Maine Trails

Capisic Park is a public park within the City of Portland system. This tranquil 18-acre nature preserve surrounds Portland’s largest fresh-water pond.

The well-maintained trails have multiple and single uses, depending on the season. Single trail uses are skiing and snowshoeing during the winter months, and hiking, running, and biking in the summer months.

These two trails trails offer challenging hiking and a loop option in the heart of the Mahoosuc Range with opportunity for spectacular views and to summit both Goose Eye Mountain and Mount Carlo.

This short trail offers excellent scenery, wildlife viewing, and picnicking opportunities as it follows the gorge of Cascade Stream to a series of beautiful waterfalls.

This short hiking trail along Frye Brook in the Mahoosuc Public Reserved Land offers many chances to view the clear pools and small, tumbling drops of the brook as well as a small picnic area at the end of the trail.

Cathedral Pines Pathways offers easy hiking, snowshoeing, and cross-country skiing through magnificent towering pines and a boardwalk which traverses a bog with spectacular views of the Bigelow Range.

This is a privately owned property managed under conservation easement with the Presumpscot Regional Land Trust (PRLT). The trail on Chessey provides access to Browns Pond through densely wooded mixed forest.

The 155 acre reserve hosts a mile loop, with moderate slope and highlighting features hinting at the past land-use including cellar holes, stone walls, and the resulting forest. A spur trail leads to a bench and view of Lower Bay and Robbins Ridge.

This network of trails, located just outside of Farmington center, meanders through a hardwood forest that contains evidence of recent logging.

Cobscook Bay State Park has two short trails providing opportunities to watch birds and observe the ebb and flow of the region’s impressive tides. In the winter the park maintains trails for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.