CAMDEN — Yes, we know. And we even agree. The gigantic foam and fiberglass molded LL Bean Bootmobile is kind of hokey. It ranks up there in hokeyness with the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile, which came to town a few years ago and parked outside the Hannaford. And let's face it, a Bean boot is brown on brown on brown, unlike the weinermobile, which is all bright with mustard yellow showcasing a big red hotdog.

But when Rockland Police Officer Billy Smith calls you on the secret squirrel phone and says, "Hey, ever seen the LL Bean Bootmobile before?" And you answer, "No." And then he tells you said Bootmobile was just spotted driving north on Route 1 in Rockport, passing by Pen Bay Medical Center, you find yourself more than a little curious.

So, we hopped into the PenBayPilot.com mobile (not to be outdone in the hokey-flashy vehicle department) and staked out the rolling brown boot from the top of Main Street Monday afternoon. We had a great vantage point, looking down upon the town with its colorful store signs to the east and west, and the Chestnut Street Baptist Church steeple serving as the backdrop.

And then it rounded the corner of Route 1, heading north as promised, an actual ginormous brown replica Bean boot on four sturdy wheels. For all of you who have a pair of those boots, we can attest this one is the spitting image of those in your closet.

If you held up your thumb and pointer finger and made a little pinching motion, this one fit just perfectly between them. But then it kept moving closer, and getting bigger. And bigger.

Wow. Billy was right, that boot is pretty cool, especially when one tries to wrap their mind around it rolling through town on its own, without a bootless Jack Bunyan or Jolly Green Giant chasing after it.

Jaye Olander was behind the wheel of the LL Bean Bootmobile and Mike Henry was riding shotgun, having made their way north Monday afternoon following an earlier stop at Popham Beach State Park. Their next stop, after a photo stop on Atlantic Avenue at the head of Camden Harbor, was Camden Hills State Park.

"They said they are going to let us go to the top of the mountain to take some photos," said Olander.

After spending some time atop Mt. Battie, the pair was heading to Fort Knox State Park.

The state park junket was to help promote the American Park Network's Oh, Ranger! program. Oh, Ranger! is a website and a mobile app, both of which helps you find state and national parks around the country by entering a state, town or zip code. It can search within a range of 25 to 250 miles and provides an overview of the park, quick facts, a map and directions, as well as things to do nearby.

"We saw that the Oh, Ranger! website did not have photos of the parks, so we thought we would head out and take some photos with the Bootmobile that they can add to the website," said Henry. LL Bean is a sponsor of Oh, Ranger!, along with Ford, and LL Bean powers its Gear Store online. The American Park Network has been a publisher of visitor guides for national parks for more than two decades.

The LL Bean Bootmobile is powered by a Ford F250 Super Duty turbo diesel and if the boot's size was measured out, it would be a size 747 and the person wearing it would stand 143 feet tall. The shoelace, which was hand-laced and screwed into place, is 30 feet of tug boat rope capable of pulling 120 tons. The Bootmobile is 13 feet tall and averages about 16 miles per gallon of fuel. It was built in 2012 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the LL Bean company.