This small network of easy trails across from Mount Blue High School seems to be mostly used by the cross country teams at the high school, but it is also great for anyone who wants to enjoy quiet wooded trails not far from town. From the parking area, a variety of mowed trails criss-cross the
This short trail passes along a brook and through wooded wetlands between the Dover-Foxcroft town office and the SeDoMoCha School. The northeastern end of the trail is home to a storybook walk and an outdoor classroom/picnic area. The best parking and access to the trail is at the town office, where the trail starts next
Student athletes, especially the runners, train on these wide, looping trails and rolling hills, and the cross-country teams holds their meets here. The trails also seem as if they’d be fun to ski. All together, there’s about 1 mile of paths behind the school playing fields, an area that includes a a little forested wetland
By Sam Shirley Located behind Cascade Brook Elementary School, this small trail network provides easy walking through mature forest, perfect for kids! The trails are wide and many are gravel surfaced, but some steeper slopes would be challenging for strollers or wheelchair users. The trails have excellent signage and there are distance markers along the
This path is an amazing amenity for the townspeople of Lincoln — and for visitors! Behind the playing fields, tennis and pickleball courts, and running track of Mattanawcook Academy and Ellen P. Burr Elementary School, you can follow a 1.4-mile packed gravel path. It is flat, easy, and pleasant, with stretches in the forest and
By Sam Shirley This short trail connects downtown Kingfield with Kingfield Elementary School, linking the ball field with the town park. Starting from the town park at its eastern end, the trail passes through some woods behind houses before reaching the fields around the elementary school. While not surfaced, the trail is wide, flat, and
This trail has been lovingly created, with lots of informative nature panels along the way. (A few had fallen, but were still readable.) A little bridge crosses a swale. For the elementary students, there’s an outdoor classroom with benches. You can tell the path is not often walked but it’s charming. The two little loops
The PAWS Trail acronym stands for Prescott and Washington School Trail, rather than anything dog related. Although it’s a fine trail for a pup! The trail is a joint effort by the Washington Recreational Trail Committee, Washington Lakes Watershed Association and Prescott Memorial School. The blue-blazed trail begins behind the school’s baseball field, where you’ll
Behind the Skowhegan Area High School, you can pick up a public trail system that brings you along mowed paths and through a patch of woods to a bog along Currier Brook. When I visited in 2024, there was, at the edge of the wetland, a derelict observation deck/picnic shelter, broken and rotting, that was
The short one-way Cattail Trail links playing fields with Lawrence High School. It’s wide and packed gravel — almost wheelchair accessible save for some roots. Find the trail at the edge of the playing fields, at both ends. On my visit, the signs were tucked away a bit, so were a bit hard to see.