1
Transfer Station Trails
Nature preserve
186 acres6.1 mi of trail
Gone Fishing 3Gone Fishing 4Gone Fishing 2Gone Fishing 5Bay Park Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead
Outdoors · Topsham
Topsham, ME parks, trails & bike paths
About 10% of Topsham is conserved land, roughly 2,346 acres. There are about 46 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Transfer Station Trails (6.1 mi), Cathance River Nature Preserve (4.3 mi), and Topsham Recreation Fields (1.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Topsham, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Topsham outdoors
Conserved land
10%
2,346 of 22,633 acres
Trails
46 mi
1.3 mi per sq mi · 16 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
22
242 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.0 mi
3.0 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
Cathance River Nature Preserve
Managed by Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust
234 acres4.3 mi of trail
Cathance River TrailRavine TrailHighland TrailHeath Round Loop TrailBarnes Leap Trail
No dogsMapped in OpenStreetMap
3
Topsham Recreation Fields
Park
75 acres1.6 mi of trail
Recreation Fields Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Bradley Pond Farm Preserve
Managed by Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust
129 acres1 mi of trail
Perimeter TrailUpper Loop Trail
No dogsMapped in OpenStreetMap
5
Tarbox Preserve
Managed by Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust
119 acres0.9 mi of trail
Tarbox Preserve Ravine TrailTarbox PreserveTarbox Preserve Picnic Point
Dog rules not recorded
6
Androscoggin Woods
Managed by Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust
72 acres0.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead
7
Rogers Property
Managed by Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust
31 acres0.9 mi of trail
Cathance River Trail (East)
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 22 parks & preserves
- Head of Tide Park10 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Merrymeeting Bay Wildlife Management Area426 ac
- Beatrice B. Baxter Memorial Forest182 ac
- Perry Property163 ac · Directions
- Robert Williams Preserve83 ac
- Topsham Town Forest67 ac
- Cow Island57 ac
- Mill Forest28 ac
- Muddy River Property13 ac
- Alora Drive12 ac
- Androscoggin Riverwalk Park12 ac · Directions
- Odell Property11 ac
- Little River Preserve5 ac
- Alan E. Hutchinson Wildlife Management Area4 ac
- Howard Property3 ac
Who protects the land
2,346 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 610 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 24 of 85 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes3.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes1.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball8
- Soccer6
- Tennis6
- Football2
- Softball1
- Equestrian1
- Basketball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Topsham and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Topsham'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 25.1-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.