In recent years, the Butler Conservation Fund has created two extraordinary outdoor facilities in Maine: Penobscot River Trails in Grindstone and Cobscook Shores in the Cobscook Bay area of Washington County. I’ve had the good fortune to hike the Cobscook Shores trails and have benefited from multiple excursions biking and skiing the PRT. When BCF […]
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
RAGGED MOUNTAIN Public access to the extensive Round the Mountain Trail took a giant step forward this week with the opening of the Thorndike Brook Trailhead, at 223 Hope Street, in Hope, just overlapping the Rockport town line. And with it came the official
Coastal Mountains Land Trust announcement that the first 5.5 miles of the Round the Mountain Trail is now open for hiking, running and biking.
And as far as trailheads go, the Thorndike Brook Trailhead is a small park unto itself, with a sheltering kiosk designed by architect Gianne Conard and built by Wayne Ruesswick and Cedarworks, with lumber donated by Hammond Lumber.