Island Falls, ME

Island Falls is a census-designated place and the primary village in Island Falls, Aroostook County, Maine, United States. Island Falls is in the northwest part of the town, situated on the West Branch Mattawamkeag River, part of the Penobscot River watershed. U.S. Route 2 passes through the village, leading northeast 27 miles to Houlton and south 38 miles to Mattawamkeag. The short version is that Island Falls carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Island Falls: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Maine State Route 159 has its eastern terminus at U.S. 2 in the center of Island Falls and leads west 10 miles to Patten. Interstate 95 passes just west of the village of Island Falls, with access from Exit 276; I-95 leads northeast to Houlton and southwest 92 miles to Bangor.