Outdoors · Cumberland

Cumberland, ME parks, trails & bike paths

About 9.3% of Cumberland is conserved land, roughly 1,545 acres. There are about 36 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Twin Brook Recreation Area (5.8 mi), Rines Forest (5 mi), and Knight's Pond Preserve (4.7 mi).

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

At a glance

Cumberland outdoors

Conserved land
9.3%
1,545 of 16,693 acres
Trails
36 mi
1.4 mi per sq mi · 20 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
21
179 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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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Twin Brook Recreation Area

Managed by Town of Cumberland
223 acres5.8 mi of trail
Wilderness TrailHill TrailInner Loop TrailMorton TrailRavine Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Rines Forest

Nature preserve
310 acres5 mi of trail
Cross Cumberland TrailCross Cumberrland TrailWaterfall Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Knight's Pond Preserve

Managed by Chebeague and Cumberland Land Trust
215 acres4.7 mi of trail
White TrailBlue TrailSnowmobile TrailRed TrailYellow Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
4

Cumberland Town Forest

Nature preserve
132 acres2.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5

Greely Woods

Nature preserve
45 acres1.2 mi of trail
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Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
6

Farwell Forest

Nature preserve
50 acres0.9 mi of trail
Cross Cumberland Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
7

Wayne and Halvor Merrill Forest

Managed by Small Woodland Owners Association of Maine
98 acres0.6 mi of trail
Moonlight Sno-SkimmersFalmouth Sno-Voyagers
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
8

Town Open Space

Nature preserve
149 acres0.4 mi of trail
Cross Cumberland Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 21 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 21 parks & preserves
Twin Brook Recreation Area223 acres · 5.8 mi of trail · Town of Cumberland
Rines Forest310 acres · 5 mi of trail
Knight's Pond Preserve215 acres · 4.7 mi of trail · Chebeague and Cumberland Land Trust
Cumberland Town Forest132 acres · 2.5 mi of trail
Greely Woods45 acres · 1.2 mi of trail
Farwell Forest50 acres · 0.9 mi of trail
Wayne and Halvor Merrill Forest98 acres · 0.6 mi of trail · Small Woodland Owners Association of Maine
Town Open Space149 acres · 0.4 mi of trail
Broad Cove Reserve18 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Read Family Farm & Woods CCLT Easement52 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · Chebeague and Cumberland Land Trust, Inc.
Who protects the land

1,545 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
1,384 ac
Regional agency
843 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
78 ac
State fish & wildlife
37 ac
Not recorded
645 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 387 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 20 of 42 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

Courts & fields

  • Pickleball5
  • Tracks5
  • Baseball4
  • Tennis4
  • Football2
  • Basketball2
  • Softball2

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Nearby

Cumberland and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Cumberland9.3%35.9 mi21
North Yarmouth12.6%25.3 mi30
Yarmouth6.5%31.0 mi24
Falmouth13.8%104.4 mi49
Gray5%40.6 mi13
Windham4.3%32.8 mi15
Chebeague Island1.6%4.6 mi16
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Cumberland'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 28.4-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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