Outdoors · Dresden

Dresden, ME parks, trails & bike paths

About 5.1% of Dresden is conserved land, roughly 1,073 acres. There are about 5.5 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Pownalborough Court House Trails (1.5 mi).

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

At a glance

Dresden outdoors

Conserved land
5.1%
1,073 of 21,119 acres
Trails
5.5 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
4
652 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

Pownalborough Court House Trails

Park
70 acres1.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Pownalborough Court House

Park
17 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Earle R. Kelly Wildlife Management Area

Managed by Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
338 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Green Point Wildlife Management Area

Managed by Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife
300 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

1,073 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State fish & wildlife
858 ac
Other state land
262 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
106 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
92 ac
Not recorded
167 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 123 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 12 of 26 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

  • Baseball2
  • Volleyball1

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

Nearby

Dresden and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Dresden5.1%5.5 mi4
Richmond9%40.7 mi6
Wiscasset7.8%12.0 mi8
Alna13.8%6.2 mi4
Woolwich7.1%6.1 mi5
Pittston0.3%2.9 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Dresden'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 25.6-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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