Outdoors · Searsmont

Searsmont, ME parks, trails & bike paths

About 3.4% of Searsmont is conserved land, roughly 835 acres. There are about 16 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Gibson Preserve (2.6 mi).

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

At a glance

Searsmont outdoors

Conserved land
3.4%
835 of 24,888 acres
Trails
16 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
507 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

Gibson Preserve

Managed by Georges River Land Trust
153 acres2.6 mi of trail
Gibson Preserve Nature TrailNorth TrailAccessible TrailYellow Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

James Dorso Wildlife Management Area

Managed by Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
414 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Porter Preserve

Managed by Georges River Land Trust
13 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

835 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
807 ac
State fish & wildlife
362 ac
State parks
2 ac
Not recorded
236 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 338 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 9 of 20 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

  • Equestrian1
  • Baseball1

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

Next door

Searsmont and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Searsmont3.4%16.1 mi3
Lincolnville23.3%32.2 mi10
Appleton14.1%9.5 mi6
Morrill1.1%0.9 mi1
Belmont7.4%0.2 mi1
Montville20.3%18.2 mi8
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Searsmont'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 29-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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