QUICK TRAIL FACTS
- Preserve Size: 23 acres
- Trail Mileage: ~1.8 miles of trail
- Pets: yes
- Difficulty: easy
- Sights: Damariscotta River, meadows, orchard, shell middens
Universally accessible trails in red.
Round Top Farm is like the younger sibling to Salt Bay Farm. It offers sweeping meadows down to Damariscotta River, interpretative signs, an apple orchard (the apples are delicious!), and a shell midden site where Native Americans tossed oyster shells and other debris over a period of 1,000 years.
Additionally, the Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust has added a beautiful 0.6-mile (and growing) universally accessible trail, of packed gravel, that connects the two parking areas and Church Street. The rest of the trails on the preserve are gentle, too, with much of them following mown paths skirting the edges of meadow.
Directions: Less than a mile and a half north of downtown Damariscotta along Main Street (Business Route 1) opposite the Great Salt Bay School. From McDonald’s, at the junction of Biscay Road and Main Street, proceed north exactly 0.3 miles, passing Round Top Farm on the way.
