1
Fogg Island Preserve
Managed by 7 Lakes Alliance
728 acres2.5 mi of trail
Snowmobile Trail 25
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon, ME parks, trails & bike paths
About 4.4% of Mount Vernon is conserved land, roughly 1,226 acres. There are about 18 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Fogg Island Preserve (2.5 mi) and Ezra Smith Wildlife Conservation Area (1.4 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Mount Vernon, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Mount Vernon outdoors
Conserved land
4.4%
1,226 of 27,606 acres
Trails
18 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 6 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
10
714 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
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
Ezra Smith Wildlife Conservation Area
Managed by Kennebec Land Trust
164 acres1.4 mi of trail
Ezra Smith Wildlife Conservationi Area Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
George Bucknam Wildlife Management Area
Managed by Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife
106 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Taylor Pond Access
Nature preserve
92 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 10 parks & preserves
- Long Pond Access49 ac
- Ingham Stream Preserve29 ac
- Torsey Shore Conservation Area20 ac
- Echo Lake Boat Access2 ac · Directions
- Parker Pond Headland Preserve1 ac
- Taylor Pond Boat Access1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
1,226 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 123 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 7 of 24 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
- Tennis15
- Basketball4
- Baseball2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Mount Vernon and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Mount Vernon'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 27.9-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.