Prouboy,

Thanks for the recommend, but we're looking for a trip withing a day's travel of northern Virginia. BSA rule is no more than 8 hours drvining in one day, so Maine would be two days travel on either end. 

I did a trip on the Allagash in 2002.  It was a nice area and as I recall, Allagash Falls was about the halfway point in a 7 day trip and our only portage.  We got windbound one day and the fishing was pretty poor to me, by BW/Q standards, but maybe I just didn't know the area.  Nice scenery, though and fairly remote.

pd