<span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span>This section of the Cross Town Trail, or CCT, is a 1.5-mile straight shot from New Portland Road to Hutcherson Drive. It’s flat and smooth — so very easy walking. The trail follows the former York and Cumberland Railroad track, which was removed in the
The crowds were out on a relatively warmish Saturday on these wide, smooth paths. Some with puppies! The popularity of this wonderful trail system — which edges a sweep of fields before making a couple of loops in an older forest — seems to indicate a big need for more universally accessible trails in beautiful
This 36-acre preserve with old red oaks, hemlocks, thickets and a wetland can be explored via a 1.1-mile looped trail. Directions: Park on the north side of Flaggy Meadow Road in Gorham.
This 19-acre preserve, conserved by the Presumpscot Regional Land Trust, has a 0.6-mile trail that loops through woods and along streams. Directions: Access to the Preserve is from the northeast side of Osborne Road off of Route 202 in Gorham. You can park on the shoulders of this busy road, but be careful.
Behind the Gorham USM campus is a web of trails — some of them winding single track for mountain bikers, others wider and nicer for walking. It is very easy to get turned around and disoriented in here! The trails are mostly unmarked, and there are many of them. It’s helpful to use the large field
If you park at the parking area closer to the dam, you’ll see a pedestrian bridge crossing the old Oxford-Cumberland canal. Walk across to explore a little island tucked between the canal and the river. If you turn left, you can watch the river rushing over bedrock ledge, forming a low cascade of whitewater. If
This trail theoretically goes from Sebago Lake to Portland, but a chunk of it is not yet complete. So you have to ride along a few roads or walk on abandoned railroad beds. But there is a wonderful system already in place, particularly close to Sebago Lake. There you can ride along a mostly paved
This forested area filled with pines is cared for by the Gorham Conservation Commission. It has about 1.5 miles of walking paths, and a wetland and pretty pond along Tannery Brook that looks like it might be good for ice skating (when the ice is thick and safe!). The trails are mostly well marked, wide, and
Gorham seems to be a destination for mountain bikers, and this trail system should please a few of them! The network close to the middle and high schools is well-maintained, well blazed, and pretty if you just want to walk here, and it is also connected to a large mountain biking trail system across Route 112. (You