Wonderful walks
If you’re looking for a walk that doesn’t take you to the top of a mountain, check out some of these special spots listed by region. If you think I’m excluding one that should be here, please let me know!
(You can find other great walks that involve hiking uphill in Some Good Little Mountains, or Mountains.)
Western Maine (roughly Baldwin to Jackman)
- Brownfield Bog, BROWNFIELD sights and attractions: rivers, views, wetlands
pets: yes - Cataracts Trail, GRAFTON NOTCH STATE PARK, ANDOVER WEST SURPLUS TOWNSHIP sights and attractions: streams, swimming spots, waterfalls
pets: yes - Center Hill Nature Trail, WELD sights and attractions: parks, views
pets: yes - Dunn Falls, ANDOVER NORTH SURPLUS TOWNSHIP sights and attractions: streams, swimming spots, waterfalls
pets: yes - Foothills Land Conservancy, WILTON sights and attractions: fields, wetlands
pets: yes - Forest Legacy Trail, ADAMSTOWN sights and attractions: lakes, moss gardens, swimming spots, views
pets: yes - Hatchery Brook Preserve, RANGELEY sights and attractions: lakes, sandy beaches, swimming spots, wetlands
pets: yes - McCoy-Chapman Forest, BETHEL sights and attractions: streams, views, waterfalls
pets: yes - Mingo Springs Trail and Bird Walk, RANGELEY sights and attractions: fields
pets: yes - Mosher Hill Falls, FARMINGTON sights and attractions: gorges, streams, waterfalls
pets: yes - Orgonon Trails at the Reich Museum, RANGELEY sights and attractions: fields, history, streams, views
pets: yes - Perham Stream Birding Trail, MADRID TOWNSHIP sights and attractions: cemeteries, fields, history, stone foundations, streams, views
pets: yes - Poplar Stream Falls, CARRABASSETT VALLEY sights and attractions: waterfalls
pets: yes - Shiloh Pond Community Forest, KINGFIELD sights and attractions: lakes, ponds, waterfalls
pets: yes - Valentine Farm, BETHEL sights and attractions: accessible trails, fields, gardens, rivers
pets: yes - West Mountain Falls, CARRABASSETT VALLEY sights and attractions: rivers, swimming spots, waterfalls
pets: yes
Midcoast Maine (Bath to Belfast)
- Androscoggin Woods, TOPSHAM sights and attractions: rivers, wetlands
pets: yes - Armbrust Hill Town Park, VINALHAVEN sights and attractions: playgrounds, ponds, quarries, views
pets: yes - Bald Head Preserve and Squirrel Point Light, ARROWSIC sights and attractions: rivers, tidal rivers
pets: no - Beech Hill Preserve, ROCKPORT sights and attractions: accessible trails, blueberry barrens, fields, views
pets: yes - Berry Woods Preserve, GEORGETOWN sights and attractions: coves, fields, ponds, rivers, tidal rivers
pets: no - Birch Point Beach State Park, OWLS HEAD sights and attractions: headlands, parks, sandy beaches, seashores, swimming spots
pets: yes - Blueberry Hill, WINTERPORT sights and attractions: barrens
pets: yes - Bonyun Preserve, WESTPORT ISLAND sights and attractions: coves, history, information panels, rivers, swimming spots, tidal rivers
pets: no - Bumper Rock (Robinson's Rock) and Totman Cove, PHIPPSBURG sights and attractions: open summits, sandy beaches, views
pets: yes - Captain William Fitzgerald Conservation Area, BRUNSWICK sights and attractions: accessible trails, barrens, paved trails, ponds, swimming spots
pets: yes - Center Point Preserve, BOWDOINHAM sights and attractions: rivers, stony beaches, swimming spots, tidal rivers
pets: yes - Clark Island Preserve, ST. GEORGE sights and attractions: coves, quarries, sandy beaches, seashores, swimming spots
pets: yes - Clarry Hill Preserve, UNION AND WALDOBORO sights and attractions: ponds, views
pets: yes - Connor Mill Trail, UNITY sights and attractions: streams, swimming spots
pets: yes - Cooley Center Pond and McKay Farm Preserves, PHIPPSBURG sights and attractions: art, lakes, wetlands
pets: yes - Cross Cushing Nature Preserve, CUSHING sights and attractions: moss gardens, rivers, tidal rivers
pets: yes - Dodge Point Public Land, NEWCASTLE sights and attractions: estuaries, rivers, sandy beaches, stony beaches, swimming spots, tidal rivers
pets: yes - Dutch Neck Marine Park, WALDOBORO sights and attractions: rivers, seashores, swimming spots, tidal rivers
pets: yes - Eaton Farm Preserve, WISCASSET sights and attractions: fields, rivers, seashores, tidal rivers
pets: yes - Fernald's Neck Preserve, LINCOLNVILLE sights and attractions: lakes, swimming spots, views, wetlands
pets: no - Geele Farm Trails, WALDOBORO sights and attractions: coves, farms, rivers, tidal rivers, wetlands
pets: yes - Green Point Wildlife Management Area, DRESDEN sights and attractions: fields, orchards, ponds, rivers, swimming spots
pets: yes - Hamilton Sanctuary, WEST BATH sights and attractions: coves, fields, ponds, salt marshes, wetlands
pets: no - Josephine Newman Audubon Sanctuary, GEORGETOWN sights and attractions: coves, fields, ponds, tidal rivers
pets: no - La Verna Nature Preserve, BRISTOL sights and attractions: bays, headlands, seashores
pets: yes - Lane's Island Preserve, VINALHAVEN sights and attractions: cemeteries, coves, headlands, seashores, stony beaches
pets: yes - Linekin and Burley Preserves, BOOTHBAY sights and attractions: ponds, seashores
pets: yes - Lower Mill River Preserve, VINALHAVEN sights and attractions: coves, harbors, seashores
pets: yes - Marie H. Reed Breakwater Park, ROCKLAND sights and attractions: accessible trails, bays, harbors, history, lighthouses, parks, seashores
pets: yes - Morse Mountain to Seawall Beach, PHIPPSBURG sights and attractions: sandy beaches, salt marshes, seashores
pets: no - Oak Point Farm, BOOTHBAY sights and attractions: accessible trails, fields, inlets, ponds, rivers, seashores, tidal rivers
pets: yes - Ormsby Sanctuary at Merrymeeting Park, BRUNSWICK sights and attractions: accessible trails, fields, history, information panels, parks, ravines, rivers, swimming spots, wetlands
pets: yes - Ovens Mouth East and West Preserve, BOOTHBAY sights and attractions: rivers, tidal rivers, wetlands
pets: yes - Owls Head State Park, OWLS HEAD sights and attractions: headlands, lighthouses, parks, seashores, stony beaches
pets: yes - Pemaquid Pond Preserve, BREMEN sights and attractions: ponds, swimming spots
pets: yes - Peters Pond Preserve, WALDOBORO sights and attractions: ponds, swimming spots, wetlands
pets: yes - Plaisted Preserve, OWLS HEAD sights and attractions: seashores, stony beaches, swimming spots
pets: yes - Pleasant Point Nature Preserve, CUSHING sights and attractions: moss gardens, wetlands
pets: yes - Plummer Point, SOUTH BRISTOL sights and attractions: coves, estuaries, rivers, tidal rivers
pets: yes - Porter Preserve and Roberts Wharf, BOOTHBAY sights and attractions: bays, coves, rivers, seashores, stony beaches, swimming spots, tidal rivers
pets: yes - Reid State Park, GEORGETOWN sights and attractions: parks, sandy beaches, salt marshes, seashores
pets: yes - Riverbrook Preserve, WALDOBORO sights and attractions: fields, rivers, streams
pets: yes - Salt Bay Farm, DAMARISCOTTA sights and attractions: fields, lakes, rivers, wetlands
pets: yes - Salt Pond Blueberry Barrens, BLUE HILL sights and attractions: barrens, swimming spots, views
pets: yes - Spirit Pond Trails, PHIPPSBURG sights and attractions: salt marshes, wetlands
pets: yes - Squirrel Island seaside trail, SOUTHPORT sights and attractions: headlands, sandy beaches, seashores, swimming spots
pets: yes - Swan Island, RICHMOND sights and attractions: accessible trails, cemeteries, fields, history, islands, rivers, stone foundations, swimming spots, towers
pets: no - The Basin Preserve trails, VINALHAVEN sights and attractions: bays, ponds, quarries, seashores, views
pets: yes - Thorne Head Preserve and Whiskeag Trail, BATH sights and attractions: rivers, streams, swimming spots, tidal rivers
pets: yes - Trout Brook Preserve, ALNA sights and attractions: streams
pets: yes - Turtle Head, ISLESBORO sights and attractions: bays, headlands, seashores
pets: yes - Warren Island State Park, NEAR ISLESBORO sights and attractions: bays, coves, seashores, stony beaches
pets: yes - Wilbur Preserve at Cox Head, PHIPPSBURG sights and attractions: bays, bumps, headlands, open summits, seashores, tidal rivers, views
pets: yes - Woodward Point Preserve, BRUNSWICK sights and attractions: accessible trails, coves, fields, inlets, ponds, seashores
pets: yes
Downeast Maine (East of Belfast)
- Baker Hill and Long Ledges, SULLIVAN sights and attractions: lakes, quarries, swimming spots, views
pets: yes - Barred Island Preserve, DEER ISLE sights and attractions: bays, coves, moss gardens, sandy beaches, seashores, swimming spots
pets: no - Birdsacre, ELLSWORTH sights and attractions: accessible trails
pets: Partly - Black Duck Cove, LUBEC sights and attractions: coves, headlands, seashores
pets: yes - Blue Horizons, MOUNT DESERT ISLAND (BAR HARBOR) sights and attractions: seashores, stony beaches, swimming spots
pets: yes - Bog Brook Cove, CUTLER, TRESCOTT sights and attractions: bumps, ponds, seashores, stony beaches, views
pets: yes - Boot Head, LUBEC sights and attractions: gorges, headlands, seashores, stony beaches, wetlands
pets: yes - Carter Nature Preserve, Furth Wildlife and Talalay Nature Sanctuaries, SURRY sights and attractions: bays, stony beaches, swimming spots
pets: Partly - Cutler Coast Public Reserved Land, Bold Coast Trail, CUTLER sights and attractions: cliffs, coves, headlands, parks, seashores, stony beaches, views, wetlands
pets: yes - Denbow Point, LUBEC sights and attractions: bays, coves, seashores, stony beaches
pets: yes - Donnell Pond Public Reserved Land, NEAR SULLIVAN AND FRANKLIN sights and attractions: lakes, open summits, sandy beaches, small mountains, views
pets: yes - Eastern Knubble Preserve, CUTLER sights and attractions: moss gardens, quarries, seashores, stony beaches
pets: yes - Edgar M. Tennis Preserve, DEER ISLE sights and attractions: bays, coves, fields, sandy beaches, seashores, stone foundations, swimming spots
pets: yes - Great Head, ACADIA NATIONAL PARK sights and attractions: headlands, parks, sandy beaches, swimming spots
pets: yes - Great Wass Island Preserve, BEALS sights and attractions: headlands, islands, seashores, stony beaches, wetlands
pets: no - Hamilton Cove, LUBEC sights and attractions: bumps, fields, seashores, stony beaches, views
pets: yes - Harriman Point, BROOKLIN sights and attractions: inlets, seashores, stony beaches, swimming spots
pets: yes - Holbrook Island Santuary, BROOKSVILLE sights and attractions: bumps, cemeteries, parks, ponds, sandy beaches, stony beaches, swimming spots, wetlands
pets: yes - Huckins Beach and Morrison Cove, LUBEC sights and attractions: bays, fields, seashores, stony beaches, swimming spots
pets: yes - Hunters Cliffs Trail, MOUNT DESERT ISLAND sights and attractions: cliffs, seashores, stony beaches
pets: yes - Indian Point Blagden Preserve, MOUNT DESERT ISLAND (BAR HARBOR) sights and attractions: fields, orchards, seashores, stony beaches, swimming spots
pets: no - Little Long Pond Natural Lands, Eliot Mountain, and Thuya Garden trails, MOUNT DESERT ISLAND (MOUNT DESERT) sights and attractions: fields, ponds, small mountains, views
pets: yes - Long Point, MACHIASPORT sights and attractions: headlands, stony beaches
pets: yes - Musquash Esker Trail, GRAND LAKE STREAM sights and attractions: glacial or geological features, information panels, ponds, wetlands
pets: yes - Old Farm Point Shorefront Park, LUBEC sights and attractions: bays, fields, seashores
pets: yes - Peters Brook Trail and Penny's Preserve, BLUE HILL sights and attractions: quarries, streams, swimming spots, waterfalls
pets: yes - Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge, STEUBEN sights and attractions: bays, barrens, coves, seashores, stony beaches
pets: yes - Quoddy Head State Park, LUBEC sights and attractions: accessible trails, cliffs, coves, fields, headlands, lighthouses, parks, sandy beaches, seashores, wetlands
pets: yes - Red Point Nature Preserve, LUBEC sights and attractions: coves, fields, headlands, inlets, seashores
pets: no - Salt Pond Trail and Carters Beach Corridor, HANCOCK sights and attractions: inlets, salt marshes, seashores, stony beaches, wetlands
pets: yes - Sandy Cove Trail, TRESCOTT TOWNSHIP sights and attractions: coves, headlands, sandy beaches, seashores
pets: yes - Scott's Landing, DEER ISLE sights and attractions: fields, history, seashores, stony beaches
pets: no - Settlement Quarry, STONINGTON sights and attractions: history, information panels, quarries, views
pets: yes - Sipayik Trail, PASSAMAQUODDY PLEASANT POINT RESERVATION sights and attractions: accessible trails, bays, headlands, paved trails, stony beaches, tidal rivers
pets: yes - Vining Lake Community Preserve, COOPER AND CATHANCE TOWNSHIP sights and attractions: lakes, swimming spots, wetlands
pets: yes - Western Head Preserve, CUTLER sights and attractions: cliffs, headlands, moss gardens, seashores, stony beaches
pets: yes
Southern Maine (Kittery to Brunswick, and West to N.H. Border)
- Bowdoin's Schiller Coastal Studies Center, ORR'S ISLAND sights and attractions: coves, fields, seashores, stony beaches, inlets
pets: yes - Capisic Pond Park, PORTLAND sights and attractions: accessible trails, fields, ponds, streams, urban trails
pets: yes - Cascade Falls, SACO sights and attractions: accessible trails, streams, waterfalls
pets: yes - Cathance River Nature Preserve and Head of Tide Park, TOPSHAM sights and attractions: parks, rivers, wetlands
pets: no - Cliff Trail, HARPSWELL sights and attractions: accessible trails, cliffs, views, waterfalls
pets: yes - Cliff Walk, YORK sights and attractions: coves, seashores
pets: no - Crescent Beach State Park and Kettle Cove, CAPE ELIZABETH sights and attractions: accessible trails, fields, parks, playgrounds, sandy beaches, seashores, swimming spots
pets: yes - Curtis Farm Preserve, HARPSWELL sights and attractions: bays, coves, farms, fields, glacial or geological features, seashores, stony beaches
pets: yes - East Point Sanctuary, BIDDEFORD sights and attractions: fields, headlands, seashores
pets: no - Eastern Prom and Back Cove, PORTLAND sights and attractions: accessible trails, bays, paved trails, sandy beaches, seashores, urban trails
pets: yes - Evergreen Woods and Cemetery, PORTLAND sights and attractions: accessible trails, cemeteries, paved trails, ponds
pets: yes - Ferry Beach State Park, SACO sights and attractions: accessible trails, parks, ponds, sandy beaches, swimming spots, wetlands
pets: yes - Florida Lake, FREEPORT sights and attractions: lakes, wetlands
pets: yes - Fore River Sanctuary, PORTLAND sights and attractions: history, rivers, urban trails, waterfalls
pets: yes - Fort Foster, KITTERY sights and attractions: accessible trails, history, playgrounds, seashores, stony beaches, tidal rivers
pets: yes - Fort Williams Park, CAPE ELIZABETH sights and attractions: accessible trails, fields, headlands, history, lighthouses, parks, paved trails, playgrounds, ponds, sandy beaches, seashores, swimming spots
pets: yes - Fuller Farm, SCARBOROUGH sights and attractions: fields, streams, waterfalls
pets: yes - Gilsland Farm, FALMOUTH sights and attractions: estuaries, fields, ponds, tidal rivers
pets: no - Great Pond Trail, CAPE ELIZABETH sights and attractions: ponds, wetlands
pets: yes - Hope Woods and Trails, KENNEBUNK sights and attractions: accessible trails, cemeteries, ponds, streams
pets: yes - Jagolinzer Preserve, LIMINGTON sights and attractions: rivers, streams, waterfalls
pets: yes - Jewell Island, PORTLAND sights and attractions: history, sandy beaches, seashores, swimming spots, towers
pets: yes - Kennebunk Plains, KENNEBUNK sights and attractions: barrens, fields, ponds, rivers, streams
pets: no - Littlejohn Island Preserve, YARMOUTH sights and attractions: bays, coves, fields, islands, sandy beaches, seashores
pets: yes - Mackworth Island Trail, FALMOUTH sights and attractions: accessible trails, bays, cemeteries, history, islands, sandy beaches, seashores
pets: yes - Marginal Way Cliff Walk, OGUNQUIT sights and attractions: paved trails, seashores
pets: no - Meadow Woods Preserve, KENNEBUNKPORT sights and attractions: fields, gardens, ponds, streams, wetlands
pets: yes - Negutaquet Conservation Area, NORTH BERWICK sights and attractions: cemeteries, fields, mature forests, rivers
pets: yes - Old Town House Park and Dunn's Depot Trail, NORTH YARMOUTH sights and attractions: fields, rivers
pets: yes - Orris Falls Conservation Area, SOUTH BERWICK sights and attractions: glacial or geological features, gorges, ponds, stone foundations, waterfalls, wetlands
pets: yes - Pleasant Hill Preserve, SCARBOROUGH sights and attractions: accessible trails, fields, wetlands
pets: yes - Pott's Point Preserve, HARPSWELL sights and attractions: bays, seashores, stony beaches
pets: yes - Presumpscot River Preserve and Oat Nuts Park, PORTLAND sights and attractions: rivers, urban trails, waterfalls
pets: yes - Rachel Carson Interpretive Trail, WELLS sights and attractions: accessible trails, salt marshes
pets: yes - Saco Heath, SACO sights and attractions: wetlands
pets: no - Salmon Falls Reserve, LEBANON sights and attractions: rivers, swimming spots, waterfalls
pets: yes - Sebago Lake State Park, CASCO AND NAPLES sights and attractions: lakes, parks, sandy beaches, swimming spots, wetlands
pets: yes - Smelt Brook and Highland Farm Preserves, YORK sights and attractions: fields, ponds, salt marshes, wetlands
pets: yes - Spear Farm Estuary Preserve, YARMOUTH sights and attractions: estuaries, ponds, salt marshes, tidal rivers, wetlands
pets: yes - Spurwink Trail, CAPE ELIZABETH sights and attractions: fields, wetlands
pets: yes - St. Anthony Franciscan Monastery Trail, KENNEBUNK sights and attractions: gardens, paved trails, rivers, tidal rivers, wetlands
pets: no - Talking Brook Public Land, Big Falls, NEW GLOUCESTER AND AUBURN sights and attractions: streams, waterfalls
pets: yes - Tassel Top Park, RAYMOND sights and attractions: lakes, parks, sandy beaches, swimming spots
pets: yes - The Giant's Stairs, HARPSWELL sights and attractions: glacial or geological features
pets: yes - The Raymond & Simone Savage Wildlife Preserve, SOUTH BERWICK sights and attractions: fields, rivers, streams
pets: no - Timber Point, BIDDEFORD sights and attractions: accessible trails, fields, sandy beaches, seashores, wetlands
pets: no - Tuckahoe Preserve, BERWICK sights and attractions: fields, rivers
pets: yes - Two Lights State Park, CAPE ELIZABETH sights and attractions: monuments, parks, seashores
pets: yes - Vaughan Woods Memorial State Park, SOUTH BERWICK sights and attractions: fields, gardens, history, rivers
pets: yes - Wells Reserve at Laudholm, WELLS sights and attractions: estuaries, fields, ponds, rivers, sandy beaches, salt marshes, seashores, swimming spots, tidal rivers, wetlands
pets: no - Williams Town Park, SHAPLEIGH sights and attractions: fields, parks, ponds, towers
pets: yes - Wolfe's Neck Woods State Park, FREEPORT sights and attractions: bays, parks, seashores, tidal rivers
pets: yes
Central Maine, south
(This is a loose category! Basically it includes trails between the coast and the Western mountains)
- Benton River Park, BENTON sights and attractions: parks, rivers
pets: yes - Cummings Preserve, GORHAM sights and attractions: canals, rivers, swimming spots
pets: yes - Davidson Nature Preserve, VASSALBORO sights and attractions: barrens, fields, wetlands
pets: no - Gott Pasture Preserve, WAYNE sights and attractions: lakes, swimming spots
pets: no - Hallowell Reservoir, HALLOWELL sights and attractions: ponds, sandy beaches, swimming spots
pets: yes - Macdonald Woods Conservation Area and Readfield Town Forest, READFIELD sights and attractions: cemeteries, fields, history, stone foundations
pets: yes - Parker Pond Headland Preserve, FAYETTE sights and attractions: headlands, lakes, views
pets: yes - Range Pond State Park, POLAND sights and attractions: accessible trails, lakes, parks, sandy beaches
pets: yes - Surry Hill Community Forest, FAYETTE sights and attractions: bumps, fields, views
pets: yes - Vaughan Woods, HALLOWELL sights and attractions: history, monuments, streams, waterfalls
pets: yes - Viles Arboretum, AUGUSTA sights and attractions: arboretums, art, fields, gardens, ponds
pets: yes
Northern Maine (Somerset, Penobscot, Piscataquis and Aroostook counties)
- Blueberry Ledges, BAXTER STATE PARK sights and attractions: streams, waterfalls
pets: no - Cold Stream Falls, JOHNSON MOUNTAIN TOWNSHIP sights and attractions: rivers, waterfalls
pets: yes - Houston Brook Falls, BINGHAM sights and attractions: streams, swimming spots, waterfalls
pets: yes - Moxie Falls Trail, MOXIE GORE sights and attractions: rivers, waterfalls
pets: yes - Pierce Pond Stream Falls and Gorge, CARRYING PLACE TOWNSHIP, BOWTOWN TOWNSHIP sights and attractions: streams, swimming spots, waterfalls
pets: yes - Pleasant Lake Preserve, STETSON sights and attractions: lakes, swimming spots, wetlands
pets: yes - South Branch Pond Campground trails, BAXTER STATE PARK sights and attractions: lakes, parks, swimming spots, waterfalls
pets: no - Windy Pitch Pond Trail, BAXTER STATE PARK sights and attractions: lakes, ponds, swimming spots, waterfalls, wetlands
pets: no
2 comments to “Wonderful walks”
2 comments to “Wonderful walks”
Trails in the Katahdin region! ?
Thanks for noticing that my northern region somehow got cut off! I will add it back in pronto.