Outdoors · Columbia

Columbia, ME parks, trails & bike paths

About 2.5% of Columbia is conserved land, roughly 591 acres. There are about 17 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Columbia outdoors

Conserved land
2.5%
591 of 23,269 acres
Trails
17 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
named on the map
Bike routes
3.8 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 3.8 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

12
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

Great Heath Public Reserved Land

Managed by Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands
364 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Saco Falls Town Park

Park
7 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

591 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State parks
721 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
262 ac
Other state land
55 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
40 ac
Not recorded
27 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 129 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 8 of 19 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 paths3.8 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Next door

Columbia and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Columbia2.5%16.6 mi2
Columbia Falls4.8%6.7 mi1
Cherryfield10%18.5 mi6
Harrington4.2%2.7 mi5
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Columbia'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 24.2-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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