Though this park is on the small side, it offers some interesting amenities: you can stroll along paved paths and watch gulls fish in the river. You can play pétanque, run your pup in a small dog park, use the boat launch, learn about the 18th-century midwife Martha Ballard, or visit a weekly farmers market
Springtime is a wonderful time to walk the 0.6-mile trail in the meadow behind the hospital’s staff parking lot, and the 0.3-mile trail along the little brook to the oncology center garden. On the sunny May day that my mom and I walked through the field, we saw bobolinks, goldfinches, red-winged blackbirds, and robins. When
My map is not yet complete. This is the twin to the Garcelon WMA north of here, which encompasses the beautiful Spectacle Pond. While the 2,001-acre Garcelon South property doesn’t have the obvious allure of Garcelon North’s accessible pond, it is as enchanting, just in quieter ways. Also, wildlife management areas in Maine are not
A few well-signed trails around the medical center might tempt people to walk off the Togus campus and explore the nearby wetlands and forest. Some of the trails bring you to VA cemeteries. All of the trails are easy, and many of them are as wide as ATV tracks. In fact, a few seem popular
I almost felt like I was strolling in the Jardin des Tuileries here, with its wide esplanade — or, rather, allée! — between rows of trees and benches spaced out along the path edge. It needs more little dogs, though, to feel truly Parisian! The Maine State House looms over one end. It’s really picturesque,
Augusta Greenway Trail in green; Kennebec Rail Trail in blue. This is a wonderful extension of sorts to the fabulous Kennebec Rail Trail, which is across the river. Except in this case, the trail is not paved, though still easy, and passes by interesting historic sites. It’s also slightly more pastoral than the trail
You can get your aesthetic political fix here, on Howard Hill’s 164-acres, because from the overlook you’ll have a lovely view of Maine’s State House. (The true summit is 100 feet higher, with no views.) One of the best places to access the roughly 3.7 miles of trails is from the end of Coos Lane,
Blue trail is the Kennebec Rail Trail; the short green trail on the other side of the river is the Greenway Trail. This is a great rails-to-trails project — it’s beautiful, and much of it is quiet and pastoral feeling despite being in a fairly commercial area and near a busy road. It has almost
This is a lovely place to ski, with several miles of rolling groomed trails. (There are additional snowshoeing/mountain biking trails, too. I’ll add these later.) These “rolls” include quite a few steep hills. Make sure to ski in the right direction on the one-way trails because I imagine people ski fast here. In total, this