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Eaton Farm Preserve
Managed by Chewonki Foundation
200 acres1.8 mi of trail
Back River Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Wiscasset
Wiscasset, ME parks, trails & bike paths
About 7.8% of Wiscasset is conserved land, roughly 1,365 acres. There are about 12 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Eaton Farm Preserve (1.8 mi) and Sortwell Memorial Forest (1.3 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Wiscasset, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Wiscasset outdoors
Conserved land
7.8%
1,365 of 17,585 acres
Trails
12 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
8
352 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
Sortwell Memorial Forest
Managed by New England Forestry Foundation, Inc.
97 acres1.3 mi of trail
Elderberry TrailHemlock TrailTall Pine TrailBlackberry Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Cushman Preserve
Managed by Chewonki Foundation
105 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Midcoast Conservancy Land
Managed by Midcoast Conservancy
47 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land
1,365 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 307 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 11 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
- Tennis8
- Baseball4
- Tracks4
- Basketball2
- Soccer2
- Softball2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Wiscasset and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Wiscasset'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 26.4-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.