OLD TOWN — Conservationist Roxanne Quimby has purchased a wilderness sporting camp on the East Branch of the Maine’s Penobscot River.

Lunksoos Camps was built in 1881 to serve lumberjacks. Today, it consists of a lodge and four cabins on 14 acres across the river from more than 70,000 acres Quimby hopes to donate to the National Park Service.

Percival Baxter stayed at Lunksoos the night before climbing Mount Katahdin in 1920. Nineteen years later, it was the site of the rescue of 12-year-old Donn Fendler, nine days after he got lost on Katahdin. That led to the book, “Lost on a Mountain in Maine.”

Quimby’s conservation foundation, Elliotsville Plantation Inc., says Lunksoos camps will be used to provide access for hiking, canoeing, skiing, bird watching, research, and artist and writer retreats.