1
Norton Preserve
Managed by Kittery Land Trust
189 acres2.9 mi of trail
Old Norton Road TrailBartlett Ridge TrailPatten Ridge TrailOld Farm Road TrailGrace's Woods Trail
Dogs on leashMapped in OpenStreetMap
Outdoors · Kittery
Kittery, ME parks, trails & bike paths
About 4.5% of Kittery is conserved land, roughly 2,176 acres. There are about 22 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Norton Preserve (2.9 mi), Kittery Town Forest (1.8 mi), and Fort Foster Park (1.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Kittery, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Kittery outdoors
Conserved land
4.5%
2,176 of 47,895 acres
Trails
22 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 14 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
22
208 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.7 mi
0.7 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
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.
2
Kittery Town Forest
Managed by Kittery Conservation Commision
69 acres1.8 mi of trail
Quimby Trail (yellow)Haley - Lewis Trail (blue)Red Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead
3
Fort Foster Park
Managed by Town of Kittery
94 acres1.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
4
Rogers Park
Managed by Kittery Conservation Comission
41 acres1.7 mi of trail
Leland TrailStonewall TrailOrchard Loop
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge
Managed by United States Fish and Wildlife Service;U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
527 acres1.6 mi of trail
Cutts Island Trail
Dog rules not recorded
6
Remick Preserve
Managed by Kittery Land Trust
77 acres1.4 mi of trail
Red TrailYellow Loop TrailWhite Trail
Dog rules not recorded
7
Brave Boat Headwaters Preserve
Managed by Kittery Land Trust
99 acres1.1 mi of trail
Red TrailWhite Trail
Dog rules not recorded
8
Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge
Managed by United States Fish and Wildlife Service
54 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 22 parks & preserves
- Gerrish Island431 ac · 0.4 mi trail · Directions
- Fort McClary State Historic Site23 ac · 0.3 mi trail · Directions
- Kittery Open Space38 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Emery Park6 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Seapoint Preserve3 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Fairchild Conservation Easement18 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Furbish35 ac
- Nooney Farm33 ac · Directions
- Cutts23 ac
- Thompson Easement10 ac
- Lynch South8 ac
- Cook Preserve4 ac · Directions
- John Paul Jones Memorial Park2 ac · Directions
- Memorial Park1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
2,176 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 790 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 27 of 71 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.7 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Basketball10
- Tennis9
- Baseball6
- Multi-sport2
- Tracks2
- Soccer2
- Football1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Kittery and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kittery | 4.5% | 22.4 mi | 22 |
| York | 11.6% | 105.2 mi | 22 |
| Eliot | 6.8% | 12.5 mi | 8 |
| Rye | 7.8% | 14.0 mi | 10 |
| Portsmouth | 12% | 20.7 mi | 23 |
| New Castle | 7.6% | 0.9 mi | 2 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Kittery'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 45.3-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.