QUICK TRAIL FACTS
- Preserve Size: 33 acres
- Trail Mileage: ~0.6-mile loop
- Pets: yes
- Difficulty: easy
- Sights: old stand of white pines
The Bowdoin Pines preserve, filled with towering white pines, abuts the college campus and includes a ~0.6 mile loop on its roughly 33 acres. The forest here is old growth, and in 1979 the state of Maine listed the Bowdoin Pines in its Register of Critical Areas. You can walk to the Edwards playing fields from the Pines (across the train tracks).
Directions: Most people access the trails behind Bowdoin’s Development Office, on the corner of Federal and Bath Road. The turn-off to the parking lot is off of Bath Road, right before you get to the lights and intersection with Federal Street (and Harpswell Road). You’ll see two parking areas near the start of the trails, on the side of the parking area farthest from the building.
