This is an unusual and wonderful preserve to explore. What was a former excavation pit by the parking lot has been transformed by the Kennebunkport Land Trust, many donors, and many volunteers into a bucolic park with easy trails around a spring-fed pool. The pond is lined with stones and high banks planted with native
After visiting the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center, a living history museum and farm, you can walk its short but interesting paths. They are wide, like old carriage trails, and bring you to a neat spot by two spring-fed reflecting pools, called the Pools of Simeon, dug out in 1903. After walking to these pools,
I am sure the views are stunning from the top of this 2,245-foot mountain (elevation gain 1,635 ft.), but when I reached the open ledgy summit, I got caught in a rain squall and could see nothing but clouds and the droplets of water streaming down my glasses. But my friend hiked Zircon on a
These trails seemed to have been created with Nordic skiing in mind, and they are groomed in the winter (with no fee). Some of them are quite hilly — particularly one called Oscar’s Folly. All together, there are about 4.1 miles of well-marked, rolling trails here. The most beautiful point is the little loop by
Trails in orange indicate winter-only, as they’re too wet the rest of the year. Miles of walking here! An “eternal spring!” where water bubbles up from the ground. And a wide stream that has both rapids and slow, wide, meandering sections. I loved my walk here on a sharp December day with low glinting sun