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- ↑ "Little Lyford Lodge and Cabins, Moosehead Lake Maine (ME) Hiking, Skiing, Fishing Lodge". Outdoors.org. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
- ↑ "AMC: Newsroom - Winter Activities at Little Lyford and Medawisla". Outdoors.org. 2009-06-17. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
- ↑ http://www.outdoors.org/pdf/upload/Press-Release-2003-AMC-Buys-Little-Lyford-Pond-Camps.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]