Me Trail Guides

Appalachian Trail through Notch

📍 Grafton Notch State Park, ME

Moderate 📏 4.0 Out-and-Back

This section of the Appalachian Trail through Grafton Notch links two of the park's most spectacular geological features…

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Bald Rock Mountain

📍 Camden Hills State Park, ME

Strenuous 📏 5.8 Out-and-Back

Bald Rock Mountain at 1,100 feet is one of the best-kept secrets in Camden Hills State Park, offering outstanding ocean …

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Baldpate Mountain West Peak

📍 Grafton Notch State Park, ME

Strenuous 📏 7.2 Out-and-Back

Baldpate Mountain's West Peak at 3,662 feet is one of the great open bald summits of western Maine, its massive exposed …

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Bar Harbor Shore Path

📍 Bar Harbor Village, Maine

Easy 📏 1.7 Out-and-Back

The Bar Harbor Shore Path is a flat, accessible walk along the rocky shoreline of Frenchman Bay directly from downtown B…

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Beehive Trail

📍 Sand Beach Trailhead, Maine

Strenuous 📏 1.6 Loop

The Beehive Trail is Acadia's most exhilarating short hike — a steep scramble up the exposed east face of the Beehive us…

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Birding Loop Trail

📍 Cobscook Bay State Park, ME

Easy 📏 2.5 Loop

Cobscook Bay State Park sits at the head of the Bay of Fundy system in far Downeast Maine, where the world's highest tid…

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Bog Trail

📍 Quoddy Head State Park, ME

Easy 📏 0.75 Loop

The Bog Trail at Quoddy Head State Park provides boardwalk access to one of the rarest and most fragile ecosystems in th…

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Coastal Trail

📍 Quoddy Head State Park, ME

Moderate 📏 4.5 Out-and-Back

The Coastal Trail at Quoddy Head State Park extends south from the lighthouse headland along dramatic sea cliffs, passin…

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Forest Trail

📍 Cobscook Bay State Park, ME

Easy 📏 3.0 Loop

The Forest Trail loops through the interior of Cobscook Bay State Park's mixed spruce-fir forest, connecting several tid…

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Gorham Mountain Trail

📍 Sand Beach Parking, Bar Harbor

Moderate 📏 3.4 Loop

Gorham Mountain Trail offers some of the most expansive summit views in Acadia National Park from a peak that is low eno…

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Hamlin Peak via North Basin

📍 Baxter State Park, ME

Strenuous 📏 10.0 Out-and-Back

Hamlin Peak, at 4,756 feet the second-highest summit in Maine, is reached via the spectacular North Basin Trail, which p…

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Katahdin Baxter Peak via AT

📍 Baxter State Park, Piscataquis County, Maine

Strenuous 📏 10.4 Out-and-Back

Katahdin Baxter Peak at 5267 feet is the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail at AT mile 2190, the culminating des…

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Katahdin Hunt Trail

📍 Baxter State Park, ME

Strenuous 📏 10.4 Out-and-Back

The Hunt Trail is the Appalachian Trail's final — and most dramatic — approach to Katahdin's 5,267-foot Baxter Peak, the…

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Maiden Cliff Trail

📍 Camden Hills State Park, ME

Strenuous 📏 2.6 Out-and-Back

Maiden Cliff is a dramatic 800-foot precipice on the western face of Megunticook Mountain overlooking the freshwater exp…

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Mount Battie Summit Trail

📍 Camden Hills State Park, ME

Moderate 📏 3.5 Out-and-Back

Mount Battie at 800 feet is the defining landmark of Midcoast Maine, its stone summit tower rising directly above the pi…

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Perpendicular Trail to Mansell Mountain

📍 Long Pond Trailhead, Tremont

Strenuous 📏 5.2 Loop

The Perpendicular Trail on the Quietside of Acadia -- the western, less-visited portion of Mount Desert Island -- is a m…

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Shore Path

📍 Cobscook Bay State Park, ME

Easy 📏 1.5 Out-and-Back

The Shore Path at Cobscook Bay State Park follows the edge of a tidal cove that experiences some of the most extreme tid…

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South Turner Mountain

📍 Baxter State Park, ME

Strenuous 📏 7.4 Out-and-Back

South Turner Mountain offers some of the finest direct views of Katahdin's East Face and Pamola Peak from any trail in B…

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Table Rock Trail

📍 Grafton Notch State Park, ME

Strenuous 📏 2.4 Out-and-Back

Table Rock is a dramatically overhanging granite slab perched on the western wall of Grafton Notch, offering a vertigo-i…

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West Quoddy Head Loop

📍 Quoddy Head State Park, ME

Easy 📏 2.5 Loop

West Quoddy Head is the easternmost point of land in the contiguous United States, a bold granite headland jutting into …

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Acadia Carriage Road Network -- Jordan Pond to Eagle Lake

📍 Jordan Pond House, Bar Harbor

Moderate 📏 12.0 Loop

The carriage road circuit linking Jordan Pond to Eagle Lake represents the finest multi-mile bike ride in Acadia Nationa…

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Carriage Roads Loop — Eagle Lake

📍 Eagle Lake Trailhead, Bar Harbor

Moderate 📏 6.0 Loop

John D. Rockefeller Jr. funded and built 45 miles of broken-stone carriage roads through Acadia in the early 20th centur…

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