Outdoors · Canton

Canton, ME parks, trails & bike paths

About 8.5% of Canton is conserved land, roughly 1,646 acres. There are about 13 miles of mapped trails.

Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Canton, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

At a glance

Canton outdoors

Conserved land
8.5%
1,646 of 19,397 acres
Trails
13 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
6
1,382 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

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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.
1

Academy Hill Conservation Area

Managed by Androscoggin Land Trust
401 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Alden Hill Conservation Area

Managed by Androscoggin Land Trust
306 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Canton Rivershore Conservation Area

Managed by Androscoggin Land Trust
249 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Stevens Island Rivershore Preserve

Managed by Androscoggin Land Trust
237 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

1,646 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
1,626 ac
Regional agency
137 ac
State fish & wildlife
57 ac
State parks
19 ac
Regional Water Districts
11 ac
Not recorded
1,173 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 14 of 32 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

Canton and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Canton8.5%13.2 mi6
Peru0.2%23.0 mi0
Jay2.5%26.7 mi8
Hartford0.6%15.8 mi2
Livermore4.2%4.6 mi3
Dixfield0.1%22.1 mi0
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Canton'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 23.8-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.

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