QUICK TRAIL FACTS
- Preserve Size: 9 acres
- Trail Mileage: ~.8 miles in network
- Pets: yes
- Difficulty: easy
- Sights: old-growth hemlocks, old graveyard
People living close to this path of old-growth hemlock forest are lucky — it’s quiet, dark, cool, and restful. The preserve is not big — about nine acres — but it’s lovely, protected by the Bonney Woods Corporation, which says it’s Maine’s oldest nonprofit.
At one end of the park is an old family graveyard. The trails are unmarked, but essentially, there is one roughly 0.3-mile main loop in the center of the woods that is intersected in two places with short cut-offs. Other trails connect to the streets around the small parcel. There must have been something about all the oldness in this woods (or maybe the thick leaf cover) but my GPS didn’t work well at all so my map is kind of wonky.
The main trails are flat, easy, and wide, very close to being universally accessible.
Directions: The main parking area is off Anson Street, before it becomes Titcomb Hill Road, roughly about .32 miles from Main Street (Route 27). Up the street is the trailhead for Flint Woods.
