Outdoors · Hope

Hope, ME parks, trails & bike paths

About 4% of Hope is conserved land, roughly 610 acres. There are about 2.8 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Hatchet Mountain Preserve (0.6 mi).

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

At a glance

Hope outdoors

Conserved land
4%
610 of 15,178 acres
Trails
2.8 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
6
349 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

Hatchet Mountain Preserve

Managed by Coastal Mountains Land Trust
32 acres0.6 mi of trail
Hatchet Mountain Preserve Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Bald Mountain Preserve

Managed by Coastal Mountains Land Trust
137 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Mirror Lake Conservation Easement

Nature preserve
109 acres0.2 mi of trail
RMT TrailThorndike Brook Trail (Georges Highland Path)
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Grassy Pond Conservation Easement

Nature preserve
24 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 6 parks & preserves
  • True Park13 ac
  • Ragged Mountain Preserve2 ac
Who protects the land

610 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
1,016 ac
Joint
20 ac
Not recorded
145 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 416 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 12 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 paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Next door

Hope and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Hope4%2.8 mi6
Appleton14.1%9.5 mi6
Lincolnville23.3%32.2 mi10
Union5.2%5.7 mi8
Camden24.4%35.1 mi21
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Hope'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 22.3-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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