Maine DOT Cameras — Live Road Cameras & Map
All Maine DOT cameras — interactive statewide map
About this map
Maine is the largest state in New England and the most spread out, which makes a live camera one of the most useful tools a traveler can carry. The spine of the state is Interstate 95, which enters from New Hampshire at the York toll plaza as the tolled Maine Turnpike, runs through Portland and the capital at Augusta, and then continues as a free interstate past Bangor and on roughly 300 miles to the Canadian border at Houlton. Alongside it, Interstate 295 peels off as the coastal bypass through Portland and Brunswick, US Route 1 hugs the shoreline up the Midcoast to Acadia and Down East to Calais, and a web of state and US routes reaches the western mountains and far-north Aroostook County. Our [Maine DOT camera map](/medot-cameras) pulls roughly 218 of these MaineDOT and Maine Turnpike feeds into one screen.
What sets Maine apart is the weather and the distance. Nor'easters bury the coast and interior in heavy snow, freezing rain and ice glaze the Turnpike, and thick sea fog can roll over US-1 and the Midcoast peninsulas with almost no warning. Once you head north of Bangor, traffic thins dramatically and the rural stretches between towns grow long, so knowing whether the road ahead is plowed, wet, or fogged in genuinely changes a trip. The cameras let you check the actual surface before you commit to a drive that may not have a gas station for forty miles.
Maine's cameras sit on the New England Compass platform shared with New Hampshire and Vermont, and most of them are co-located with a real roadside weather sensor, an RWIS station built into the highway itself. That means each feed on our map links to the nearest on-road reading for air temperature, pavement (surface) temperature, whether the road is dry, wet, snow-covered or icy, and wind. This is data measured at the pavement, not a distant airport, which is exactly what you want when you are trying to judge black ice on the Turnpike or a frozen bridge deck on a January morning.
Maine regions covered
Tap an area chip on the map to jump straight to any of these regions.
Statewide
The statewide view gathers every MaineDOT and Maine Turnpike feed at once, from the York toll plaza on I-95 to Houlton at the Canadian border, with US-1 tracing the coast and US-2, US-201 and Route 9 ("the Airline") branching inland. Use it to scan a long cross-state run, a Portland-to-Bangor Turnpike drive, or a coastal trip toward Acadia before you choose your route.
Portland
Maine's largest metro sits where the I-95 Maine Turnpike, I-295, and US-1 converge. Cameras here cover the Turnpike through South Portland and Scarborough, I-295 crossing the Fore River and Tukey's Bridge over Back Cove through downtown Portland and out toward Falmouth, and the approaches to the Maine Mall and the Casco Bay Bridge. This is the state's busiest commuting and the most useful place to read morning fog or snow before the rest of the network.
Lewiston–Auburn
Maine's second-largest urban area straddles the Androscoggin River at I-95 Exit 80, where the Turnpike meets ME-196 (Lisbon Street) and US-202 runs through downtown Lewiston. Cameras here watch the Turnpike corridor and the L-A connectors that link the mill cities to Portland to the south and Augusta to the north, a stretch that ices over quickly in central Maine cold snaps.
Augusta
The state capital is the hinge of I-95, where the tolled Turnpike ends and the free interstate continues north toward Bangor, and where I-295 rejoins I-95 near West Gardiner after its run up from Portland through Brunswick. Cameras cover the I-95/I-295 junction, the US-202 and US-201 crossings of the Kennebec River, and the approaches to Waterville, making this the natural midpoint check on any north-south Maine drive.
Bangor
Bangor anchors the north end of the populated interstate, where I-95 meets I-395 across the Penobscot River to Brewer and US-2 and US-2A head east. It is the launch point for Route 9, "the Airline," the roughly 100-mile shortcut to Calais and the New Brunswick border, and the last major city before traffic thins on the long run north to Houlton. Cameras here are the place to gauge interior snow and ice before heading Down East or up into the County.
Midcoast & Acadia
This is Maine's iconic coastal drive: US-1 winding through the Midcoast past Brunswick, Wiscasset, Rockland and Camden along Penobscot Bay, then on to Ellsworth where ME-3 turns down to Mount Desert Island, Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park, with US-1 continuing Down East toward Machias and Calais. Cameras here are essential for the dense sea fog that settles over the shoreline and the heavy summer-weekend traffic funneling toward Acadia.
Maine Turnpike (South)
The southern Maine Turnpike carries I-95 from the York toll plaza at the New Hampshire line north through the Kennebunks, Saco and Biddeford toward Portland. This is the busy gateway segment every summer beach traveler and every winter driver heading north uses, and the tolled mainline where a glance at the cameras and the roadside pavement sensors tells you whether the lanes are wet, salted, or glazed with ice.
Aroostook (The County)
"The County" is far-north Maine, where I-95 ends at Houlton on the New Brunswick border and US-1 carries on through Presque Isle, Caribou and up to Fort Kent in the potato country of the Saint John Valley. Cameras are sparse but vital here: the towns are far apart, the winters are long and snowy, and a quick check of the nearest feed and its pavement reading can save you from a hundred miles of unknown road in a storm.
Tips for using Maine road cameras
- Pair every camera with its roadside RWIS sensor reading and watch the pavement (surface) temperature, not just the air temperature, since the road can be icing while the air still reads above freezing.
- Before any winter Turnpike run between the York toll, Portland and Bangor, scan the I-95 cameras for plowed, salted lanes rather than trusting a travel-time estimate alone.
- On the Midcoast and Down East, check the US-1 cameras for sea fog before driving toward Camden, Rockland or Acadia, where the shoreline can fog in with little warning.
- Heading up into Aroostook County, check the camera nearest your route first because towns on US-1 and northern I-95 are far apart with few services in a storm.
- For a Bar Harbor trip, watch the US-1 and ME-3 cameras around Ellsworth on summer weekends, when traffic funnels onto Mount Desert Island and backs up.
- Save the cameras for your regular routes as favorites so a Portland commute, a Sugarloaf drive up ME-27, or a coastal run is one tap away.
Live road cameras in other regions
The same fast camera map for the other states and provinces we cover.
Maine road camera guides
In-depth guides to the highways, passes and destinations we cover here.