025 Grand Lakes Region guide, published by DownEast Acadia Regional Tourism, features several local businesses and community members, including GEGEC’s Board President and Registered Maine Guide Dan Dagget, and covers everything from conservation and stewardship in the area to hiring a Registered Maine Guide and enjoying a shore lunch.
View the guide online or download here to print and enjoy!
Investing In People and Assets
A Citizen-Led Effort
Launched in April 2019, the Greater East Grand Region economic planning initiative was designed from the beginning to be a citizen-led effort. Greater East Grand Economic Council, founded in 2021, promotes actions to unify people, communities and organizations in order to support each other’s needs, efforts and successes across the region. The Board of Director’s vision is to create a sustainable, collaborative and trustworthy intermediary organization to guide and coordinate economic development by supporting entrepreneurship, business succession, workforce development, and recreational stewardship.
A Heritage Reclaimed
The phrase – “a heritage reclaimed” – speaks to the values, passion and vision of the hearty group of “locals” and the devoted influx of “summer folks,” who all share a love for, and many a livelihood around the Region’s lakes, rivers, forests and farms; the natural beauty and quiet, outdoor lifestyle of rural living; and aspire to regain the region’s vitality by investing in its people and assets.
rural communities defined by landscape and united through heritage
The citizen-designated Maine planning region includes the towns of Amity, Danforth, Haynesville, Orient and Weston; the plantations of Drew, Glenwood and Reed including the Village of Wytopitlock; the Unorganized Townships of Bancroft, Brookton, Forest City and Forest.