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Hiking in Maine: Sunkhaze wildlife refuge rises up to provide a peaceful, year-round adventure


Hiking in Maine: Sunkhaze wildlife refuge rises up to provide a peaceful, year-round adventure
Eight miles of trails provide hikers, snowshoers and cross-country skiers year-round access at Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.
By CAREY KISH
Carey Kish photo
A few miles east of the Penobscot River in the town of Milford is a great expanse of wild country, an interesting mix of bogs, wetlands, meadows and floodplain woodlands. The Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge encompasses this ecological melting pot of landscapes, some 11,500 acres in all, including one of the largest peatlands in Maine.
Eight miles of trails provide hikers, snowshoers and cross-country skiers year-round access to the refuge. Carter Meadow Trail, Oak Point Trail and Johnson Brook Trail each depart from trailheads along County Road and lead to the edge of the open interior, where the namesake Sunkhaze Stream meanders for 5 placid miles through the heart of the refuge. ....

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