1
Purinton Homestead Conservation Area
Managed by Androscoggin Land Trust
139 acres1.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Bowdoin
Bowdoin, ME parks, trails & bike paths
About 7.4% of Bowdoin is conserved land, roughly 2,049 acres. There are about 20 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Purinton Homestead Conservation Area (1.4 mi), Bradley Pond Farm Preserve (0.7 mi), and Caesar Pond WMA (0.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Bowdoin, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Bowdoin outdoors
Conserved land
7.4%
2,049 of 27,706 acres
Trails
20 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
643 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 mi off-road paths
Conserved land is a share of the whole town area. Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
Map
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
Tap a number or a place below to zoom in© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk
Parks & preserves with trails
Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
2
Bradley Pond Farm Preserve
Managed by Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust
38 acres0.7 mi of trail
Perimeter TrailUpper Loop Trail
No dogsMapped in OpenStreetMap
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
3
Caesar Pond Wildlife Management Area
Managed by Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
536 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Dow Property
Managed by Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust
7 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land
2,049 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 54 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 6 of 14 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Nearby
Bowdoin and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bowdoin | 7.4% | 20.2 mi | 4 |
| Lisbon | 6.5% | 8.7 mi | 11 |
| Richmond | 9% | 40.7 mi | 6 |
| Topsham | 10.4% | 45.5 mi | 22 |
| Bowdoinham | 11.3% | 39.3 mi | 7 |
| Litchfield | 2.6% | 15.1 mi | 13 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Bowdoin's trails yet. Muddy, icy, a bridge out, where to park: a quick post helps the next person.
Sources: trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US). Measured against the Census town boundary.
How we measure
"Trails" are OpenStreetMap paths, bridleways, public tracks and unpaved footways, plus footways inside a park or preserve or on a named trail route. Sidewalks are left out. Areas are counted on a 25.7-meter grid, so overlapping parcels count once. "Conserved" includes conservation easements, which protect land from development but are usually private property. Trailheads are the nearest marked trailhead, public parking lot or information board within about 150 meters of a preserve. Dog rules come from OpenStreetMap when someone has tagged them; otherwise we show what's typical for the land manager, or say the rules aren't recorded.