A Trail in orange; Round Top Mountain in blue; B Trail and Long Pond Trail in pink, accessible Homestead Trail in lavender. The A Trail, which brings you up McGaffey Mountain and shares a parking lot with Round Top Mountain and is one of several hikes in the 6,800-acre Kennebec Highlands, has been created for
The Sanders Hill trail offers a relatively easy, gradual climb, and a satisfying 3-mile loop, but the views aren’t as nice as they are elsewhere in the 6,800-acre Kennebec Highlands. But Beaver Brook, which you follow for some of the time, is quite pretty. In addition to a well-blazed, well-maintained hiking trail, there are unimproved
The Mount Phillip Trail, maintained by 7 Lakes Alliance, offers a relatively easy hike to a nice view of Great Pond from its 755-foot summit, where there is a a comfortable place to take it all in from a beautifully carved stone seat for one! Others can sit on the ledge. The 1.4-mile loop (elevation
“The Mountain” offers a nice, woodsy 2.4-mile loop with a gentle climb, and is a popular local hike. (You can cut your distance by taking shortcuts.) There are two decent lookouts over Long Pond on the western side of the loop, at small open ledges (see the land trust’s map below for the viewpoints, marked
A short climb to the 745-foot summit of French Mountain leads to a gorgeous view (elevation gain ~245 ft.). It’s one of several little mountains in this area, the 6,800-acre Kennebec Highlands. I am sure this is a very popular spot, as many of the little hikes in the Kennebec Highland area are, but I