This is a beautiful preserve and a great place to listen to insects and birds on a languid summer day! The 25 acres abut 4,000 acres protected in the Steep Falls Wildlife Management Area and offer short, flat trails on sandy terrain for pleasant strolls and wildlife watching. There is even a natural sand pit
The cross-country trails around campus are well taken care of, smooth and wide enough for sturdy wheelchairs (watch out for an occasional rock, root, and minor incline, though). The highlight of the walk is the view from the college’s Sebago Lake beach. On a clear day, Mt. Washington is visible, floating like a cloud above the
In the woods abutting Randall Orchards, a working apple farm, you can make either a 1.5-mile loop or a 2-mile loop on land protected by the Presumpscot Regional Land Trust. (Be mindful if you do the 1.5-mile loop that you don’t miss the trail when it intersects with the spur to the Hannaford grocery store.
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 500-acre reserve (part of 1,700 protected acres around Sebago Lake) offers a wonderful network of well-marked, easy trails, about 13.5 miles all together. One of the highlights of this area is the little clusters of ponds known as Otter Ponds. These were formed by glacial ice that, once melted, created steep-sided “kettlehole” depressions. The
This is the beginning (or the end) of the long Sebago to the Sea Trail. This leg — section 1 — has roughly 3.5 miles of trails and is fabulous! Mostly because it takes you to a private little beach on Sebago Lake that is just outside of the no-swimming zone (so you can actually swim).