QUICK TRAIL FACTS
- Preserve Size: 188 acres
- Trail Mileage: ~0.8 miles in network
- Pets: yes
- Difficulty: easy
- Sights: old-growth hemlocks, old graveyard
People living close to this path through a beautiful hemlock forest are lucky — it’s quiet, dark, cool and restful. The main trails are flat, easy and wide. At one end of the park is an old family graveyard.
The woods area is not big — about nine acres — but it’s lovely, protected by the Bonney Woods Corporation, which says it’s Maine’s oldest nonprofit. The Corporation also takes care of the large trail system across the street and calls the whole complex of protected woods and trails Powder House Hill Trails.
The trails in Bonney Woods were unmarked when I visited, but it’s easy to find your way around: there is a 0.3-mile main loop in the center of the woods 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.)
Directions: The main parking area is off Anson Street, before it becomes Titcomb Hill Road, roughly about .32 miles from Main Street (Route 27).
